"mpt daily" with chuck todd starts now. ♪ welcome to hump day. "meet the press daily." in washington president trump will speak at the white house in an athe effort to address concerns about the spread of the coronavirus coming as the administration appears to be sending mixed messages about the severity of the threat and how prepared we are for dealing with it. we'll have more on that story later in the hour. but we begin with the fallout

from last night's messy, combative an at times attack debate. bernie sanders was attacked and some of the clashes escalating. the field seems to be employing a spaghetti at the wall strategy against sanders. lob as many lines of attack as possible and hope some of them, any of them, stick. >> vladimir putin thinks that donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping you get elected. >> bernie and i want to see universal health care but bernie's plan doesn't explain how to get there, doesn't show how to get allies into it. >> if you think the last four years has been kay ychaotic, divisive, tox ickes, exhaustive imagine spending the better part of 2020 with bernie sanders versus donald trump. >> walking dishes here is mother emanuel church. nine people shot dead by a white

supremacist. bernie voted five times against the brady bill. >> today bloomberg and biden took shots at sanders. here he is with craig melvin in south carolina. >> the idea that there's going to be this revolution, americans aren't looking for revolution. they're looking for progress. >> mr. vice president, some seem keen on a revolution. >> well some do but look at the numbers. we always talk about the great increase in participation. he's not coming anywhere near generating the participation of young people of barack in 2008. >> catch more from that interview tomorrow morning on the "today" show. here's sanders going after biden at a rally earlier today. >> the if you're trump, you can't run a conventional campaign. joe is a friend of mine and a decent guy but that is not the

voting record or the history that is going to excite people, bring them in to the political process and beat trump. >> it is about the most extensive electability argument we have seen as of late. jim clyburn will join me to discuss the race. but whether any of that change it is ptrajectory of the race w have to wait an see. let's dive in. mike memoli, ali vitale with warren. spooking to a representative of the sanders cam pan later in the hour an starting with mike memoli and the biden campaign. so -- the biden campaign has to feel good but i saw they did a big six-figure buy in super

tuesday. and the words big and six figure usually don't go together anymore in american politics. >> reporter: yeah. chuck, how much does six figuring buy you in dozen super tuesday states? not a lot. the word to describe it is strategic. >> of course. >> reporter: focusing they say on the viewership where they can maximize viewership of african-american voters in those super tuesday states and what they're hoping to get the bounce out of south carolina for to send the mess and that he is the one with the strongest base of support among the african-american community going forward. it's interesting, chuck, in terms of what we have seen since last night in the debate at the earliest stages of the campaign biden in trouble in the primary he tried to go above the race and try to engage with president trump. float above the democratic primary fray and now floating above the rest of the field and

engage with bernie sanders. you see it with craig melvin interview and on the stump today. what people want is results, they want some security in their life and what he thinks he is bringing to voters. >> all right. mike memoli on the trail with joe biden. let's check in now with the bloomberg campaign. josh letterman is all over that campaign. so, josh, it's not as bad as the first debate performance. i know they're trying to say he was much better. it seemed to me he was still, still getting his sea legs. do folks privately acknowledge that? >> reporter: they did. there's definitely kengs to work out, particularly the answer of stop and frisk, stillen sufficient for people saying you're defending the underlying policy is fine but got out of control, went too far, that's not the way that a lot of other

people in the democratic party want to hear michael bloomberg talk about this. overall michael bloomberg campaign officials breathed a big sigh of relief after last night's debate performance but that debate isn't going to change the fact that bernie sanders is the front-runner clearly now. the bloomberg campaign acknowledging that openly and that he is quickly amassing an insurmountable delegate league and michael bloomberg not on the ballot here in south carolina over the weekend and it is really up to him on super tuesday to try to build up his own -- any delegates to get in order to prevent this from going out of control. >> i have to say i'm sure you thought the same thing. i thought the bloomberg campaign had something big to try to pivot off this debate on, whether it was to target sanders or to sort of ramp up their super tuesday efforts, it feels alike they haven't figured out how to recover from last week. >> reporter: i think that's

right, chuck. they have settled on a couple of lines of attack against sanders think they are particularly effective. chief among them, the gun control issue and we saw the bloomberg campaign today tweeting out basically seeming to assign responsibility for the mass shooting in 2015 right here in charleston to bernie sanders saying it was the legacy of his gun control record that created the conditions for that so they think that particularly where the democratic base is right now that that is a very ripe issue for them but they seem to go from issue to issue to figure out how to pivot forward. >> yeah. the mountain of opposition research that they talked about hasn't figured out how to use it in a democratic primary. josh letterman, thank you. let's move to ali vitali and team warren and trying to understand what was elizabeth warren's goal last night? because at some points it seems as if she hasn't gotten over the

feelings of bloomberg and then some ways it almost distracted from her focus. >> reporter: well, chuck, because every second that she was talking about michael bloomberg on that stage she wasn't going after the front-runner and bernie sanders has frankly had the cover of michael bloomberg on that stage to take away some of the attacks from him because it's good politics for almost everyone else on the stage to go after michael bloomberg, elizabeth warren among them. the campaign feels like he is a perfect foil for her and she did something on the campaign trail we haven't seen and on the debate stage and say that she is the best progressive option in the field going so far as to say she likes bernie sanders and his policies but she thinks that she would be the best president. that's new for her, a new line of attack and it is a needle she has to thread because we know that her support doesn't exclusively come from the sanders part of the party and

for a lot of candidates in the race is what happens come super tuesday? there's quite a few people in the field who have home states that are voting on super tuesday. compare and contrast. i asked klobuchar last night will you win your home state? she said absolutely. i asked elizabeth warren with oklahoma and massachusetts, are you going to win? they're not setting the expectation. >> elizabeth warren felt like someone worrying of a con sit won't sy of 2024 rather than 2020. >> huh. >> big thank you to the road warriors. i'm joined by contributor betsy woodruff swan, and spokesman for john boehner, michael steel and donna edward. donna, this is your party. i'm gong to let you go first. i'm going to start, though, by getting you to react to a

feistier joe biden. we had a debate. was it a good night for biden? here's the mash-up. >> i'm not out of time. he spoke over time an i'm going to talk. >> stop, stop. >> you knew when you bought it they had done that. >> i am the author of the bill to close the boyfriend loophole that says that domestic abusers can't get an ak-47. >> i wrote that law. >> that bill along with -- you didn't write that bill. >> i did write that bill. >> okay. you did that. >> out of the hands of people who abuse their -- >> we'll have a fact check. >> look at the fact check. >> oh my goodness. >> and i have to admit that was uncomfortable for me because what biden didn't realize is they were talking about -- past each other. they were talking about the same thing. she was talking about an amendment to the bill he once wrote. >> right. yeah. >> not a good moment. >> primaries are like this sometimes because the differences are very, very tiny. >> is this a --

>> i thought joe biden had a good, strong night last night. he wasn't going to allow himself to be talked over. you know? he jumped in when -- at other times and other debates he raised his hand and didn't assert himself and i think he made strong arguments compelling arguments for why he should be the nominee and it was interesting because i think the gun attacks against that bloomberg was making against bernie i think played into joe biden's hand because he has such a strong record there but i thought he had a really good night. look. he needed to have a good night and then today was a good day for him with the clyburn endorsement. >> what did you, betsy, make of how bernie handled being attacked? >> he was more defensive mode than we have seen from him. that willingness to go on offense of the cuba issue was an interesting moment. >> trumpian. i say this not as a -- that's

what donald trump would have done. you think this is a negative? watch me. i'll flip it on you. >> this like resolute refusal to apologize and if trump watched that he would have thought bernie handled it perfectly. >> that's right. this is the first time that bernie today at that rally, that's no pushover for donald trump, michael steel. >> he is -- look at it this way. two ways. sanders' advantage in some ways the say as trump. unflinchingly consistent for decade after decade after decade on a handful of really big issues that he clearly cares about. free college. medicare for all. that makes him impervious to oppo. if you learn about what he wrote about children or what he wrote about cuba or said in the soviet union in the '80s, with younger voters, if you didn't grow up in the cold war context that means nothing to you. everyone agrees with -- everyone

who supports him likes where he is on these issues. i do think, however, conventional wisdom is right. he is a terrible candidate to have at the top of the ticket for congressional democrats. >> donna edward, the head scratcher for me last night elizabeth warren. she couldn't sort of -- couldn't stop going after bloomberg. and then it may have dawned on me. why she can't do it. here's the excerpt i think she gave it away. >> in 2016, he dumped $12 million into the pennsylvania senate race to help re-elect an anti-choice right wing republican senator and i just want to say. the woman challenger was terrific and lost by a single point. in 2012, he scooped in to try to defend another republican senator against a woman challenger. that was me. it didn't work. but he tried hard. >> donna, you have run for

office so i hope you can give voice to this especially in your first race, you remember everybody with you and wasn't, don't you? >> to this day. >> my point is -- >> you don't get over it. >> don't get over it. that's what it felt like for me. she is not over that from 2012. >> you fight really hard for it but i think something else was going on with elizabeth warren. a couple things. one, she can attack not even attack bernie but contrast herself with bernie because at the end of the day she's a progressive and she is going to need the voters if she is the candidate. the other thing that's going on is that, you know, she believes that bloomberg is a greater threat to the democratic party. >> yes, she does. >> she does. and this is -- >> made that crystal clear. >> if she doesn't do it she is not gong do leave it to the others on the stage to do that for her. >> pete buttigieg, on one hand

he had the probably line that resonated the most with the widest swath of viewers. i don't know what a whole year is like if sanders versus trump. one of those gulp moments for some people, some people probably loved it. he is yet to translate the good debate performances. >> he is trapped in sort of sharing platitudes about things, kind of general commentary of leadership and inspiration and togetherness. and doesn't -- >> sometimes he comes across as the posters. >> a little bit. >> success! >> there are some hallmark card moments with him. part of the reason there's just this dramatic juxtaposition between him and bernie sanders when's always talking about concrete, specific, quantifiable ways to improve people's alives. >> isn't this the basic problem that the non sanders people have trying to stop sanders?

bernie sanders stands for something. >> it's the reason people ask why is it young people, young people of color flocking to bernie sanders? i think to their mind he puts things in a simple context. he understands something. he has long held views. and he's not willing to back down from them and there's some -- you know, there are people who admire that and you can understand that. i think some of the same thing goes into the trump people. >> you guys tried to -- >> yeah. >> sell the softer version. he is unrealistic. i get you this. >> it doesn't work. look. if joe biden had the zip, mustard on the fastball, you could see a fight. >> probably wins it. >> a restoration versus revolution fight. i can go back to the good old days with barack and the rest of the field splintered, no one makes a compelling narrative against bernie. >> he doesn't have his fastball. >> he doesn't. >> he has junk pitches that make

people swing and miss. >> saging that 150 million people die of gun violence is just like, come on. >> making up the stuff. >> that's the question. are we too nitpicky on him? >> i think we're way more nitpicky than real voters are. they'll give him a pass on that. i think that for biden, south carolina is a different line and it's a different race from south carolina forward. he has to really -- >> he sounded like a candidate in south carolina. and that's what he had to do last night. so in that sense, that's i think why there's a consensus feeling he probably got the most out of the debate. ahead, the endorsements the candidates wanted and where it was headed. talking to congressman jim clyburn of why he is supporting joe biden and whether the backing will be enough for biden to win south carolina by enough to make it mean something. an later, controlling the coronavirus. as we wait to hear what the president will say, we'll get a

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so my request of all of you is not only to come out and vote. please, bring your friends, your neighbors, your family members. i believe that if we can put together the largest voter turnout for south carolina primary in the history of this state we're going to win here in south carolina. >> welcome back. it's a familiar ring from the senator, bernie sanders is hoping turnout to give him another primary victory on saturday. a win in south carolina over joe biden goes a long way to making sanders the preeffortive nominee. joining me is faiz sekour. start with the investment in south carolina. you guys are -- aren't a little bit in. you are all in.

how realistic do you think it is that you can win it? >> well, we are going to work hard to win it. that's all you can ask for. i think we are closing the gap, chuck. the recent public polling looks like we are gaining momentum in the state. i think the debate is a net positive for us. defiant and strong bernie sanders ready to take on donald trump is what you get out of that and we've got a lot of people, i'm bringing people into state from other prior states to do get out the vote operations and we are strong on pay communications and tv here so we'll give it everything we got. >> i'm guessing you think the margin matters, too. even if you don't win a close second you think sends a message? >> yeah, of course. obviously, chuck, there's other candidates in this state and to do very well and look stronger is a message in itself, as well. we are building a multiracial,

multigenerational working class coalition and evidenced by the first three contests and hope south carolina demonstrate its appeal of bernie sanders to different types of people. >> i think the expansion of the coalition to include latinos out west if that continues is an important trend for you guys and i think a pretty good potential pat coalition for you in texas and california but one of the big promises he's made is turnout. getting new voters. that is one thing that's not happened yet. what is your explanation for that? >> so we had record breaking turnout in new hampshire, in nevada. at least in the early going in the early caucuses. i feel like -- stronger than i should say the last time around. right? >> not '08. not topped '08 in fairness. >> in nevada, right? but in new hampshire it did top

'08 and when you have super high turnout levels everybody contributes into it and reflect back on 2008 it was obama, hillary clinton, john edwards together bringing out lots of people and hopefully people going to get much more engaged over the next coming contests as we look at our turnout numbers, generating the enthusiasm we hoped for and surprising that in general other campaigns aren't also motivating people to come to the polls assuming that other people also come out and then we would win some -- >> but you saw -- i understand but you did see that "the new york times" analysis showing that your coalition isn't benefiting of where -- there shall places turnout is up and not benefited you guys. >> yeah. i disagree with the assessment there. obviously winning three states in a row and people said it was over and the campaign in disarray, other people playing chess, we were playing checkers and facing the head winds that, you know what?

this campaign doesn't really stand a chance and then win iowa, oh well, doesn't really -- won't work out and then win new hampshire and two white states and then nevada by a large margin. doesn't seem like you're generating turnout. you get a sense from me the frustration any time you win, oh, you know, there's a win -- >> got to move the goal post. >> of course. raising the roof on everybody. ceiling is getting raised for us. we work hard for it. >> what was my favorite misstatement? the ceiling is the roof. the roof is the ceiling. i want you to respond to the first round of attack ads that republicans use against down ballot democrats invoking the candidate's name. one in arizona. i want your response to it after. here it is. >> now kelly says he would support bernie sanders. 60 trillion in new spending. taxpayer funded health pair for illegal imgrants. >> will it uncollude undocumented people? >> and the answer is --

absolutely, of course. we'll raise taxes. yes, we will. >> kelly and sanders, too liberal for arizona. >> look. i know you're not surprised by the tone of the ad and that and i get the argument that any democratic nominee would be used in some form. but are you concerned that democrats down the ballot are going to reinforce this and run away, as well? >> well, i would hope they wouldn't and we'll make a strong case and be the standard bearer for the arguments for medicare for all, green new deal, for canceling all student debt. those are the arguments if we win the nomination you have to expect from bernie sanders that you're going to go and make the public case for it and i hope that our friends in the party won't try to undermine the case. it is our job to try to present it and have the debate with donald trump and ultimately that's what will govern the races is can bernie sanders take on donald trump on health care and demonstrate that he has let

you down and we have got a working class solution for you? >> are you guys going to be comfortable if candidates down the ballot, look, they support you for president but don't want to support the entire agenda? is that going to make -- >> chuck -- >> an awkward fit in a place like arizona? i'm asking. >> bernie sanders living an ena politics that has often looked askew at him. right? friends on the democratic caucus. friends in the republican caucus. they have suggested he is a little bit different. he is the odd one out. right? so he's used to other people having different opinions. but it's our job to assume the responsibility of leadership and make a convincing and compelling argument for why this is good politics and good policy joining together we'll be behooved together in winning. >> all right. faiz for bernie 2020, sending a message there. you are sticking in south carolina. we're all watching. >> we are. >> interesting day. that says a lot.

>> going for it. >> thank you very much. we'll figure out what stadium to move the goal posts next. i'm kidding. thanks very much. up next, a sanders rival, joe biden, grabs a crucial endorsement in south carolina from a house top democrats. it's congressman jim clyburn. chicago! ok so, magnificent mile for me... i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. until i realized something was missing... me. you ok, sis? my symptoms were keeping me from really being there for my sisters. (announcement) "final boarding for flight 2007 to chicago" so i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure.

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carolina? you have said that south carolina will determine the outcome of this presidential race. if you don't win south carolina, will you continue -- >> i will win south carolina. >> all right, sir. >> welcome back. a guarantee from joe biden during last night's south carolina debate. biden's narrow path to the nomination gets smaller without a convincing win on saturday but today he got some help with the backing of the biggest name in south carolina democratic poll theics, congressman jim clyburn. gave biden the endorsement today in an event in north charleston and he joins me now. congressman, this was among the worst-kept secrets in washington. let me ask you this. how much more pressure's on biden now to win south carolina? there's really no excuse. correct? >> well, there's pressure on biden but there's even more pressure on jim clyburn, i think. yeah. it is going to be tough.

but i think we can win this. i feel very good about it. i're been talking to people throughout south carolina. you know? all during the campaign season and i really believe that joe will win. i'm trying to make sure that he gets a smashing victory. >> i was just going do say, this victory only means something if it's significant and it can be used as an accelerant. whether that's eight, ten, 12 points, you know, somewhere in that range. i assume that's where your head is at, right? this needs to be a big win. >> absolutely. i want very much for this to be a double digit victory. i think that we'll have a different narrative than one, two, three -- anything in the single digits i think would be problematic. >> you know, bernie sanders made an interesting case for his

electability today i haven't heard him say before and as compelling as i have heard him make a case which is simply this. to beat donald trump you need to be unconventional. joe biden is as conventional as it gets ab bernie sanders is as unconventional as it gets. you are a conventional i think in this sense r. you nervous that conventional isn't going to work? >> no. i've been saying for sometime now i think our country is at an inflection point. i think our country is at a crossroads. we know that what has been happening with the voting rights okay, for instance, that the -- throughout joe biden, the last time he looked at the voting rights act in the senate he got it extended for 25 years. that's the mentality that joe had and the supreme court's mentality is at work now. we know that we need to -- we

just re-authorized the violence against women act. joe wrote that bill. we should look at who can beat donald trump only. who can help us maintain the house? who can help us regain the senate? who can help legislators down the line? they draw congressional district lines. the mistake we make is focusing only on the presidency and don't look at how we can protect democrats all up an dod down th line. >> let me ask you this. if your endorsement wins and he wins by double digits, it would lead to a good showing in the southern states on super tuesday and a best-case scenario is a brokered convention between

biden an sanders. are you comfortable with that? >> it all depends on you looking at a broken convention. i'm re-reading the rules. unpledged delegates don't get a chance to vote on the first ballot. unpledged delegates vote on the second ballot. i don't call that brokering. that's what the rules say. you don't vote on the first ballot but the second. it may get to be brokering if you don't win on the second but i don't call it brokering when you follow the rules. >> so you're more than comfortable with this if the second ballot which includes the unpledged delegates which basically are the elected officials like yourself, what we have referred to before as super delegates, if that's what puts biden over the top on the second ballot, you don't see that as a broker but following the rules? >> that's exactly right. >> all right. i think that will be one interpretation an we'll see

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welcome back. in roughly an hour from now, president trump is scheduled to speak at the white house with a team of public health advisers to brief reporters on how the administration plans to battle covid-19, also known as simply the coronavirus. it's a strain that's sickened more than 80,000 people globally. most of the cases in the united states are americans evacuated from a cruise ship off the coast of japan. and while the pace of this outbreak appears to be slowing in china, where the virus originated, it is spreading to more places around the world.

yesterday the new cases reported outside of china exceeded the number of new cases inside of china. here at home health officials say not to panic but to prepare. my colleague geoff bennett at the white house and preparing for this briefing. this is what's odd about it. this feels like the president's motivated simply by the stock market and that's why he feels like he has to respond. >> reporter: i think that's a reason why we have been seeing this case of mixed messaging from the white house all week. president trump trying to reassure americans that coronavirus poses little threat. we have it under control, the president said. you have backup of larry kudlow the top economic adviser saying that the virus has been contained as subject matter experts at the cdc, a top official that very day said that it's a matter of when not if this virus spreads. you have got at least 57 cases detected here in the states. the may why are of san francisco

declared a state of merge as a way to deal with the threat and a reason for the disconnect sources tell myself and my colleagues is that the administration has been grappling with how to mount and message out a response that is responsible without inducing panic. that said, though, lawmakers on the other side of pennsylvania avenue to include republicans have given this administration so far unsatisfactory marks. you had republican senator kennedy dressing down the chief in a hearing the other day. richard shelby said that the administration was lowballing it asking for $2.5 billion in emergency funding to deal with this threat. you have chuck schumer really tripling the request, writing a request of his own of $8.5 billion to deal with it. i suspect when president trump joined by the vice president and the so-called task force of coronavirus trying to hit the

reset button on the administration's response to this, chuck. >> all right. sometimes the president lets them talk and sometimes he does all the talking which is why we can't predict how this is going to go. geoff bennett at the white house, thank you. let's bring in dr. inglesbury, an expert in infectious diseases and advised the cdc. he said the issue isn't stopping the spread of the coronavirus but how to blunt the impact of it. doctor, thank you for coming on and sort of trying to separate fact from myth here. first of all, what do you want to hear from the president and the public health officials in an hour? >> well, i want the officials on stage, the president and the health officials, to be as clear as cdc was yesterday morning when they said that they believe this epidemic is likely to

spread in the united states. that is important because it will help galvanize, preparedness actions. i think institutions like hospitals to some extent waiting for cues from the national leaders and the clear messages of yesterday morning of how it is time to prepare, that's going to be really important and hope we hear announcement of substantial funding support because we need that for hospitals, public health agencies. >> what do you need right now? what would johns hopkins need right now in baltimore? >> i think they're going to need some kind of assurance about supply chains around personal protective equipment, masks, gowns. to keep coming to hospitals over time and the hospitals doing everything they can to ensure supply chains along those lines. they need to be hearing about funding support over time. these patients that have been hospitalized in china have been there for -- hospitalized for very long time and hospitals are

operating way out of the comfort zone and pretty expensive and complicated to care for coronavirus patients. >> yeah. >> i think they want to be hairing abo hearing about diagnostic testing for clinics and hospitals. right now we have tested somewhere in the order of 500 people for coronavirus and other countries we have tested tens of thousands. so we need to pick up the pace on diagnostic testing and get the clinical developers creating the lab tests so doctors and nurses test on the site. >> so last night i surprised my teenager when i told him that only 2% of those that get the coronavirus die. he goes, oh. well, i thought it was -- i thought it was much worse and i understand if you just digest social media, you just digest the headlines, this feels more deadly than it is. now, at the same time we need to take it seriously. so give me the don't panic but

take it seriously analysis for us please. >> uh-huh. just as a point of comparison, seasonal flu every year is 1 in a thousand case fatality and this disease at this point in china killing between 1 and 2 or 3 in 100. so that's a pretty serious distinction between the two. it's also a new disease we are learning a lot about so the case fatality rate go down or up and learning about it over time and it's a new disease so more people around the world are vulnerable to it. we have more immunity as a group to influenza and more people are susceptible to getting coronavirus so those are the reasons why i think we all need to take it seriously. it is the case that most people who get this disease will do very well. and have minimal symptoms but there are some and in 5% of

people on vent latters and some people -- half the people died from this. >> i was going to say, if you have an asthma condition, older, is this the highest vulnerability group? >> yeah. the highest vulnerability is in people over 60, particularly as they get older into the 70s and 80s. those people are at higher risks and people who have preexisting conditions like diabetes or lung disease or cancer seem to be at higher risk. >> doctor, with a fact-based interview here, nothing to ramp you up or down, take this seriously. it is clearly the message we are receiving. doctor, thank you very much. we'll be back at the president gets ready to speak to the nation about the nation's coronavirus response. stuck around.

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welcome back. in just over a half-hour from now, president trump and a team of administration officials are scheduled to brief reporters at the white house on the coronavirus. mark, bessie -- excuse me, you're all back. betsy, this feels like, the president has made it known he is upset at the market's reaction to all this. his motivation is that but this

may be one of the cases where he's stumbling into finally doing something the administration should have done a month ago. >> i think having public health figures address this pandemic and share information, assuming it is correct, a no brainer that you should do that. the issue is that we don't know what he'll say. in the past he's taken at least one infamous disastrous situation and doctored it for his own political benefit. when the hurricane hit florida, trump claimed that alabama was in the pathway and they put out this ridiculous sharpie map. >> this is credibility thing. he has so little credibility with at least half the country when a moment like this, this is where not having the credibility is a problem. >> and his desire to be the bride at every wedding and the korms at every funeral. >> i don't think the stock markets will be particularly calmed or impacted by anything trump says on this of the.

>> the and to that is, you've already basically undercut all of the infrastructure that public health infrastructure that needs to be in place and needed to be in place a month ago in order to deal with the looming crisis and he has nobody who is home at the store. >> it does seem as if this is how all politics is local. republicans won't have his back on this. this stuff, this is party lines. >> they're already talking about the need for larger supplemental on capitol hill. >> the answer to everything is more money. >> that's what they can do. they can't reorganize the cdc or the nih or create a czar position or create some sort of internal cohesion in the white house. so the health and human services secretary is saying the same thing as the economic advisers. >> that's the issue. there's no coordination. >> anything with the containment of this virus. >> they seem to be more concerned about the markets than

the virus. >> part of throwing money at the strategy of the problem, which everyone agrees is the only thing they can do, there are cuts this administration has made to hhs funding. there have been impacts in the way they're resourcing folks in that department who handle disease issues. and i know this from talking on people in hhs. from a resource perspective, they are facing challenges they didn't have under prior administrations. >> let's recall private citizen trump and how he handled the ebola outbreak. what would he have gun the oil spill in the gulf? they have not been tested with a real crisis. >> they've been very lucky. he's made tough cause. killi the deep water horizon, in hindsight. >> there hasn't been a massive,

requiring presidential level leadership, continued sustained presidential leadership under his watch. and perhaps that streak is coming to an end. hopefully not, obviously. >> and with his mind on the stock market, that's not his best move. and he's also challenged at every level the science, any number of different agencies. now when he comes out and says, okay, we need to pay attention to the science. one, there are no scientists. but also, we are not believing what this administration is saying at a really critical moment. >> an awful lot of actings at the hhs that were suddenly having to answer questions to the senate. no doubt there are a bunch that are petrified that they're acting. that's all we have for tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." if it's wednesday, we have a brand new chuck todd cast. casie hunt, leah andarinam.

and can stu rothenberg. "the beat" with ari starts right now. >> thank you for joining us on "the beat." our top story is the new developments in the raucous democratic race after quite a debate. before we turn to that and our guests who are sitting with me, i want you to know that later this hour, we will have reporting on the coronavirus including the white house press conference about the global outbreak. cases now reported on every continent save antarctica. having taken nearly 3,000 lives, plus inmore than 80,000 worldwide. inside the u.s., there are now 60 cases reported but also, reports of all the spreading. there are now over 40 countries around the world impacted. brazil has now reported the first case in all of south america, and that just came today. back in the united states, when it comes to the response, congressional leaders have been pushing to elevate the u.s. response to try to get billions more in new f