just days ago, the press and pundits declared this candidacy dead. now, thanks to all of you, the heart of the democratic party, we just won and we've won big because of you. >> the biden campaign roars back to life after a blow out win in south carolina, while pete buttigieg and tom steyer end their campaigns ahead of super tuesday. we're going to tell you where things stand this morning. the coronavirus hits the u.s. coast to coast, the dramatic jump in cases just over the weekend including two deaths and fears that the virus went

undetected in four states for weeks. good morning, everyone, it is monday, march 2nd, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. it is the eve of super tuesday and the field is beginning to narrow down with big developments. we'll see what happens if we could lose more candidates after tomorrow. we begin with the much needed shot in the arm for biden campaign. the former vice president dominated in south carolina's primary on saturday, running away with 48% of the vote. bernie sanders came in a distant second place at 20%, tollfollowy tom steyer at eleven. pete buttigieg, amy, klobuchar, tulsi gabbard in the single digitsme digits. according to nbc exit polls, black voters made up of 56% of the democratic primary voters in the state of which biden took a commanding 61%, 81% of black

voters over the age of 65. biden dominated every age group of black voters and won the youngest 17 to 29 age bracket which typically goes to sanders by 4 points. and the endorsement of congressman jim clyburn. with four states behind us, biden trails sanders by seven delegates, 60-53. biden has overtaken sanders in the popular vote. former vice president joe biden went after senator bernie sanders in his victory speech on saturday night and again on "meet the press" just yesterday. >> if the democrats want a nominee who's a democrat, a lifelong democrat, a proud

democrat, an obama/biden democrat, then join us. we have the option of winning big or losing big. that's the choice. most americans don't want the promise of a revolution, they want more than promises, they want results. >> last night you were trying to make this a two-person race, you essentially said you're going to win big or lose big, so do you believe bernie sanders would lae 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 controversial. the idea you're going to find $60 trillion, not going to have to raise taxes on middle class people, the idea that, you know, we're talking about immigration. if bernie had voted for the -- if we had passed the immigration bill that i voted for and teddy

kennedy and others voted for ten years ago we would have 6 million people who are undocumented american citizens. everybody is going to look at bernie's record as closely as they have looked at mine and i think they're going to stairway stark differences in where we stand. >> at a campaign event yesterday, senator bernie sanders attacked joe biden's voting record. >> joe biden at a time when the american people are sick and tired of endless wars, of the terrible death rate that we have seen from these wars, the trillions of dollars we have spent on these wars, please do not forget joe biden voted for the war in iraq. at a time when the middle class of this country is struggling, joe biden voted for terrible

trade agreements like nafta and pntr with china that cost us millions of good paying jobs. joe biden voted for a bankruptcy bill, which hurt the working families of this country big time. and time and again, joe was on the floor of the senate fighting for a balanced budget amount that would can cut social security, medicare, medicaid, and veterans needs. now, my point here is not to just be negative about joe. my point is to ask you all, what campaign is going to defeat donald trump. >> after a disappointing fourth place finish in south carolina

this weekend, pete buttigieg announced that he is dropping out of the presidential race, speaking to supporters in south bend, indiana, buttigieg said he can no longer see a path to victory and his goal is to unify the party against president trump. >> after a year of going everywhere, meeting everyone, defying every expectation, seeking every vote, the truth is the path has narrowed to a close. we have a responsibility to consider effect of remaining in this race any further. our goal has always been to help unify americans to defeat donald trump and to win the era for our values. so tonight i am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency. i will no longer seek to be the 2020 democratic nominee for president, but i will do everything in my power to ensure that we have a new democratic president come january. >> and according to nbc news,

representatives from both the buttigieg and biden campaign have been in discussions about consolidating report around the former vice president. billionaire businessman tom steyer ended his democratic presidential campaign over the weekend. the announcement came after an underwhelming finish in the south carolina primary, with steyer winning 11% of the vote. >> i said if i didn't see a path to winning that i would suspend my campaign, and honestly i can't see a path where i can win the presidency. am i going to continue to work on every single one of these issues, yes, of course i am. this has been a gate experience. i have zero regrets. meeting you and the rest of the american people is the highlight of my life. >> and steyer spent nearly $160 million over the course of his presidential run. joining us now from washington, deputy news editor for the "washington examiner" david

mark. good morning to you. let's talk about tom steyer, let's talk about former mayor pete buttigieg dropping out over the weekend. how might this shift the electorate considering the reporting that we have heard about the buttigieg and biden camp talking ahead of buttigieg dropping out? >> of the two, the buttigieg departure from the race is going to have much more effect. buttigieg actually racked up a respectable amount of delegates, finished either first or second in iowa, depending how you count it and second in the new hampshire primary. so he actually does have some delegates, if he were to throw those, say, to joe biden, that would be helpful. it would also have the psychological effect of basically anointing biden as the front runner and pressuring the other candidates to drop out as well. >> david, how does joe biden's victory in south carolina change

the overall nature of the race and his momentum, if you map out the super tuesday states, where do you see him doing well? where do you see him falling up short. >> the biggest challenge for biden is making sure south carolina is not a one hit wonder, that he can actually, as you say, follow up with victories. a lot of southern and mid western states where the demographics look a lot like south carolina, there's arkansas, alabama, even in some places in the midwest skpand elsewhere, he's probably got a fighting chance. bernie sanders has been playing hard in california, in texas, the big mega states. he has had success, no votes have been cast, that we know of. we don't know the results yet so we will see. >> it's astounding this is the first time biden has won in the three times he has won for president in a primary. let's talk about the money momentum. the former vice president has an uphill battle when it comes to

fundraising in comparison to bernie sanders. >> his campaign reported over the weekend that he had raised more than $46 million in january and remember, these are relatively small dollar donations. these are donations that average under $30 or so so it allows people to give a lot more before they max out. joe biden has had a lot of money troubles. he had, i think, $8 million in the bank at the end of the last quarter. he can burn through that pretty quickly in presidential politics. he's got to raise a lot of money very quickly. >> he said i believe since the debate in south carolina he's managed to raise $5 million but that may not be enough to get them to where he needs to be coming up. >> looking at some of the sanders numbers. >> 46 million in a single month. >> david mark, thank you very much, we're going to talk to you in a little bit. the united states signs a landmark agreement in the taliban in a bid to end america's longest war in afghanistan, but the peace die

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welcome back, other breaking news over the weekend. america's longest running war could finally come to an end. over the weekend, the united states signed a deal with the taliban to end the nearly two decade conflict that gripped afghanistan in the after math of the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent u.s. invasion of the country. the agreement lays out a timetable for the full withdrawal of u.s. and coalition troops from afghanistan within 14 months. initially reducing the number of u.s. forces in the country to 8,600. there are currently 13,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. the taliban agreed it would not allow afghan territory to be

used by groups or individuals to plot attacks against the united states and its allies. >> and the deal sets the stage for the after began government and the taliban to negotiate cease talks and negotiate a permanent cease fire, and talks between the rival afghan groups are slated to begin next week but after the deal was signed, negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government hit a snag over prisoner swaps. afghanistan's president said yesterday he will not free taliban prisoners, saying the release of prisoners cannot be a precondition for negotiations. on saturday president trump told reporters that he's expected to meet quote personally with taliban leaders in the not so distance future and mention the taliban at the cpac conference an annual gathering of conservatives. i'll say this of the taliban, they're great fighters, all you have to do is ask the soviet union. since the u.s. invasion, over

the past decade, 32,000 afghan civilians have been killed in the conflict. >> much of this agreement it seems to me is dependent on trust in the taliban which doesn't usually go hand in hand with the taliban. if we were to fully pull out and the taliban were not to abide by this agreement. >> would the u.s. go back in. >> would the u.s. go back in. can you reverse course. >> i think that's a question they're probably hedging their bets on that. we'll see. let's switch gears, bring in msnbc meteorologist bill karins. >> i'm paying close attention, my nephew is one of the 13,000 soldiers we have over there. let's get the boys and girls home. overnight flooding in areas of southern missouri, the springfield area, thunderstorms are moving out but we have flash flood warnings. st. louis area is okay. we're tracking rain as we head into the big super tuesday

election. new rain is going to develop. don't have a lot of snow and ice problems on super tuesday. let's start with today first. this is 6:00 a.m. this morning. rain through cincinnati, indianapolis, we just showed you the rain through tennessee and northern portions of mississippi and alabama. we tracked that today and tonight into areas, weekends as it goes through the appalachians, we're going to get a good soaking rain in west virginia for your evening ride home. hit and miss showers and storms, areas from atlanta to birmingham to montgomery. super tuesday, as we wake up and the polls begin to open up, we're going to have rain in virginia, north carolina, alabama, and areas of west texas. those are all our voting states. as we go through super tuesday, we watch rain moving through the east, areas of massachusetts will have a round of rain moving through, boston, vermont, and as the front sags to the south, we'll still be dealing with storms in southern portions of alabama, and also areas of north carolina, hit and miss showers in virginia. not a soaking rain. nothing that would stop you from

going out and voting. later on tonight. if we get severe storms a slight risk from memphis to nashville. for today, we warm it up. look at d.c. today, guys. 64 degrees this afternoon. so after a chilly weekend in the northeast. things warm up and super tuesday, it doesn't look that bad across the country. many states are perfect, including areas like california, and hit and miss storms in texas. >> good news, thanks bill. a federal judge rules that one of president trump's top immigration officials was unlawfully appointed. we're going to talk about what it means for several hard line policies he helped put in place. we're back in a moment. you should be mad at forced camaraderie. and you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not mad, because you have e*trade, who's tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts

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>> exactly. and how does this apply to cuccinelli. >> it's come up a ton during the trump administration. this is the law that sets forth the exclusive process by which president approved senate, or excuse me, presidential appointed senate approved offices are filled and the default rule is pretty basic, it's when a head leaves, the first assistant moves up into that position. makes sense so far, and that's what makes this ruling so interesting. for all its legalese, it can be boiled down to common words in the way we understand them. in this case, kumens moves up to first assistant, a few days later, someone not the president and that's important because only the president has the power to do this, wait, cuccinelli is the first assistant, but the court reasons he can't be the first assistant. he was never the first assistant to anyone. in other words, once you said he

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin this half hour with the much needed shot in the arm for the biden camp. dominating in south carolina's primary running away with 48% of the vote. bernie sanders came in a distant second place with 20%, followed by tom steyer at eleven, pete buttigieg, elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, and tulsi gabbard are in the single digits. pinned his hopes on black voters in south carolina, and they did not let him down according to nbc exit polls. black voters made up 56% of democratic primary voters in that state in which biden took a commanding 61%. with four states behind us, biden trails sanders by seven delegates, 60-53. biden has overtaken sanders the popular vote astoundingly and

following saturday's results, the democratic primary field has thinned out ahead of super tuesday with pete buttigieg and tom steyer announcing the end to their presidential campaigns. >> and amy klobuchar says she's quote not going anywhere. klobuchar's campaign expects her to win the home state of minnesota but the associated press knows it could be a toss up between. protesters took the stage to shame her for her past handling of a controversial murder case involving a young black teenager. klobuchar's delegate strategy heading into super tuesday focuses on smaller and whiter states like tennessee, alabama, arkansas. she'll host a party tomorrow night in minnesota as the primary results come in. and senator elizabeth warren has seemingly shifted her campaign focus to go after democratic presidential front runner bernie sanders. >> this crisis demands more than a senator who has good ideas but

whose 30-year track record shows he consistently calls for things that fail to get done and opposing things that he nevertheless fails to stop. we need someone whose core values can be trusted, who has a plan for how to govern and who can actually get it done. >> warren's harsh criticism of follows his strong showing of reportedly more than 13,000 the at a rally in her home state of massachusetts on saturday. despite warren's lackluster showing in south carolina's primary, her campaign is saying she is quote in the race for the long haul. warren raised her best fundraising numbers last month at $29 million. citing internal projections expects a sizable delegate haul on super tuesday. >> bernie sanders is the front

runner in texas, at 34% has a 15 point advantage against the rest of the presidential field. former vice president joe biden at 19% is statistically tied with former new york mayor michael bloomberg who sits at 15%. both sit within the poll's overall margin of error, about 5 points, followed by senators elizabeth warren at 10%. amy klobuchar at 3, and congresswoman tulsi gabbard with one. let's talk about california, who has the most delegates up for grabs. bernie sanders holds a 12 point lead over the rest of the democratic primary field, and the latest cbs news, yougov poll, up 6% since last july. he is followed by a statistical tie of joe biden with 19 and elizabeth warren with 18. both sit within the poll's 4 point margin of error. they're followed by bloomberg at 12.

amy klobuchar just 4. and tulsi gabbard with one. deputy news editor for the washington examiner david mark. let's look at some of these polls we just mentioned both out of texas, california, two of the biggest states at play for super tuesday. what do they mean for the remaining democratic presidential field besides bernie sanders. he is the front runner and if he wins those, it's safe to say he emerges on a clear path to victory or winning the delegates to become the nominee. >> on the surface, senator sanders is up by significant margins in california and texas, but of course those polls were taken before joe biden's big win south carolina on saturday. also those states apportion delegates in rather convoluted ways. in california, it's been congressional district. in texas, by state senate district, not to get too into the weaves here.

it's entirely popular that bernie sanders could get the popular vote and come up short on delegates. it has happened before in several democratic primaries. the popular vote is interesting but otherwise irrelevant. >> what do you make of senator elizabeth warren's criticism of senator sanders to date, david? you would think that she at this point would be criticizing former vice president biden more so than she would be criticizing sander, considering the fact that she aligns more with sanders than she does with biden. there's not necessarily a path forward for her to the nomination. sure things could change, things could happen but the likelihood of her getting the nomination at this point is i think we can say confidently fairly low. >> it's never been clear there's a really good overlap between her supporters and bernie sanders. those who back senator sanders do so for a variety of reasons,

one idealogically, they like the fact he's shaking up the system. there's not much evidence that many would move over to elizabeth warren if sanders started not to do well. part of the problem is this is now the third or fourth candidate she has attacked direct directly, sanders, pete buttigieg, joe biden, michael bloomberg, it looks like she's flailing about and going after whoever is in the headlines at any given moment. >> the $400 million elephant in the room is michael bloomberg. he has not been on a ballot as of yet. super tuesday for him is going to be his first test. does he have any reason to be optimistic in any of these super tuesday states when you look at some of the bigger ones, california, texas, florida, new york, doesn't seem to be doing very well on those. >> until about last week or so, polling was showing him, the scarce polling that was out was showing him ahead in states like alabama, arkansas, even in colorado in places.

that polling, we haven't seen much updated from that. joe biden will probably get a boost from his south carolina win. it's possible bloomberg has been advertising in california, and texas for weeks now, months, spending gobs of money. maybe we'll have an effect that we don't know about at this point. >> you got to wonder if the biden campaign is back channelling to the bloomberg campaign. the momentum is back with us. >> i'm not sure that's the only place they're back peddling to. >> david mark, thank you very much, always a pleasure. an effort to contain the coronavirus, following few signs that the sickness is spreading in the u.s. we're going to success the outbreak with a doctor specializing in infectious diseases. next, your first look at "morning joe" is back in a minute.

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state say the second person has died and the number of confirmed cases in king county now has risen to ten. governor jay inslee has declared a state of emergency in response. ron desantis has declared a public health emergency after two people tested positive for the virus, meaning they have been tested positive by public health laboratory but the results are pending confirmation by the cdc. in new york, governor andrew cuomo has announced the first case. to the global increase in confirmed cases, the trump administration announced on saturday that it would extend an existing travel ban on iran, applying to any foreign nationals who have been to the country in 14 days. the state department is advising americans not to travel to italy and south korea. >> joining us now infectious disease doctor, dr. ayme

dr. aymesh adalja, we have confirmed cases in the u.s. jumping this weekend from 65 to 88 as of last night. the last case being confirmed right here in new york city. do you believe health officials around the country right now are prepared for what is to come? >> i do think that we have been saying -- like we have been saying from the beginning, this isn't a containable virus and we expect to see cases all over the united states. there is variable degrees of preparedness. what i'm most worried about is if our hospital systems are prepared. most are mild, and end up in emergency departments and some patients will end up in the icus. we need to make sure that hospitals are ready to deal with the surge of patients and that we have our diagnostic testing up to par because we have had trouble getting tests out to people. we need to test widely to understand what's going on in our communities with this virus. >> testing widely, because this is the concern a lot of people

have right now. "the washington post" is reporting on a new study. researchers say the virus may have been spreading undetected in washington state for the past six weeks, possibly infecting scores of people. how likely is it that this virus is perhaps spreading in other states, other parts of the country undetected. >> that's completely the case. it's extremely likely that's going on. remember, this virus appeared in china at least in november. there were no restrictions going on in november. and it's a respiratory virus. it has mild illness in most patients that spreads efficiently from human to human. it likely seeded the world before we knew about it, mixed into the cold and few season, and we didn't know anything about it until we started testing. i expect in every place in the united states there's some community spread going on because that's what we know about respiratory viruss and the testing is going to underestimate the number of cases we have, and i think it's important to get a handle so people aren't panicked, so they

know it's out there and has been out there, and not a failure of a travel ban that isn't expected to make a big dent in a number of cases. >> let's go with that. this is a debate over a medieval approach to containing the disease, and a new way approach. the medieval is closing off borders, and towns, some of which china has impliemented an some experts that's what contained the disease and given the u.s. a month and a half jump on this thing. what do you think is the best approach going forward? >> right now we have to move from this idea this virus can be contained to one of mitigation, increasing diagnostic testing, vaccine development, antiviral clinical trials, public health communication, that's where the scarce public health resources need to be focused, not on travel bans, not on quarantine, moving away from containment. this is going to be like 2009 h1n1 that is going to spread and we need to get ready now while we have the opportunity. >> doctor, if you are saying the closure of the borders may not

help or containment and we need to shift away from containment is there any point in shutting down schools, in cancelling large gatherings like tech companies have cancelled some of their big conferences and all of these types of events that we're seeing around the world, even in saudi arabia, the annual pilgrimage is being reduced and prevented. >> or stopping flights into the country which the federal government has already done is there any reason to do this. >> it's not a one size fits all. it depends on what's going on in your community. if you have a big political rally, it can blunt the impact and flatten the curve of how many cases you get, and that may be necessary in certain communities but you have to look the at those one by one, and see if that's actually going to help with mass gatherings and that's a little bit different than closing borders and doing things like that. we have to think about -- in schools is a different thing.

we have to think about our kids spreading the virus. we know that's true for influenza. we don't know that's true in coronavirus. where are they going to go if they're not in school, are they going to go to the mall, how are they going to get child care for those kids, all of those cascading impacts when you close schools. it's not an easy decision to make. >> one of the biggest outlier is we don't know so much about the disease and how it's spread and who is as a ruvulnerable. >> always appreciate your insights, thank you. let's take a turn and get a quick check on the weather with bill karins. >> he was great, a lot of p perspective. a look at super tuesday for the voting states. rain this morning pouring through nashville, moving into birmingham. eventually we'll have that rain in atlanta too. for the week ahead forecast, for today, that rain will move into georgia during the day. we'll have light rain moving through ohio and pennsylvania. we'll clear it out in oklahoma

and through missouri. overnight we had a lot of heavy rain. notice california is fine. by the time we get into super tuesday, we noticed light rain in the east, for our voting states, vermont, massachusetts, maybe some late day rain showers, maybe light period of rain, the morning should be fine if you want to vote early. virginia, north carolina, looks like hit and miss showers and light rain. does not look like a huge deal. downpours in areas of alabama. west texas is going to deal with thunderstorms, including el paso. minnesota looks great too. no problems there. by the time we get to wednesday, we start to watch a weather event developing in the south. we had a lot of rain storms this winter. we're going to get another one. heavy rain on wednesday. watch mississippi, jackson had the horrific flooding two weeks ago, and look at this, guys, on friday, the potential for a storm to impact the northeast. maybe even like a nor'easter type storm. as of now, looks like the big cities will be mostly rain, interior from rain to heavy snow. we'll update that as the week

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welcome back. it looks like there might finally be some relief on wall street after a week of stock market coronavirus lows. who know what's will happen once the markets open. and joining us live from london, a terrible week. we agree on that. now more cases of coronavirus over the weekend especially one here in new york city announced last night. how is the stock market looking upon opening especially here in the united states this morning? >> well, let's start with asia. seen markets in tokyo, shanghai, end the day's trading all higher. here in europe seeing the uk and france picking up with

optimistic, but still in spain markets are significantly down and ahead of wall street, your side of the atlantic, looks like the major three markets will open higher this morning. oil markets, though, taking a bounce as well. people slightly less concerned perhaps about the loss of demand from places like china. manufacturing has been absolutely dismal and a lot of investors seemingly hoping central banks will be able to coordinate a global policy response to forestall an economic slowdown. goldman sachs in particular saying the federal government will take part in that coordinated response perhaps slashes rates half percent by march if not sooner. more aggressive and expectations than we saw a few days ago. twitter will cancel all non-critical travel and events meaning ceo jack dorsey won't be traveling to southwest southwest as the company scheduled.

waiting until things are deemed safe or a new vaccine successfully formulated. >> picking up on that point about john dorsey. i assume you've seen our last segment with the doctor. the geneva convention was popular, followed around the world. canceled due to the outbreak and now leaving altomakers looking for other ways to debut their new models. talk to us about the commercial or financial expect a of these types of cancellations. >> it's a big opportunity that's been around 11 days. a huge event every year as you say. swiss saying anything more than 1,000 people had could be canceled. bentley doing online press conferences. audi, mercedes live stream and chrysler looking to unveil an electric car and evaluating how to show the launch. >> makes it harder to see the latest ferrari model what it

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welcome back, every. joining us from washington, d.c. national political reporter mr. jonathan swan. great to have you on. what is the "one big thing" for this morning? >> so it's a complicated story, but a really, really important story. so you have the government, the trump administration, admitted to having some problems with its testing kits for coronavirus. to explain its incredible delay

to getting mass market production of these testing kits. we discovered there's more to the story the government hasn't revealed to the public. an investigator from the food and drug administration went to the atlanta lat boboratory where tests were being manufactured, and the investigator who was a top diagnostics expert was alarmed by what he saw at this laboratory. procedures, possibly contamination reported back to the government these concerns raised to the highest level of the government. they can discussed in an interagency conference call on thursday, and we reported them in axios. we don't know -- they won't tell us exactly what the specific contamination or procedural issues were that he observed, but they did tell us that they've moved all manufacturing out of the cdc laboratory in

atlanta and they've got a third party contractor now doing it, and the head of the fda, the commissioner, the doctor assured, said he has full confidence in the testing, despite these issues that have been discovered. >> so, jonathan did they move the manufacturing of these test kits from the laboratory because of these essential whistle-blower and what he had to say about the possible contamination? >> mixed messages there. we've been told by sources, yes, that absolutely played a role. their official position is that he they were going to do-ohave o manufacturing someplace else and they were manufacturing small amounts and the fda concerned in the last week they've moved them out of there and these concerns

explicitly raised with hhs, fda and other parts of the government. the other thing they've told us, they've launched what they've called an independent investigation to find out what went on in that laboratory in atlanta. >> jonathan, very important story. expect you to stay on top of it for us. pick your brain quickly about another thing unfolding. 20920 race. if we can switch to that a moment. what can you tell us about some of the president's rallies and how crucial they are for his re-election strategy? >> so the trump rallies need to be seen through the eyes of the trump campaign, which is, they are not some side show. they're a force at the center of their rallies. we spent some time, our axios hbo film crew getting inside the rallies and seeing how they use them as a data gold mine. it's quite remarkable. there's a formula developed. you've got a whole cohort of people who camp out at these

rallies before each rally overnight, and the trump campaign has built into its process ahead of the rally a whole bunch of opportunities to capture their cell phone details and monetize and get their data into the system so they can capture them. >> oh, my. whew. that sounds a little creepy. jonathan swan, thank you very much. anytime politicians is taking your data sounds a little creepy. >> yeah. personal information. >> exactly. >> poking you on facebook. >> yeah. jonathan swan a pleasure. thank you. reading axios a.m. in a bit. sign up for the newsletter at signup@axios.com. that does it for us. i'm yasmin vossoughian along side ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. i told you all if you can launch a candidacy, you launched bill clinton, barack obama to the presidency, and now you launched our campaign on the path to defeating donald trump! [ cheers and applause ] >> we have won the popular vote