>> and yet today he told associates the white house instructed him not to say anything else about clearance. it's news that happens to come one day after he contradicted the president's happy talk on coronavirus. he restated the scientific community's prediction the virus will inevitably spread in the u.s. and fact check the president's claim about vaccines. >> the vaccine is coming along

well and in speaking to the doctors, we think this is something we can develop fairly rapidly a vaccine. >> this is the fastest we've ever gone from a sequence of a virus to a trial, it still would not be any applicable to the epidemic unless we wait a year to a year and a half. >> our own hallie jackson confronted the president about contradictions like that between trump and his own public health officials. >> in the course of the last couple of minutes, you have disputed some of what the officials working in the administration behind you have said about the risk of coronavirus and its spread. do you trust your health officials or your instincts more? >> they said it could be worse and i said it could be worse too. i don't think it's inevitable. i think we're doing a really good job in terms of letting people in and checking people and also that's one of the

reasons i'm here getting the word out so they'll know. >> and today, less than 24 hours after that exchange the information bottle neck. mike pence will have to clear all appearances by any u.s. government health official. with us at the table, dr. celine and infectious disease specialist. and legal analyst. and also joining us from "the washington post" robert costa. i walked in, we've never met and you said i'm not shaking hands anymore. this is a story that really transcends what we usually cover here, which is the white house, the abnormal nature of this presidency, the norm busting and that's why the information lockdown is where we start. i think what's on most people's

minds is how do they protect themselves and their families? >> i think we need start changing certain habits like shaking hands. as i said to some of the other folks. i don't mind hugging actually but shaking hands, definitely not. you touch your face and rub your eye. >> i want to get a pen and write this down. >> the other commonsense things is i would have an alcohol-based hand sanitizer on you at all times. there's other brands. i think another thing that may happen in the not too distant future, a lot of the ingredients in our drugs come from china. i would reach out to your health care provider and ask if you are on medications for refills. maybe 90 days instead of 30 days. >> let me ask you two more things not political in nature. two people to me said amazon's

out of masks and another person said i'm flying cross country and can't find a mask. do masks help? >> there's the surgical mask we put on patients who've had symptoms and that's meant to trap the droplets you cough and sneeze out. er for it's to prevent transmission to other people and then the 95 masks, which are the respirators we use in the hospital. our exposure is very difrent. when i see a patient in the bellevue emergency department, they may have soiled their sheets. dr. leavy was literally in somebody's face examining their eyes. that's a different dose of exposure. >> we started with the risk and if anyone disagrees -- i think this is a national health crisis. this is something that has people feeling even more anxiety than they do about politics. the white house locking down

someone like anthony fauci. he worked during the bush presidency, in which i served. he worked on the preparations and i was part of a team that prepared for the bird flu pandemic. i'm not sure he has ever been constrained in terms of being able to speak about public health issues. does that worry you? >> i'm extremely concerned because that means the white house is more concerned about political messaging. fauci has served under ronald reagan and was never prevented from speaking out in this way. during the hiv epidemic, he was able to say what he needed to say to bring it under control. >> you've got a story out at the beginning of the week that put in black and white, the degree to which donald trump is relying on the strength of the stock market for his own re-election.

what are you hearing from the white house about how they thought last night looks and standing shoaleder to shoulder with the president and today's effort to push it all through mike pence? >> there has been deep concern for days. it's clear that the dow jones industrial average and nasdaq and other indicators are part of the re-election campaign. and putting vice president pence in charge too, use president trump's words is about making sure this one messager for the administration, regardless of the criticism they're facing about that decision, they've felt like politically and from a management point, they wanted to make sure the white house is in control. they're already seeing tension president day one and there are tensions inside the white house about whether vice president pence is prepared for the onslaught of criticism about him being the head.

>> you know, the other thing that came to my mind is it seems like he can go down the path jim mattis went where he resigned when there was a policy he disagreed with. or don mcgahn but when it came to cooperating or respecting robert mueller, he spent more than 30 hours answering questions. all the people that fall in line and seem to revert to trumpism, which includes lies and distortions and smears. any sense of where the pence world is in terms of the high wire act this represents for his political future? >> i closely covered vice president pence for years and been on the road with him and others in his circle. it's clear he's a loyalist. he's a loyalist today. he's lock step with president trump on every part of this respontaneous. and part of putting him in is there was concern in the president's inner circle about

secretary azar. would he get on a limb? >> that, david jolly, is the most disconcerting thing i've heard in a week of disconcerting news. and bob costa knows this west wing and the circle around mike pence that he wants the world to know today of all days he's a loyalist is a scary thought. >> he can't be trusted anymore than donald trump can. donald trump is going to endanger american lives for reasons of his personal ego and political fortunes. what he should have said to the nation yesterday is we believe the coronavirus pose as global health risk and i've used all the resources to address the spread and the research response to it, and as president, i'm asking the american people to do their part to engage in cert

beenhaviors that you would typically ask your family to do when there is a health risk. donald trump didn't do that and i think what the nation sees in moments like this is someone he is always on the defensive, seeming to carry the burden of his own personal brand, not the burden of a nation that is fearful. donald trump's predecessors understood when the nation felt fear. if it was around a shooting a death, a national catastrophe, they had an empathy and understood fear and how to address it. yes, confidence and saying we have marshalled the resources necessary but realistically understanding the anxiety of the american people. donald trump refuses to recognize that fear and there's a growing chasm between what donald trump and mike pence have to say about coronavirus and hot the american people feel about it. and the frustration you're seeing with the president is that is where his political

liability is between now and november. >> i wonder too how scientists feel. i mean, really the public example we all witnessed was donald trump literally altering with a black marker the path of a hurricane where lives were at risk. and in the moment, we can only imagine and the administrator of noah said i'm fighting to keep politics out of science. i'm not asking you to put words in dr. fauci's mouth but with his legacy of decades a preeminent scientist, how do you think that is to get permission from mike pence to speak from the public? >> remember mike pence, when he was governor of indiana, he allowed hiv spread. that's the biggest outbreak was in scot county, indiana because

of his ideological objections to syringe exchange programs. i agree he is in lock step with trump. this is all about politics and f protecting their brand. >> having been on the hill for 20 years, his reputation is impeccable and every member of congress is going to trust what he says more so than donald trump and mike pence. >> which makes it weird that they muzzled him. i want to ask about the war on science, as it's been previewed or curtain pulled back by rush limbaugh's attack against a top official at the cdc who he claimed, because she was rob rosenstein's sister was part of a deep state conspiracy spreading lies about coronavirus. >> this is an example of the messaging ahead of the response.

trying to find the way to message what's happening or what's being reported in a way that helps the president or avoids risk for him. it's not going to matter who's in charge of messaging if americans start dying in great numbers of the coronavirus. what's going to matter is the response. the government is often a distraction in people lives and that's very real. and people and voters pay close attention to how effective it is. it's too soon to know if they're going to stop him from putting out important information. but the administration does have a habit of demanding that career staff furnish facts to meet what the president has already said or wants to say. and that's not the response you want in a pandemic. >> in preparing for yesterday's show and today, we've relied on reporting from the "the new york times" and washington post.

we've relied on the public statements from dr. fauci, medical experts. because this is a public health crisis that scares people. it's really, really scary. but even if you just take the known facts, the known record, the public record is a smear campaign against a top official at the cdc from rush limbaugh, who also has a presidential medal of freedom. it's the muzzling of dr. tony fauci who is respected, revered, i dare say, in the medical community on capitol hill and trusted by the public. it would seem we're entering potentially one of the most unsettling chapters yet. >> it is extremely dangerous because we have a president who leads by lies and the reason that is so dangerous, and i'm saying that as a general point -- but also documented. i see that as a fact statement,

not judgment, although i can do that too. but in the context of a public health emergency and i worked for mayor de blasio when we had the 2014 ebola outbreak. there's one thing very clear in the cdc guidelines and also critically important whether you're a state or local government. job one is to engage in informing the public. because public knowing what to do -- i mean to doctor's points, nick's point, if you know what to do you can actually reduce the impact in this health crisis. the second thing is when the government has to direct you to do something, you have to trust and respect that they're telling you the right thing to do and do it. if the public does not evacuate during a hurricane, when you say you might die. if the public doesn't believe

those things and ask if you had a fever f inpublic doesn't believe you, the public is at risk. so, it's not just a question of the politics of lying, which is always bad politics, it's the politics of public health and that should not be political. >> let me end on a personal question. moms have reached out to me. i don't know their political affiliation and my 8-year-old is in the elevator with another little boy who said he was staying home from school and my 8-year-old said do you have the coronavirus? what is the conversation with kids? >> i think it's definitely a hand washing conversation. kids are -- bring lots of germs home. i think one thing that should reassure parents is we haven't seen deaths and severe disease

among children. if you're somebody over 50 and definitely over 65, you have high risk. and one think that we saw with h1n1 flu and we don't know if this is true with krocoronavirus well is pregnant women were at risk. >> i want to come back the politics and end on what your sense is of how seriously this is being taken. because sometimes there's a biefericated reality where the president is watching fox and tweeting away and people are handling it in the west wing in the way quasi-normal white house houses function. >> there's confusion too, say the least. and when you make calls to top sources a sense it's out of control. governor newsom in california dealing with his own cases in his state and dealing with the

fallout from possible new cases and test people and figure out what's going on. as much as the white house is trying to take a grip of this politically, this is a global problem that is having issues across the united states and washington can only do so much at this point, bought lot of state leaders are telling "the post" they want truth more than anything. >> is the president concerned about his political fate? i heard he was feeling pretty gleeful in seeing the first three contests become a story of bernie sanders's inevtblt. has this taken him down to earth at all? >> so many of his ads begin with the stock market and now it's been hovering around 29, down to around 26,000. that that's part of his core argument and his allies tell me he's rattled and concerned about it,

even as he projects confidence. >> thank you. i will not be shaking anymore hands. it's a privilege to have you here. thank you. when we come back, we'll ask how the u.s. government is obtaining accurate and timely information from countries like china and iran, who both have major outbreaks when donald trump has spent much of his presidency antagonizing the leaders. bob costa shared it with us that donald trump is banking on the strength of the stock market as the central argument for his re-election. we'll head to the stock exchange for a reporter and biden is surging in south carolina. should mike bloomberg consider using his pricey tv ads to boost biden ahead of super tuesday? introducing even more value from fidelity.

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i spoke with the vice president this morning. i expressed to him the concern i had of his -- when he was governor of indiana slashing the public health budget and having some clinics, one especially a planned parenthood clinic closed, which was the only place where, in that scott county you could get tested for hiv and aids. >> that was house speaker nancy pelosi raising her concerns about mike pence leading the response to the coronavirus outbreak. given something dr. gunner

mentioned earlier. here's what she was talking about. quote, the worst hiv outbreak in the state's history happened on his watch in 2015, which could explain why they blamed his belated response and authorizing a needle exchange program. he didn't agree with public health experts. you can stop right there. "pence didn't agree with public health experts that distributing clean needles was a good idea. in 2018 researchers at yale university found the epidemic could have been prevented if pence and state officials had acted faster. erick swalwell on both the jude -- it used to feel like a democratic attack line to say

pence and trump are against science. but there's such a record that i think in some cities had been in place for decades. trump contradicting hurricane paths, denying the recovery in puerto rico. what is your degree of alarm and what is your plan to help him support the public health efforts? >> i think because we are dealing with a pandemic here that could become a real crisis in america, we want to give the president and the vice president all the resources they need and the support they need and root for their success because their success is our success. so, i'll resist pointing out some of the flaws, i think, in the people appointed and say as a member of the house leadership team, we're standing ready to give them the funding they need and support the investments in detection, the ability to support local hospitals to

quarantine and contain and have a vaccine as soon as possible. >> i think everybody is coming at this as an american or a parent or a daughter or a son. but what about what you've seen firthers your hope and optimism or gives you something to keep an eye on? >> in the house leadership and on the house side, we have a number of doctors and nurses. yesterday i was speaking with lauren underwood from illinois. she's a nurse, worked in the obama administration and brought a perspective i found quite helpful and constructive. it's in all our interests for the president to be successful in working to combat this. and it's import tonight remind the president this is not a time to score political points at home or abroad. every country neetds to be on te same page to make sure this

doesn't spread further. >> and they said you've spreading alarm -- >> no, because i'm seeing my constituents have their 401(k)s in a free fall. we don't want that. my constituent whose are chinese and asian descent are being discriminated against in their businesses and their restaurants because of fears about themselves containing or carrying this virus. and of course i have constituents who are in comas right now over in japan. i have two in a coma induced in japan because of the kroen vs. no, we want to solve this. that has to be the highest priority. >> do you see any danger in prominent media figures like rush limbaugh smearing a senior officials at the cdc and suggesting as sister of attorney

general rod rosen steen, it's parted of a deep state effort to hurt trump. you're clearly giving the president room to operate, support politically, publicly and sounds like monetarily. but do you have any concerns or do you think any of the public officials deserve to be defended? >> yes and we'll keep defending them and we just need constructive, productive voices in the table right now. and rush limbaugh is not helping things. he's going through treatment himself, should appreciate the role doctors play to help all people including him. too much is at stake to do anything but root for the president to succeed and give him the resources and expertise we have to make sure that's the case. >> a quick check suggested you have not endorsed anybody yet.

voters are worried about coronavirus and if they live in south carolina, they have to make a choice on saturday. any preference you see in the democratic primary contest? anyone that shares your values? and i know one of your big issues was gun control? >> yes, ending gun violence was very important to me. i was heart tonight see vice president biden and bloomberg talked about that at the debit. but i believe someone who can uniielt us and win the day after donald trump. i'm ready yet to get involved. but as we say, for the oakland raiders, just win, baby. whoever can win. >> we say a lot of things like goberts and -- let me just follow up. you said you want someone who can unite us the day after donald trump leaves. is bernie sanders someone who can unite us? >> i hope he can.

i hope he seeks to bring more people to the party and hope he denounces any of his supporters that go after people like elizabeth warren, as we've seen in the past few days. but he's the nominee, we're going to work with him to defeat donald trump. no matter who our nominee is, there's one thing we can say that republicans can't, they will not be corrupt. >> do you share sanders' policys on gun control? >> no, i believe we should have an assault weapons ban and mandatory buyback and i would have voted for the brady bill. but i will give him space and be a voice to hopefully see him evolve on that issue. his campaign is supported by a lot of young people and i know he cares about them and speaks to them. one of their top issues is being safe in their schools and communities. >> thank you for spending some time with us. after the break the markets

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i think the financial markets are very upset when they see the democratic fools on the stage and it's always a possibility.

i think we're going to win by a lot. but when they look at the statements made by the people standing behind the podiums, i think that has a huge effect, yeah. i think it did. but you can add quite a bit of sell off to what they're seeing. because they're seeing the potential. again, i think we're going to win. i feel very confident of it. >> the sell off is because of the democratic primary debate. that was the president at a press conference meant to reassure the country and the world that the united states preparations when it comes to the inevitable spread. a strong economy is his life blood but it's because of the coronavirus, not the democratics that the dow dropped.

we are lucky to be joined by my colleague from the floor of the new york stock exchange msnbc news anchor, steph ruhle. take me through it slowly and in detail. >> reporter: but it's not for dumbies. i spent the entire day here on the new york stock exchange. you know what i haven't heard one single times? bernie sanders. risk management for a investor or ceo or moms like us is the same. we make our decisions based on trusted information. and right now f you're an invetser where, are you getting the trusted information from? the chinese government? not likely. the u.s. government? not likely. and even though the president was more sober in his delivery, he says we've got it all sorted

and we wake up and what do we have in the state of california? so, they're not saying the sky is falling. they're saying we don't know what's is happening and because of that, we'll pull out. remember the president talks about the booming economy. you know this blue market from the blue collar boom doesn't exist. manufacturing has shrunk. it's all been about consumers spending and they have been. but what advice are you and i getting from emails, from our friends canceling spring break? they're not spending when they're concerned we're going it end up with a spreadable virus in the united states. they're not taking their kids the movies or going to dinner and that will hurt the economy. >> would the markets be more reassured by brutal truth? >> reporter: that's a really good point. the markets would be reassured

by brutal truth. here's something slightly odd. the president last night, even though we took a jab here and there, he was more serious than he normally is and i spoke to a hedge fund manager who said you don't see the president that serious. that makes me feel like what information does he know that we don't? it's that the information is unreliable. j don't you just stay inside? >> i think people do. you make such a good point about people canceling vacations. we had a doctor talk about looking at ingredients in medicines and if any of them come from china. what are the other industries targeted, other than the obvious ones, travel, drugs. >>mi >>mi >>mier -- >> reporter: the few companies that did really well today, netflix, pelaton and zoom. >> we're going to work at home,

home fit and watch our favorite series. i love having you. >> be fit at home. planet fitness? nobody's getting on any sweaty gym equipment. >> that's a good point. this is also going to be -- the hits will keep coming. your newspaper has brokeen the news of a whistle-blower. i think we started with the information bottle neck. what are the reactions of repressing speech is usually an uptick in whistle-blowers. federal health employees interacted with americans quarantined without proper medical training or protective gear and scattered into the general population, according to a government whistle-blower and a portion of the complaints file obtained by "the new york times" has been submitted to the office of the special counsel. and this whistle-blower is a

senior leader, said the team was improperly deployed to two military bases in california to assist the processing of american whose had been evacuated from coronavirus hot zones in china and elsewhere. >> look, it's too soon to know if this mistake was a direct consequence of any policy decision at the top. it does raise the kind of question if there's not good planning or preparedness. it can get bad and if our agencies are not empowered and funded properly -- >> there's been a witch hunt on behalf of the president, his newly reinstated head of personnel a 29-year-old fired himself. his college senior deputy. they're charged -- do you think this is a safe time to be a whistle-blower? >> it's amazing this person took

advantage of whistle blowing instead of going to their bosses or to the white house and saying there was a mistake here. let's fix it. it speaks to a climate of fear that people feel they can't talk back because they're afraid of being fired or ousted by the loyalty squad in the white house. >> and they know their bosses can't speak out. let me read you more from the whistle-blower. quote, i soon began to feel panicked calls from my leadership team and deployed stat members expressing concern with the lack of hhs communication and staff being sent into quarantined area without proper protective equipment and protocols for safety to themselves and members of the public they come in contact with. >> critical to think about what type of protections there are

for people that just tell what's going on in order to correct it. that is the purpose of whistle blowing. if something is not getting attention from the appropriate leaders. a deeper concern is this is an administration that has put people in charge who are not quali qualified to be in charge. and that means when you see things like communication and coordination, not being supported. this is health and human serves. this is not an agency that hasn't dealt with health emergencies in place. there are protocols and standard procedures and there should be -- not that mistakes don't happen. because mistakes do happen. not that there isn't human error. but when someone is whistle blowing, it's saying you have to be concerned about whether this is a once off and you have to be concerned about whether you have competency in the governance in the institutions of government to deliver for every day people.

>> i think it's also a data point in how it was received. mike pence may have been put in place to streamline information. but the impact inside hhs was day later a whistle-blower complaint >> this is where education is the most important thing of all and the danger of quashing the scientific voices. this is just breaking but one interesting part of this is this happened to be near where that first unreported case yesterday emerged of somebody who had not been overseas. so, is this related to somebody engaging in looking into the infection of perhaps active duty military individuals and contracting it and now you have it spreading? the most reassuring and important voices are the nation's leading health officials. it's not donald trump or mike pence and the test of leadership

is recognizing that moment. i give eric swalwell great dreadread credit for the tone he took. the opportunity is to say we have this under control and as a result, i want you to hear from dr. fauci and other health professionals. not to silence them. >> there is a test for whether they'll step up and this is also the administration that's tried to keep oversight from congress and they're going to ask to hear from people who have knowledge, whether it's being sufficiently responsive, is this administration going to stone wall or allow transparency and accountability? >> and again as a student of patterns, if they decide to go with transparency, it would mean breaking a three-year record. and obviously i'm with eric swalwell and anybody else, hoping for the best.

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not too late to end new ones. do you think michael bloomberg should change all of his super tuesday ads to support joe biden? you can email a new ad. michael bloomberg's comments last night were that anybody but trump. if biden shows strength should bloomberg put that into action. >> bloomberg is careening toward a singular gamble, which is put it all on super tuesday. >> he could put it owl on joe biden. >> what you are going the see from joe biden, if you don't have the money to pay for the media, you earn it, through moments like that, last night, a moment where he connected with millions of americans, when he said, when you have a child, your heart lives outside of you. every parent -- i now understand that, 11 months after the birth of our child. but what you saw in joe biden in that moment, more than a man expressing his faith, was a man expressing his moou humility.

that despite all of the hallways of washington he had walked he knew there was something in life greater than he was, that there were moment that he could not control. and that whether somebody seeks that guidance through faith or through the teachings of a philosopher, he was expressing that he couldn't solve everything himself. that he relied on something greater that gave him wisdom. why that matters in this race, from him or any of the other candidates on the democratic side is the contrast with donald trump. a man who has said he has done no wrong. when he is asked at a religious conference have you ever asked forgiveness from god, and he says no, why would i need to -- those are the moments joe biden, if he combines with it a win in south carolina, the strongest story the next 72 hours is is joe biden the comeback kid? >> i, after spending my career in politics thinking every add and every press appearance and

every rally mattered. i now in my ripe mill age think it is structural. structurally if you are a bernie sanders supporter you have got this. i think if you love bernie sanders, he has won enough in the first three contests to really be an uncatchable and inevitable nominee. the structure piece of this is that even iffed bien is a runaway victor on saturday -- doesn't have time to get ads up. you doeb think for the bloomberg campaign but i am sure there is no chance he is going to turn his money machine into a pro-biden provision. buttegeig won iowa, he can claim to not getting out. and elizabeth warren is arguably having the strongest performances on the debate stage. structurally, thou one can catch him. >> i think you are right that he is really the front runner and it doesn't mart what the polls in south carolina say. i think this is a highly unusual democratic primary because it is

an extremely unprecedented time. this is one of those faims times when voters -- even though voters care about issue -- i don't want to suggest they don't, of course they do. but their number one issue by and large is get trump out of office. and i think what that could translate into -- it is a long shot. i am not -- i have no crystal ball. >> none of us does. i don't either. >> maybe i could read a palm. that's about all -- but what i do think is the -- the fact he is going to win south carolina. biden is going to win south carolina. i think that when you see a jim clyburn give the kind of endorsement -- it wasn't just i agree completely with everything david said about biden's own answer to that question. but it was jim clyburn. jim clyburn was every stretch as emotional, heart felt, sincere, and moving when he told voters why he was endorsing biden. and that is a kind of loyalty and connection you can't buy.

and that also is something that could be deployed for him in these other states. >> that's the other -- that's my other thought. john mccain got in a truck and drove around with his former folks who knew sort of what he had encured as a pretty mucher of war. maybe jim clyburn can get on a plane with joe biden and get to all of the super tuesday states before tuesday. i think your bigger point and question to me is anything can happen. anything can happen. we will sneak in a break. we'll be right back. blam

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. david jolly made a brilliant point as usual, whatever happened to white house press briefings?

these guys are never going to miss these things until they are gone. >> that's right. and the nation deserves a daily press briefing right now. >> my thank to my guests. "mtp daily" with chuck todd towards right now. ♪ welcome to thursday. it is meet the press daily. good evening. i am chuck todd in washington. the president is trying to assure the public that the u.s. is prepared for the coronavirus as the number of cases rise around the world and has public health officials in the united states are now grappling with a situation in california after the first case of the virus was found in someone with no known link to others with the infection. markets are clearly rattled. wall street tumbled again, down for the sixth straight day. today was the single worst day for a point drop for the dow and the s&p. not percentage wise but the single worst day point