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that is it for me today. thank you for watching. "am joy" with my friend joy reid begins right now. hello, friend. >> hello friend. you know what? it has been crazy. last night i'm in south carolina. that result was like, wow, very big change. now here in selma, it's like a huge change. it's interesting. i feel like i'm on the southern story now, the chapter in this book about the election that's been the southern story. really wild. >> the energy down there is going to be great and it's going to be important. and the tie between selma and the voting taking place in the next two days is going to be incredibly relevant. i will remain glued to it today my friend. >> you're the best. thank you, ali. looking forward to have you back. we have to do a lot of talk about what we're obsessed about, the underlying factors of why

this election is so hot. it's not just about donald trump. it's about what's happening in people's lives. it's so fascinating to see how that's playing out in different communities. we'll talk a lot about that today. these different ethnic communities are experiencing that and reacting to it in different ways. >> that's right. disparity is what's driving people out. i'm glad they came out. what made me most pleased, i ended the night with the democratic claire for south carolina, like you started with him in the morning. when we looked at those numbers -- all day i was looking for the turnout numbers, we were at about 500,000 people in south carolina. that tells me as broken as we sometimes think democracy is, people took it in their hands to do that. if they keep on doing that on super tuesday and on the way to election night, democracy will prove itself not to be broken. >> amen. i watched that coverage last night. you know i'm a huge fan of ali velshi. i pretty much watch anything you do. i watched last night. it was a great interview. thank you, my friend.

have a great rest of the day. good morning to you. welcome to "am joy." i am coming to you from beautiful selma alabama where i'll host a presidential forum with senator elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar. the big news this morning is what happened last night in south carolina. former vice president joe biden's big win pushed the pause butt tn on bernie sanders's big win. it wasn't even close. 99% of precincts reporting, biden won almost half of all voters followed by senator bernie sanders in a distant second place. billionaire tom steyer who spent many millions of dollars and practically moved in to south carolina came in third place and promptly dropped out last night after he failed to hit the 15% required to win any delegates. joe biden's decisive win which through his campaign a bieltal lifeline was all thanks to black voters who delivered him six in

ten of their votes, no small thanks to house ha jort whip jim clyburn who gave him the endorsement. because of this, he's in a very close second place behind bernie sanders in the delegate count and leads in the popular vote proving just how pivotal the black vote in south carolina can be in reshaping the democratic primary. just last week was a very different story after sanders decisively won in nevada, due largely by land tinx voters. how will this play out? two days from now on super tuesday when a race defining 1,300 delegates are up for grabs. take a look at a map of latinx heavy states, big states like california and texas. california alone has 415 pledge delegates to offer. here's the map of souper tuesday states with sizeable black populations where biden is

favored. north carolina, alabama, tennessee, virginia, oklahoma. two days out it's anyone's guess how super tuesday will pan out. last night not only revived joe biden's campaign with momentum to move forward, but set up a potential two-man race. i did say man, not to mention two competing ideologies. progressive and moderate going head-to-head within the democratic party. joining me is jamie harrison, the former south carolina democratic party chair currently running for lindsey graham's -- well, for tthe seat that lindse graham currently holds. thank you for being here. >> thank you, joy. >> you and i were together last night as these results were coming in. were you surprised at all by how decisive the win was for joe biden? >> i was a bit surprised. but the thing that really surprised me, joy, was the

turnout numbers here in south carolina. we almost eclipsed -- we'll get the final word maybe today or tomorrow, whether or not we're clips the historic turnout we saw in the 2008 election with hillary clinton, barack obama and john edwards. i never thought we would get that close. we far surpassed what we saw in 2016. the person who should be -- probably had nightmares last night is lindsey graham because the turnout particularly in some of these traditionally republican counties was unbelievable. it says to me that this new south is emerging. and as i've been saying so much, south carolina is going to be the tip of the spear. this is about building this new movement, and that's what we're so, so excited about. i hope folks will come and join me at jamieharrison.com and be a part of it. >> let me play last night a little bit of joe biden's acceptance speech last night. this is a guy feeling very

boo'ed by what he saw in the state of south carolina. >> for all of those of you who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. just days ago, the press and the pundits declared this candidacy dead. now, thanks to all of you, the harder t heart of the democratic party, we just won and we won big because of you. >> so let's talk about how big this one. biden now actually leads the popular vote thanks to south carolinians with 257,096 to bernie sanders 105,370 votes. those are the vote totals. that's largely because sanders has won states that are smaller, just physically smaller states. buttigieg is at about 43k,

klobuchar on down. so this has really put biden in a position where he's not just on parity with bernie sanders, but in terms of the measure that sanders team has said is the most important, he's ahead. >> last night i listened to the speeches from many of the candidates, and i can tell you that the biden speech was the first time i have heard in this presidential primary thus far one of our candidates actually start to talk about the hopes, the aspirations and the fears of the people. they all have to do that because in order for us to win in november, in order for us to win senate races, to win down ballot races, that's what we have to do. we have to start speaking to the heart of these voters, and last night was the first time i've heard that and heard that in an impassioned personal way. my thing is they all need to tap

into that and continue to make that pitch. >> you're running obviously against senator lindsey graham who has stitched himself to donald trump in every way and is counting on donald trump's base to put him back in office. he doesn't win by huge margins, right? you're very close, if you look at some of the polling, very close to him. who would help you most in your mind to go over the top and be able to beat lindsey graham of the front-runners or anyone who is running? is there somebody that in your mind would help you as a down-ballot candidate? >> well, joy, for me i subscribe to my grandma's philosophy. she always said, jaime, you control what you can control and you leave the rest to the lord. that's what i'm going to do. at the end of the day, i will probably be at the top of the ticket here and that's because we know the presidential campaigns don't like to play in south carolina because they don't believe it's a

battleground state. so it's going to be my campaign that has the most tv ads up, the most mail, the most canvassers. it's really going to be a 3457b know amano race between me and lindsey graham. that's a race i'm going to win. >> very quickly, and i'm running out of time. you know that's not the way the other side will play it. if donald trump were running ads saying jamie harrison is a socialist like bernie sanders or jaime harrison -- they start running the ukraine conspiracy and things like the clarence thomas hearings. they're going to use that against you. which of those two narratives would hurt you more? >> well, joy, in the end, what i'm trying to do, i'm trying to bridge the divide between the folks who support joe biden, those who support bernie sanders, and i need a unified

party, unified effort here in south carolina. so in the end, i'm not going to choose sides one way or the other. i'm going to let the people of south carolina make their decision on who they wanted to come out of here and we'll let america, the rest of the country make that other decision. but in the end of the day, i got to bring all those sides together because we've got to be unified to get lindsey graham out of here. >> spoken like a true politician and somebody who was properly mentored by whip clyburn and former south carolina democratic party chair, very political answer. jaime harrison, good luck and thank you for joining us. >> thank you. joining me, sitting right here with me is senator doug jones, democrat from the great state of alabama. >> welcome to alabama. >> thank you very much. i'm glad it warmed up a little bit. just a little bit. people don't remember, it can get socold in the south.

>> it absolutely can. >> i'm going to ask the question question to you. you've got a tough reelect. you are number one on the list of targets of the republicans, of the mitch mcconnell world, trying to remove you from this seat you won in historic fashion. who would help you more and who would hurt you more of the two top front-runners, joe biden and bernie sanders? >> joy, that's an easy one for me. i wasn't listening to my friend jaime who i think will be a colleague of mine soon. >> your earpiece not in so you couldn't hear it. >> joe biden has been a friend of mine for 40 years. he is the kind of man, leader that i think this country needs at such a critical point in our history. if you look around, and i know people try to be very politic. if you look around at the democrats running for the united states senate across the country this year, including me, we're trying to run as healers, as people that will unite the country. we're not running as

revolutionaries, not trying to completely upend a system, trying to bring the country back to normalcy and unite people. i think joe biden has that able, he's demonstrated that over and over, both as a united states senator and as barack obama's vice president. if barack obama put his faith and judgment in joe biden, i think the american people will as well. >> biden won in south carolina with 61% of the african-american vote, 61. sanders was next at 17. so the black vote was decisive for him. it was decisive for you. >> absolutely. >> look. lets be honest. it is decisive in democratic politics, but also decisive in american politics because it's such a historic story. they gave the right to vote and now trying to take it away. we don't want people taking away that right for folks. i think by and large, joe biden has been on the front lines doing that for so long. i think what south carolina did

was demonstrate to america that we are in a new game here. we have now seen a south carolina more representative of a democratic party, more representative of america and a democratic base. what i think we will see going forward is all of a sudden people have been watching and seen how things have played out. look, everybody has got their great supporters. everybody is enthusiastic. as people go forward now, this race is really going to be about leadership for the next four years. that's where the leadership comes in. leadership means getting things done, not just talking about it, not just standing at a podium pounding a fist, but getting things done. that's joe biden's strength. >> let me ask you about alabama, the politics here. what issues really drive the voters who put you in office? it's not -- i think we in this business think everything is about donald trump and that he occupies all the space in politics. he doesn't. he would not like to hear that, but he doesn't. what are the things people are

concerned about? i feel like the real economic anxiety is regular working people. >> no question about it. >> it's not trump voters, it's regular ordinary young people who can't move out of their parents' homes. that's what's driving bernie sanders excitement. >> i don't disagree at all. i think people in alabama are looking to make those changes, my election is a voice for the future rather than the past. we've had a rough past in alabama. it's the kitchen table issues that people from all race and religion are looking at. health care is a huge issue. we're a fairly unhealthy state in the state of alabama. we need people who need good health care and they're not getting it in this administration. we have people doing fine. we've got low unemployment but wages have been slowly rising, not ike even our brothers and sisters. the best thing i heard, my friend stacy abrams who is here

today and will speak, i'm just dealing, to be honest with you. she said the economy is doing really good for people in the stock market, not so good for people in the supermarket. people want to be able to do those things for their families to move forward. >> good luck in your re-election, i'm glad i get the chance to thank you in person for the work you did as a civil rights lawyer. that's some of the most important work you've done. i know being a senator is really cool. i'm very excited to meet you because of that. >> you're very kind. thanks for having me. up next, donald trump tried to found presidential about coronavirus. the tape doesn't lie. details when we come back. (howling wind)

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politicizing the coronavirus, and this is their new hoax. >> joining me now is dr. patel, senior fellow at the brookings institute and former health care policy adviser in the obama white house. thank you so much for being here, great to talk with you. i want to start by playing for you the president's chief of staff saying the way the press is covering the coronavirus is the problem, not coronavirus. take a listen. >> we took extraordinary steps four or five weeks ago. why didn't you hear about it? what was still going on four or five weeks ago? impeachment, and that's all the press wanted to talk about. >> the press was covering their hoax of the day because they thought it would bring down the president. the reason you're seeing so much attention on it today is they think this is what's going to bring down the president. that's what this is all about.

>> both as a former member of the obama white house, a health professional and just as a television viewer, is it your perception that the reason that the media is covering the coronavirus outbreaks around the world is simply to hurt donald trump? >> no, joy. it couldn't be farther from the truth. quite honestly, it's pretty insulting to everybody's intelligence to posture that. the fact is that the administration -- forget comparing it to what i think was a really excellent response during the obama administration for h1n1, ebola, sars, et cetera, but in general they eve been behind in every kind of milestone from expanding fda authority to test as well as also asking congress for money to send to local and regional public health authorities. it's insulting to imply this is political. it's science, not politics. >> the other thing is, you've worked in an administration,

presidential administration or at least a policy adviser in one. i wonder how this strikes you. i want you to watch the secretary of state. this is an international crisis. the secretary of state has some role here in trying to coordinate and help the united states be a part of the solution and not the problem. here is a congressman from california, ted lu, questioning the secretary of state and asking him a very simple question that alludes to what donald trump said. take a listen to his inability to answer. >> you agree with donald trump's chief of staff mulvaney that the coronavirus is the hoax of the day. >> the state department is doing everything it can to protect american -- >> you believe coronavirus -- >> i'm not going to comment on what others are saying. >> i'm asking you, do you believe the coronavirus is a hoax. >> we're working to keep people safe. >> you can't even answer the question. it's not a gotcha question.

>> it's a gotcha moment. it's not useful. >> he refused to simply say it's not a hoax. what do you make of that? >> it's just another disturbing way of politicizing again what there is really no politics around. people are dying, not just the first death reported in the united states. what does that say to all the citizens around the country. we've got americans overseas serving in the name of our country who have been sick and those who have actually passed away from this, including, joy, there are probably deaths that we had no idea that were from coronavirus because of the limited testing ability. this is sending a signal to the world that there's no room in the trump administration for facts. to taxpayers all around, republicans and democrats alike, we really should -- i think media has a responsibility to step up and shed sunlight on what's happening in the world.

>> the thing is with donald trump, his supporters only really believe him. he makes sure that the people who work for him only praise him and cannot refute him, even if he says something like -- implies the whole virus is a hoax which is actually endangering his own people. then he says things like that, donald trump playing, as if he's in your former role in the obama administration and ask you whether or not what he's saying should be believed by anyone, even his supporters. take a listen. >> additional cases in the united states are likely but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think that will be a statement we can make with great surety now that we've gotten familiar with this problem. they should be able to rekof should they contract the virus. so healthy people, if you're healthy, you will probably go

through a process and you'll be fine. >> i think it is recoverable. i feel like i've heard that from medical professionals. what does this mean, you'll probably go through a process and you're fine. what does that mean? >> not only -- first of all, not only is it inaccurate to just reassure the public that if you're, quote, healthy -- first of all, what does that even mean? secondly, you're ignoring public health 101. the message should be, there is no need to panic but go back to wash your hands. if you, yourself, are sick, try to minimize contact with people especially those who are immunocompromised or elderly. that is the message. how to even interpret, joy, these bizarre comments and to be candid, it's even more disturbing to watch him stand at a podium with really credible

health professionals behind him -- we have a surgeon general, head of an nih institute that have decades of credibility, and somehow it's hard to believe that they're not being silenced or muted, because i know those people and they do not believe this. we are absolutely -- i think you and media in general actually has to be the responsible voice of how to give direction to the country. that quite honestly makes me very sad that that's where we've come. >> before i let you go, i have to show the audience this photograph. just talking to you is a reminder of when we had an administration where women and people of color -- there is one person of color in that picture, just an interesting note that all of the people on donald trump's task force head by mike pence of all people whose hiv management in indiana left something to be desired, that's

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i know racism when i see it. i know racism when i feel it. some of us have been victims of the stain, the pain and the hurt of racism. in the '50s and '60s, segregationists told us to go back when we protested for our rights. they told minister, priests, rabbis and nuns to go back. they told the innocent little children seeking just an equal education to go back.

as a nation and as a people, we need to go forward and not backward. >> civil rights icon john lewis was one of the architects of what was supposed to be a peaceful march across the edmund pettus bridge in selma to the state capitol in montgomery in 1965. next sunday, march 7th, marks the 55th anniversary of the event dubbed bloody sun after police brutally attacked and beat demonstrators including now congressman lewis who at the time was just 25 years old. some of the presidential hopefuls will be here all week to participate in activities leading up to sunday's official commemoration. this afternoon i'll co-moderate a forum featuring senators elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar. joining me now, congresswoman terry sewell whose district includes selma. reverend mike thompson, my co-moderator for the candidates' forum this afternoon and the host of "make it plain" with

mark thompson, and melanie campbell national convener for the black women's roundtable. a great panel. i have to start with the congresswoman. in your district. >> my hometown. >> your home church. this is very personal for you. >> very personal. >> what does it mean in this era? the last time i was here was in the obama era. it feels different. >> it is different. i think we have a person in the white house is the biggest threat to my district and to the united states in the sense that he has really taken incivility to a new level and discord. i'm glad we're here in selma to celebrate the 55th anniversary. it's a time for remembrance and also a time for us to be renewed from the inspiration of folks like john lewis and a time to rededicate ourselves to the cause we fought for since we have voter suppression at levels we haven't seen before.

the shelby versus holder decision gutted it. while we were able to pass hr-4 through the house of representatives, it's languishing on the senate side along with hundreds of other bipartisan bills mitch mcconnell won't put on the floor. >> we need to restore the voting rights act. every election is consequential. but this election is particularly consequential because we need to not make this the new normal. when i talked to people in my district, they are so afraid that this chaos that we're witnessing in the white house and in this administration is going to become the new normal. it can't be. we want to return to civility. >> it's a strange time in the country. we have these presidential candidates coming -- at least some are coming. some others will speak at the chapel before there's a

community watch, community march over the edmund pettus bridge which will be exciting to be a part of. i think the point the congresswoman just made is important. the senate is where the supreme court nominees emerge from. the court is tipping on the balance of being a 40-year nightmare for this district and for people of color in this country. and the census this year which the president already tried to undermine, this feels in so many ways like an election that's at the edge of a cliff. >> yes. thank you so much for coming to selma. we think of selma as a small town, but it changed the world. we literally did. we were talking about that last night in terms of the courts. he's making appointments of judges that, not just the national bar association disapproves of, that's african-american lawyers, the american bar association is saying, if you have any kind of degree and no experience, you can be a lifetime appointment. i think there's a historical precedent for this.

we had the right to vote 100 years before selma, after civil war, reconstruction. then there was reclamation, jim crow. so here we are 55 years after selma, america seems to go through that. there's a pushback. we know it's largely a reaction to what we might consider another reconstruction of electing the first black president. we have to wake up and realize, it doesn't take much to go back. we have to stay vigilant. >> how ironic is it, melanie, to mark the 55 pgt th anniversary e bloody bodies that created the voting rights act, to have the act under threat, gutted, and everyone is counting on the chief justice of the supreme court who has been opposed to it. if he's the hope, it's not easy to feel hopeful.

>> i also think this is a movement moment. i've been coming to selma since i was a student, some time ago. 25 years ago with reverend orange and i coordinated the march from selma to montgomery, that 54 miles. when i come back to selma, it reminds me why i do this. you kind of get renewed here coming to selma. i think the reality is we're in this moment where this threat that we're talking about is only a manifestation of what was already there. the racism. we know through all the research we've done for black women, we know that racism and white nationalism and hate crimes and all these isms that are taking place, that are manifested through this president that we currently have, we know -- there's a drum beat going. i was in south carolina, on the ground in south carolina and have been here for a couple of days. there's a conversation going on.

i was at the delta days two weeks ago. the conversations taking place is we have to turn out. we have to also be concerned because we don't have the voting rights act, that we have to overperform in this election cycle. it's a movement. i think folks will rise up. >> i wish we had more time. based on the turnout in south carolina, it sounds like the black community is ready. >> we're ready. >> i'm a biden supporter, and i just think we saw the tail wind. i think the wind is at his back and i look forward to welcoming him to brown chapel. this will be the first census we'll have without the full protection of the voting rights act. >> the armageddon reaction. thank you all so much. i'll see you on the bridge. >> vote and be counted. that's our campaign. >> you need to do both of those two things. coming up at the top of the

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good evening. i know this has been a very worrisome week for some americans.

the coronavirus is spreading and the economy is taking a hit. markets have fallen because of uncertainty. at times like this, it's the job of the president to reassure the public that he or she is taking all the necessary steps to protect the health and well-being of every citizen. good morning and welcome back to "am joy." that's just a small snippet of what's to come from normer new york mayor michael bloomberg, who will release a whole three-minute prime time tv ad to capitalize on donald trump's terrible response to coronavirus this week. the ad is weirdly reminiscent of a presidential address, american flag in the back drop and all. with bloomberg's clear aim to present a stark contrast between himself and donald trump ahead of super tuesday, because after being off the ballot in the first four primary states, things are about to get real for michael bloomberg. for the first time voters in the

upcoming states on super tuesday will have bloomberg on the ballot. and after pouring a massive $218 million in ads across multiple states, far outspending all of his democratic rivals, the bloomberg is betting big on super tuesday. but is playing faux president just one little step too weird? joining me now to contemplate is will bunch, national opinion columnist of the "philadelphia inquirer," aelisa garza, tiffany cross, fellow at harvard kennedy school and t.j., author of "code red." i love that title. we have to have you back on just to talk about that. let's go in the order i introduced you. will, it's weird. it's basically michael bloomberg kind of pretending to be the president. is it too weird or just do you think it might work, because donald trump has been so bad at

his response? >> no, joy, it's very weird. it's kind of a "west wing," president bartlett addresses the nation. i've never seen anything quite like it. we've never seen anything like the michael bloomberg campaign, period. i've been out in california all week covering super tuesday for the "philadelphia inquirer" and bloomberg is carpet bombing the state with ads. his campaign is basically -- it's a mile wide and an inch deep, basically. he's all over the air waves. he's got numerous endorsements out here from public officials. really an mazing roster of people who he's donated to their campaigns or he supported some philanthropy they're behind. i went to bloomberg event friday night in chinatown and there were probably more elected officials there than voters. that and media both from the united states and from asia

swarming around. bloomberg wasn't there but his partner, diana taylor, was there speaking for him. and, you know, this is just such a huge state. and you really need -- you really need to be out there talking to the voters. i mean, he's got offices all over the state, but i just don't know if this, you know, carpet bombing the air waves approach is really going to do it for him in california and there's 415 delegates at stake and it's going to dwarf anything that's happened so far. >> and alisia and dean, he's like a faux president except in a world where neither of you exist, right? like, stop and frisk and black lives matter and, you know, the surveillance of muslims in new york and the central park five. like, all the issues you guys have devoted so much time and effort to, they didn't exist. can he paper over that by just

contrasting himself because he's also competent and he's serious and sober and he wouldn't do something like say coronavirus is fake. so, on the one hand he is a good manager, way better than what donald trump has shown, but can he paper over the other things by just seeming presidential? >> well, i think that's really going to depend on what happens with younger black voters in this primary. you know, the idea that he is a good manager is absolutely correct and i think for some older black voters, that's exactly what i'm hearing they want. they want a return to normalcy. they want to make sure the current president is no longer in office and they want to see somebody who they think can beat him. whereas i think on the younger voter side and particularly younger black voters, i think folks are really looking for a change in how systems function

and will be willing and serious about holding michael bloomberg and other candidates who don't have the best track record on race accountable. where it's really going to fall down, i think, is to see how black voters on the younger side actually participate in this upcoming primary. that's going to be the difference as to whether or not michael bloomberg is able to kind of erase or wash over his very troublesome record with not just black communities but communities of color. >> yeah. dean, we haven't talked as much about what the muslim community went through in new york. you and i talked about it offline. but it's a thing that's there. is he a thing he can get past by being better than trump at president? >> i'm looking forward to that commercial. it looks like he had the white house rebuilt on his front lawn. >> he can afford to do that. >> it's my den where i take a

nap every day. look, here's the thing. i have to be blunt. as mayor of new york, michael bloomberg, the way he governed was that white people have more rights than minorities and minorities, our rights were easy to dismiss and discard if it meant achieving a policy. stop and frisk, we know ove million black and brown people were harassed, thrown up against theo that. that's up to the black and brown communities to accept that apology or not. i'm not here to say don't accept it. he could have evolved. when it comes to muslims, he did for ten years surveillance of where we work, where we pray, where we eat, where we socialize. and when asked about it a few days ago on pbs, he didn't apologize. he defended it. and he said, i had to go where the bad people were essentially. when you hear his language, he goes, well, that's where the bad

people came from that attacked us, you understand stop and frisk as well. michael bloomberg will define minorities by the worst examples that impose and implement policies based on those caricatures he's created. he defended this religious profiling of muslims. i can tell you in new york and many muslims who were sustained and went through this have written great articles about it, the impact on muslim businesses because they found in surveillance, muslims wouldn't come there anymore, fearful they would be caught up in this, mosques meaning less contributions to keep the mosques going. to the sense of, if you meet somebody new in your community, you don't know if they're a muslim or nypd officer pretending to be muslim. what that did to our community caused a great deal of stress, antagonism. it caused people not to know who to trust. michael bloomberg had a chance to apologize thursday and he didn't. i hope states like virginia --

make it clear. if you do not apologize -- if you do not denounce this horrible stuffer you did to us, i hope he pays at the ballot box for us. >> let me go to tiffany on this. here's the thing. yesterday we did -- the other day we did a really great focus group all under 30, black voters in south carolina. the one question that they were unanimous on is that -- and to the point we made earlier, whether younger black voters were open, they were, no, they were 100% no. that was the more moderate young man named jaleel, who is for sanders, all the way to the voter who was between bernie sanders and biden and much more progressive. there was an absolute hard no. as i'm looking forward at these states, bernie sanders raised $46 million in february, which was a record for 2020. but when you contrast that with just what the ad spend is just for super tuesday alone, bloomberg just blows that out of

the water. he's $218 million already up -- you know, spent. he's the biggest spender. steyer, who has now dropped out, $41 million. sanders is down at $15.5 million. the thing is, is it possible -- just in california, one more number. only in california alone, $78 million just in california. just in one state. can bloomberg do this faux president thing? he can afford to put on his own state of the union address and pay for it. can that paper over things with black voters, brown voters, muslim, snets. >> i don't think so. kudos, thank you for being a face in journalism talking to young black voters instead of about them. i'm happy to see that segment. in terms of bloomberg and his spending, look, i will say that bloomberg did the best clap-back

ad. if you're trying to be king of the clap-backs, kudos to you but that does not a president make. when you get to spaces like california, north carolina, super tuesday states where over 130 million people reside, i think it's going to take more. quite frankly, when you put those ads aside, he has great people working for him, cornel belter, these are all talented campaigners but when when voters get to see the candidate themselves, their response is, no thanks. we'll see who else is out there. i don't know who his base is, who rides with you, other than mayors you have funded and campaigns you have funded over the years -- to will's point, you cannot win this likz on elected officials alone. so, i think, you know, voters have a long memory. we tend to talk about stop and frisk in new york. but that's just because new york gave it a name. that was a lifestyle, is a lifestyle for many black americans and brown people

across this country who experience, you know, driving while black or the regular aggressions some people endure on a daily basis. he does represent the face of that as a slow drip of commentary and comments he's made over the years where he seems to double down on on it. his apology falls short of sincere because it's, oops, my bad. still the lack of ability to see what it's rooted in. instead of, this policy never should have existed. nobody was stopping and frisking on wall street where i'm sure you could have found some cocaine somewhere. it's bs and voters aren't buying it. he's made a big bet on virginia, which i find interesting. he's spent a ton of money. seven field offices, 80 staffers working there. i don't know if they're going to buy it and i know bernie had a

good hall. obama raised in 2008 $55 million. he is also somebody that can't topple but you have to have somebody to inspire to give you that. i don't think bloomberg has that. >> withaell, there's the questi e.j., and i'm hearing it from a lot of people. a lot of texts were bloomberg should back biden. biden when he seemed to be weak tempted a lot of replacement bidens to get into the race. for a while a lot of them have been up, down. but bloomberg is sitting at about 12% in california, for instance. bernie sanders is at 35%. if the idea that bloomberg had was he wanted to prevent bernie sanders from being the nominee for his own reasons or elizabeth warren, if you add up everybody else, he could do that if he

just picked somebody who seemed viable and backed them. is that a cogent argument and do you get the sense he would listen to that argument? >> not before super tuesday. i like that phrase, replacement joe bidens because that really captures something. when i saw that ad, it reminded me of an old campaign button for senator musky when nixon was in the president and the button said, president musky, don't you feel better already? it didn't work for musky. mcgovern won. i don't think it will work for bloomberg this time. i think the key is south carolina that joe biden and we're talking about the african-american vote where there are clearly splits, as your focus group showed between older and younger african-americans. i think south carolina sent a message all across the african-american community. 70%, roughly, of joe biden's

votes in south carolina came from african-americans. there's a word for that. the word is power. and i think in these primary states where the african-american vote is going to be very important, that sends a signal to african-american voters that there's one candidate who will have a responsibility and a debt to african-american voters and that's joe biden. i think in another world where joe biden had faltered and had not won south carolina, this bloomberg effort might be able to make inroads with older voters given all those endorsements he's got from african-american mayors, even though stop and frisk and all of that makes a lot of people reluctant to back him. i think now he could stop biden from winning in texas. there was a poll that showed with bloomberg on the list, biden and bernie are basically neck and neck without bloomberg, biden wins texas easily. the only way he could help biden

by taking delegates away from bernie is hitting threshold in a few of these states. you're absolutely right to point to california. if nobody else hits threshold, then bernie sanders gets all -- i believe it's 144 statewide delegates so that caught-up vote is a real problem. i think at least now sanders is going to hit the threshold there. >> yeah. will, i know you've been a fan of the warren candidacy. it feels like one thing the electorate is saying anything is female candidates need not apply, unfortunately. do you get that sense? if that is true, then it's going to be a challenge for the two female candidates left in the race to make a viability argument? what do you make of that? >> yeah, i think that's right.

i think california is going to be critical for the warren campaign because the polls i've seen out here show her running second now. in some of the polls she's the only other person besides bernie for getting that 15% delegate level. she definitely has a visibility effort here in terms she does have a lot of young support. a lot of young people are canvassing for warren and not sanders. i think it's california or bust, frankly. there's a couple other states that -- like virginia and her home state of massachusetts where she might do well on tuesday. but it's been a shame. she's done so well in convincing the throughout leaders in the black and brown communities to support her but that support from professors and intellectuals hasn't transferred to the rank and file voter. that's what you saw in south carolina saturday night.

you saw -- you saw the rank and file average voter just wanting somebody they knew, somebody who was dependable and that was joe biden. i think super tuesday will be a last stand for the warren campaign. >> can i just piggyback on what will said? it's not necessarily -- i totally take your point, will. i don't disagree with that. like i said many times, black voters are practical. i think a lot of black voters look at elizabeth warren and like what she's saying. they like what she's saying about race. she has a proven record when she created the consumer financial protection bureau. sorry if i screwed up that name. she has a record of prioritizing communities of color. i think when it comes to actual black voters, they think people won't vote for her. they think white women will vote against their own self-interest. they think of the 53% who voted for an openly mysogenist

president. i think in the black community there are even conversations of sexism that need to happen. for this one shot to get rid of this president who they view as an existential threat to america, rightfully so, they are not really willing to take a risk on somebody like warren, despite her running an amazing campaign. >> i couldn't agree more. alicia, i know you have some doubt -- to back it up. the people we talked to, the young voters we talked to, two were for elizabeth warren, two for biden, one was undecided and leaning biden. i have seen an an anectdotal. you had a thought. >> yes. we need to retire this notion that elizabeth warren can't get black support. i agree with tiffany when she says, first of all, black support is nuanced in a bunch of different ways. one of the major issues i do know elizabeth warren is running

into is this issue, will we take a risk on her. electing the first female president of the united states is a risk. we've seen it's a risk we believe is a worthy one. i will also say in relationship to black voters and this upcoming primary and the democratic party, i do think we're getting to the point where we do need to hone in on the fact that this primary is attempting to be bought by billionaires entering the race and wanting to not only buy black support, right, but they want to say to people that they're going to return to normalcy but have no plan to do so. and i think when we poll our supporters, we did a large census called the black census project. talked to more than 30,000 black people across the country from various political perspectives.

candidates like michael bloomberg and, frankly, candidates like joe biden didn't register in the same way candidates like bernie sanders or elizabeth warren did. so whe have to be mindful that from now until july it's a ground game. we have to make sure we're not taking for granted that black voters are want just practical we're also looking for someone who's capable of not just managing the status quo but bringing new ideas and energy not only the party but this country that can change conditions for black people. that's something we have to keep front and center. >> joy, you know, on elizabeth warren, when you -- when you led that forum of black women leaders last year, elizabeth warren killed it. it was just a superb

performance. politics is a rich or get richer business. not in terms of money but if you're doing well in the polls, people say you're viable and then they are more open to you. you made this point. black voters are the most progress mattick group in the elector rat. if warren looked stronger, she could be stronger among african-american voters. her problem is she fell back and i think it's much harder. >> i was just going to say. >> no, absolutely. >> women have an uphill battle in the perception of being strong, being capable or being committed. frankly, it's a huge wait that women candidates or black candidates, frankly, have scared in this primary and it's incredibly unfair. >> absolutely. dean, the thing i heard, just to wrap up on this and bring bloomberg into it, too, i think

the two texts i was getting the most is bloomberg would serve the country better by just backing biden or whoever seems viable and a lot of people who were saying, oh, you know, elizabeth warren has attracted a lot of interest. she seems to be the second pick, the plan "b" for a lot of voters and not able to get to plan "a" in enough states but someone they would like to hang around until the convention. what are you hearing? >> what i'm hearing from listeners is the reverse. black listeners call and say, i was for warren but now i'm looking towards bloomberg because the sense maybe he can beat donald trump. it keeps going back to that -- i wish it was an open seat election. i think we would be nominating someone far differently. instead of a race with two older white men, from a field that was beautifully diverse. i think that's why michael

bloomberg apologized to black and brown voters, because he can't win the nomination without them. but for muslims, we don't matter. to be candid, in the past, he was right but he'll find out in states like virginia and michigan, things have changed. donald trump has -- he drove us to the ballot box and on the ballot and now muslim elected officials than ever. i think power is a big thing and i think bloomberg will see the muslim community in some states come out against him. >> well, it's going to be interesting to see where it goes. michael bloomberg for a lot of people is now just detracting from biden who gave himself a shot in the arm. we'll see what happens. thank you for being here. up next, defining the democratic base. ♪ limu emu & doug [ siren ]

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we have the option to win them big or lose them big. that's the choice. we need to build on the coalition and legacy of the most successful president of our lifetime, barack obama. and the way we do this is by bringing america together with every race, ethnicity, gender, economic station, democrats, republicans, independents, people of every stripe. >> people of every stripe, indeed. joe biden's big win last night in south carolina was fueled by black voters. just last week, bernie sanders claimed a colossal victory in nevada powered by latinx voters. the two candidates oppose ideological wings, moderates and progressive. what does this say about the true base or driving base this season of the democratic party? back with me, alisia and joining me is the director for political

network alliance. jess, thank you for joining us this earning month. i'm going to show you two back-to-back pieces of data. this is south carolina. biden among black voters just dominated. he got 61% of the vote. and i'm going to show you a little later by age, it really wasn't that much of a difference. older and younger black voters were pretty much aligned. it was very close. he almost got all the black vote. then you look at nevada and it's very different. bernie sanders similarly dominant among latinx voters. you have roughly equal in the size in the united states, is it now part of -- i don't want to say it's a divide but it is definitely a difference. >> it's a difference. i wouldn't call it a divide. i do think it's about outreach, to be totally frank. you know, in nevada, bernie sanders' campaign spent over a year doing a lot of concerted

outreach to latino voters and it worked. similarly joe biden has been banking on a big south carolina win for this entire time. in a lean campaign he has spent money, he has a lot of staff. i think that makes the difference in communities of color when you spend time engaging with us, talking to us with a message that is actually for us and not just something that is a little adopted from the message to dominant white voters. that's something other candidates still have available to them and something people should learn for the general election. >> and there is a difference. i like just calling it a difference. but bernie sanders does have a really devoted contingent of black voters. at least surrogates. there are black members of his revolution, phil agnew was on our show yesterday. so, there is a piece of it. what do you think is the difference in the way that his campaign is landing among black

voters as opposed to latinx voters? i know you did a lot of surveys. what are you seeing there? >> again, i think it's for very similar reasons that young black voters are supporting bernie sanders, as young latino voters are supporting bernie sanders. really, the issues around the economy, issues around changing the rules that left our community left behind and i agree with jess. it's very much a question in the way politics usually happens. one thing we know happens with black voters all the time is people talk to us when elections are happening and then they don't talk to us for the rest of the year. that helps to drive a deep left of distrust and a deep level of disconnection between our communities and candidates. it's also what drives our pragmatism around who we vote for. the reality is the bernie sanders campaign has really done a lot of investments.

they know that they didn't do great last time around in terms of reaching communities of color and black voters. over the last four years, they have been building infrastructure and going deep in black communities, particularly among young black voters to make sure the outcome is different than 2016 and i do believe we're seeing the results of that. >> i'm just going to show this graphic. oh, i'm sorry. go ahead. >> i was just going to say, you know, i think another thing, too, this is the democratic primary. people who vote in the democratic primary are extremely high-information voters. they've been listening to whether or not candidates are actually talking about the plans that they care about, talking about the issues they care about. whether or not they're putting a lens of communities of color on economic issues, on health care issues. i think that's important as we move forward for joe biden to continue to get the kind of

support he needs. can he actually speak, in particular, to young black voters and for bernie sanders, i think, can he actually talk to older voters who historically are more reliable in primaries. >> yeah, that turn out more. to show this really quickly because these exit polls are fascinating. just doing it by age. 17 to 29 is, of course -- was the strongest share for bernie sanders but it was still under biden. at least in south carolina. it was fairly close but markedly -- there's markedly more biden support as you go up in age. so, i think that aligns with what our two guests are saying. let's look at the two sets of states coming up. we're not trying to dwi them up to say they're in opposition of each other but just different games that have to be played by these campaigns. texas, colorado have a significant number of latinx voters where texas is 29%. it's almost like is south

carolina with black voters, so is california with latinx and colorado is close. those can be seen as sanders-friendly states. these are the states where biden is expected to do well, and that's across the south. texas is probably going to be contested. i wonder if there's a message that either of these two or any other candidate, elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg, any of them, is there a unified message that might work across those two spectrums? >> yeah, certainly a message about health care and the economy. but we're also seeing voters care about a number of issues they thought niche. immigration is coming up as a top fivyish. people have to talk about a vision of a new way of health care. they will have to talk about

jobs, how they're going to fight against a recession but also going to have to talk about trump's number one issue of immigration. as they head into the south, really talking about a specific southern message of infrastructure and support. that's a lot to do in just a couple of days. and i think be if you haven't had an operation there, it's going to be tough. >> i couldn't agree more. i think be one thing that's going to be really, really important is what we do know is those southern voters will vote a particular way. we also know the coastal voters will vote a particular way. the thing i think that cuts across is actually the new voters we're able to bring into this electoral cycle. if any of these campaigns don't do the investment they need to to expand the electorate and turn out voters who have been increasingly political over the past five years but have not been invited into elections,

then what we'll see is what we usually see in general elections where, frankly, those southern states are going to vote more moderately and, i think, bernie sanders might be a little too left for them. the thing that comes across is, if we really want to see change in this countries, we have to make sure we have somebody who both has a vision for what to do and how to do it. and that that vision includes all of us, including immigrants, black communities, latinx communities, et cetera. >> absolutely. i'm going to show one last thing because this is fascinating. remember, clinton versus trump, white voters overwhelmingly voted for trump, 71%. black voters only 8% voted for trump. just going across the racial lens here. it was pretty stark. aapi voters slightly more -- closer to latinx voters. that's what we're looking at going into this election. thank you both very much. >> thank you.

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you essentially said you're going to win big or lose big. so, do you believe bernie

sanders would lead the democratic party to a big loss? >> i do. i think bernie sanders' position on a number of the issues, even in the democratic party, are going to be very -- are very controversial. all i know is why i think we should -- why i should be the nominee, why i think we have such an enormous opportunity and why i think people are not -- they're not looking for evolution. they're looking for ruls. they want to make sure their work gets rewarded. they want to make sure they have access to health care, not a pie in the sky notion that we can get it done immediately, they can be covered quickly. >> former vice president joe biden is taking a victory lap this morning after his massive win in south carolina last night and also sending a pretty pointed message to bernie sanders. biden made the rounds on four of the sunday talk shows, including "meet the press." joining me now is michael steele, former rnc chairman and

msnbc political analyst, dana milbanks and back with me, tiffany cross. first, let's look at biden's fund-raising. this is what you call a bump. yesterday this -- this is a biden tweet. they raised $5 million online from tens of thousands of new supporters. you did this. we'll get the nomination to beat donald trump. chip in and keep us going. you have him touting lots of money that he raised. and then he's asked this morning about whether or not after all of this, he still might end up in a brokered convention. here he is. >> do you think you can win this primary before the convention or -- >> i know i can. >> it's inevitable you and sanders may have to work this out at the convention? >> i think i can win it before the convention. but, again, i'm not -- look, all i know is i think we're moving into constituencies are constituencies, when they hear me have always been mine, diverse communities, white working class folks, people -- african-americans and hispanics,

people in the middle class can, women in the suburbs. they are places i've always been very strong my whole career. one of the reasons i was asked to join the ticket with barack obama in 2008. >> michael steele, on your side of the aisle, you all have been through a convention fight. ted cruz fought it all the way to the convention. it normally doesn't go well. it didn't hurt donald trump. so from your party chairman view, looking from the other side, 30,000-foot-view, and you can be objective because you're not in the party, would a brokered convention be damaging to the ultimate nominee or is it possible the nominee can come out of it and win like donald trump anyway? >> i think the reality here is bernie sanders. ted cruz is not bernie sanders. ted cruz supporters were not bernie bros. the attitude, the response they may have to a convention,

particularly if bernie goes in close if not solidly ahead, that they're going to give up that ground and see that ground and then you have the weight of the super delegates who may then come into play. if i were a super delegate, i would declare who i support now. if that's joe biden, i would lie that track now as opposed to waiting to get to the summer and the convention. i don't think it is a good idea to have a broker ed convention for democrats because the anamous at the base level is going to be so thick -- we saw the hold overfrom the sanders/hillary clinton battle, which is raw to this day. you talk to bernie and clinton supporters will go on for a long time about how much they do want like the other. so, if bernie people, joy, get this close and they don't get this, yeah, that's going to -- could potentially be a problem

and it's going to take every ounce of magic dust joe biden and the party can come up with to sue -- to go into battle against donald trump. >> yeah, i mean, it is ironic because at the time the sanders force, were saying the person with the most delegates, even if they didn't have enough delegates, super delegates should come in and award him the nomination. >> that's right. >> the rules were really changed for him. we're now living under the rules his team negotiated. that's how politics is. everybody changes sides. let's play bernie sanders on abc's "this week" and this is what makes people wonder if there can ever be a marriage of the two wings of the liberal side of the world because of independents and democrats. take a listen. >> the corporate wing of the democratic party, a group called third way attacked me and said, we're -- said i'm an existential threat to the democratic party.

what i said is, yeah, i'm existential threat to the corporate wing of the democratic party. for too long the democratic party and leaders have been going to rich people's homes, raising money and they ignored the working class and middle class and low income people in this country. that has got to change. >> i mean, that's really a thing that's happening, dana. that's a real sentiment out there. it's not just bernie sanders who thinks it. it could be the thing that breaks the democratic party. >> yeah, i think that is a very big concern, joy. i think the idea of a broker ed convention, we always talk about it at this point in the cycle, it has never happened in the modern era. i'd be surprised if it happens this time either. if bernie gets close enough, basically you have a choice. you either give him the nomination or you don't give him the nomination and he takes all his toys and he goes home and donald trump is re-elected. it doesn't really work in the reverse. the supporters of the other

candidates will come around and support bernie holding their nose if they have to, about but the dynamic could change very quickly here if we have one in the democratic party, one alternative to bernie, if it's joe biden, as it now appears to be or somebody else. when it was split among four or five people, it was definitely going to be bernie. now you have someone with a clear shot at him one-on-one, this could change quickly. >> absolutely. let me play two yeaback-to-back thoughts. here's donald trump jr. talking about coronavirus. >> for them to take a pandemic and seemingly hope it comes here and kills millions of people so that they could end donald trump's streak of winning is a new level of sickness. >> if i have time -- do i have time or should i just read it? mike pence responded to that.

that was friday. here's vice president mike pence being asked about that comment today on cnn. >> there has been some very strong rhetoric directed at the president by some members of congress and -- >> you don't think that was a strong rhetoric? >> he said seemingly democrats want millions of americans to die of coronavirus. >> responding to the kind of things that have been hurled is understandable, but what the president's charged us to do, in my conversations with speaker pelosi, senator schumer, my conversations with democratic and republican governors, is to set the politics aside and to work the problem. >> tiffany cross, your witness. >> i mean, this is so ridiculous. first, i want to say how serious the coronavirus is. we should all be taking it seriously. that's not to say everybody should be in a state of panic but it's a human issue, also an economic issue. and i think the biggest issue is the public does not have confidence in this

administration to handle it. i do not have confidence in mr. pray away the gay and rob all the adult film actresses to handle something this serious when it comes to our own health issues. this is a serious problem. for mike pence when he came out, i saw that interview live, for him to not just immediately say, look, obviously no one wants the coronavirus to get here, which is what donald trump jr. was saying. they politicized this issue. if you don't have public confidence in their ability to handle this, the markets will continue to suffer and it will cast a dark shadow over a lot of aspects over american life and we better start taking it seriously. >> yeah, absolutely. secretary of state can't even say it's not a hoax. he won't do it. michael steele, thank you very much. dana and tiffany, will stick around. up next, who won the week? i'm your mother in law.

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time for, ah, yes, who won the week. dana milbank, tiffany cross, who won the week? >> who won the week for me is nia dennis. this young lady is a gymnast at ucla and she slayed. she did her entire routine to beyonce. joy, i saw you tweet about it. i know we agreed on this. >> ma'am, everything. >> that's why you called out black history month, even with the ponytail grab. it was her 21st birthday. she slayed to b-day on her b-day. i expect big thing from her, a long time professional athlete. loved it. >> even if you are not even into athletics, not into gymnastics, whatever, you must watch this.

karine jean-pierre tweeted this. it was glorious. girl, tweet it out. it was amazing. tiffany, that was a good choice. i feel so sorry for you, dana, how will you beat that? that was the most amazing routine. i feel so bad for you. but go on, who won the week? >> there wasn't so much good news to win the week with this week. it wasn't quite as glorious as that but i want to award it to ronny jackson, remember the white house doctor who said the president is in extremely good health, he could live to be 200. he's back, now running for congress. he gave an interview to "the new york times" and he explained what he did to try to get trump healthy, he said he hid the ice cream from him and tried to sneak cauliflower into his mashed potatoes. it occurs to me, this is a brilliant idea, we could get trump to do all kind of things right thing, sneak mega doses of tryptophan into his meatloaf,

the guy will calm down and stop talking about hoaxes and we'll concur the coronavirus together. >> that's not cauliflower, we wouldn't feed you cauliflower, mr. president, we respect you too much. you done good, dana. but i have to say you're both wrong. as good as both your choices were, and i love the idea of a cauliflower sundae, going into the white house, the winner of the week has to be james clyburn, house majority whip james clyburn showed us the meaning of what political power and influence are about. it's not just about having high position. it's about having people trust you. we heard over and over again anecdotally from voters, even on the set we were on, the place we were broadcasting, that his endorsement for joe biden was the game changer for a lot of

people. trusted voices within the black community, tiffany, i know you'll amen me on this, are counted on, are relied upon. james clyburn has been in this game a very long time. when he spoke up for joe biden, it made a difference. i have to say he won the week. he's also a wonderful person. his top staffer, jamie harrison, is polling really close to lindsey graham, giving him the run of his life. he's going to actually have to work for it. he only wins in the low 50s, it's not like he wins these saddam hussein style numbers when he gets elected. jamie harrison, trained in this business by james clyburn, he had a great ad out showing lindsey graham insulting donald trump. let's give them all brussels sprouts. >> they are the king makers, you need them on your team. >> yes. >> and jamie harrison, you're right, he's giving lindsey graham a run for the money.

all this talk about the south is red, the south is only red until it ain't. >> that's right. and dana, this is the thing that the democrats miss every time, they don't play in the south. north carolina was won by barack obama, indiana was too. a lot of southern states are playable. democrats need to get in there, are they doing that? >> i think they are putting up serious challenges everywhere this year. doug jones has showed that's true, if for no other reason than occasionally the republicans screw up. we keep wondering if this will be the election when everything changes. no, it's probably not the election when texas goes blue, but that's maybe four years later. >> not with that attitude. not with that attitude. it all depends. get in there and work, spend some money, register voters. dana milbank, tiffany cross. more "a.m. joy" after the break. ?

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i love how james clyburn was your person of the week most only his constituents and the rest of the nation listens to him with a level of respect. so did joe biden. they had that talk in yorktown a week ago today. he said, here's what you have to do. and joe biden said, i got it. and then he put his endorsement forward, two or three days later. i love the influence that that man wields. he is remarkable. i totally applaud and agree with you on your person of the week. just thought i would say that. >> thank you so much, my friend. good day, everyone, from the brokaw news center here in los angeles. welcome, everyone, to "weekends with alex witt." from joe biden's big night to bernie sanders's money moves, how the super tuesday equation has changed in just the past few hours. >> we have an excellent chance to win some of the largest states in this country. >> things are beginning to change. >> pushing