health care nobody can argue about. mike: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. that wraps up this hour of "msnbc live." andrea mitchell reports starts right now. hi, andrea. >> hi, kasie. good to see you. now on andrea mitchell reports take two. joe biden gets a second act after his south carolina sweep and hopes to make it a two person race against sanders as sanders has the money and organization for super tuesday. >> you launched bill clinton and barack obama to the presidency. now, you launched our campaign on the path to defeating donald trump! >> the political establishment. you are making them -- >> stand by.

>> exit ramp, pete buttigieg and tom steyer bow out. who is next? >> i will do everything in my power to insure we have a new democratic president come january. >> spreading fears. two people in washington state have died from the coronavirus, as more cases are confirmed including a woman in new york city who had visited iran. >> she did not take any public transportation as she was a healthcare worker. she was very aware of this situation. >> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in new york. the democratic primary race has taken a whole new shape with 14 states and a third of delegates up for grabs on super tuesday

tomorrow, joe biden is hoping his south carolina weekend virktory can vault him into a two-person showdown with bernie sanders despite sanders advantage in money and organization. he was locked down in south carolina while senator sanders and the other field were drawing big crowds and hopscotching around the other super tuesday states, sanders in california and other super tuesday states. nearly 2 million californians voted early before biden's resurgence this weekend. can biden make the surge and pick up more with mayor pete's withdrawal last night. how will mike bloomberg do after skipping the first four states. tomorrow is a big test for elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar, at risk of losing their home states of massachusetts and minnesota to bernie sanders. the center of the political

debate is on the sidelines. former barack obama has talked to joe biden but is not endorsing anyone yet. covering the biden campaign in texas, steve kornacki, the 19th co-founder and ceo, emily r ranshaw and joe peters. it is joe biden's moment but he doesn't have the field office and money to make it count. how will he parlay his south carolina victory to make it something meaningful tuesday to stop bernie sanders from preempting the field? >> reporter: what he does have at this point is some momentum for the first time in a long time in this campaign. the biden campaign hopes they can velocitranslate that moment positive results. he raised $2 million and it's a

little late to put it in action for super tuesday states and will be investing it down the road. they're investing an awful lot of minimal resources they have in places complaining today in houston and dallas and california, heavily african-american districts that have more delegate power than other districts and have local endorsements. we're seeing a flood of new endorsements as well come in for the former vice president and the last day, members of congress backing him. the other thing we're looking for is what pete buttigieg ends up doing. their teams had been consulting the last few days how to consolidate support behind the vice president. we know now pete buttigieg and joe biden have spoken in the last four hours after e-mails traded yesterday. pete buttigieg obviously has a long political future ahead of

him, based on his success thus far in this campaign, unexpected success, what is in it for him to endorse joe biden? if he could help the party rally around a potential nominee, that would be a big boon. we will see whether people see this in the last few hours before people go to polls. >> and all the questions you will be raising, we look forward to hearing from you later. steve kornacki, let's talk about what's at stake. 13 states, third plus delegates at stake. the 15% threshold. the candidates that don't make 15% don't get delegates. >> that's it. let's take you why sanders goes into super tuesday with expectation. he will do well and more questions marks around biden.

you mentioned 15%. he should be getting 15% statewide and hitting that gu number in different districts. he seems to be well above 15% anywhere. talking california, utah, colorado, texas, east to massachusetts and maine, the expectation is bernie sanders is hitting 15% across the board probably easily and gives him a chance to start to gobble up delegates and get a chunk ochiaka that 1344 in california. the question mark is joe biden. the polling last week had him missing the threshold in a bunch of states. the question, can he get momentum to change it. here's a massachusetts poll that came over the weekend, a lot of delegates at stake in

massachusetts. elizabeth warren in her home state, getting a big chunk of delegates and bernie sanders, and here's the 15% line. everybody else is below it. biden sitting at 11%. he probably wouldn't get any delegates in massachusetts under this scenario. you probably have sanders getting 40 delegates out of massachusetts and biden getting zero. that's how you fall behind nationally in a state like amazed. but if biden were to clear 15%, suddenly this 40 delegate margin sanders gets ahead of him goes to 12. takes a giant chunk out of the sanders advantage just by hitting the threshold. this is the story we're watching super tuesday, whether massachusetts or texas, biden looks like he's clearing the

threshold here. the average in california hasated bien 18% right now. can biden hit 15? colorado, minnesota, massachusetts, some others. i mentioned massachusetts. biden needs to be matching sanders as much as he can just in terms of hitting the threshold. he can do that, even if he's not ahead of sanders he is positioned to make a charge in a one-on-one race when the calendar flips in biden's favor in march. >> mike bloomberg, not on the ballot up until now. is he going to make the threshold? we don't know how voters will react to the mike bloomberg from debates or advertisements. >> from biden's standpoint,

bloomberg cuts two different ways. you look in the south, look what happened in south carolina, given the support biden has from black voters, he's positioned to do really well in alabama, arkansas and tennessee. if you're biden, you don't want bloomberg hitting the threshold there because he's eating into a delegate pool biden is positioned to dominate. you don't want to see him hit 15% there but do want him to hit 15% in california. the more candidates that cross 15% in california the fewer bernie sanders leading in the state and expected to do well the fewer delegates he will get and lower his delegate haul will be. if you're biden, go easy in the south and maybe hit the threshold in california. >> bloomberg is in biden not

doing well because the whole rationale in his campaign was biden was failing when he jumped into it and he was the alternative to bernie sanders. >> without biden collapsing early on in this race you would not have mike bloomberg in the presidential contest, a fact. one of the things bloomberg has going for him is pete dropping out potentially brings voters to bloomberg. they could also go to biden. at the rally for bloomberg the last couple of weeks, a lot said they're split between those three candidates because they occupy that centrist lane. one of the things about massachusetts, a symbolic election point on super tuesday. mike bloomberg grew up in massachusetts. he has more offices there than klobuchar, biden and elizabeth warren combined. if he doesn't do well it shows

despite the money and resources he sunk in the campaign there are serious deficiencies he has voters can't get over. >> it's in joe biden's interests for elizabeth warren to stay in this race and amy klobuchar as well because those are tuesday with bernie sanders is doing well and with them in the race, will do less well. former editor and chief, biden is challenging bernie sanders. what does your reporting tell you how well joe biden might too in texas? >> absolutely. firstoff, bernie sanders does appear to have a commanding lead as recently as yesterday but you see biden seriously trying to make a run for his money here

hoping the buttigieg votes might go his way but bernie sanderslo papering the states and creeping up on joe biden. you look at bernie sanders surging in texas you are hearing a lot of establishment lawmakers looking at the potential to take back the texas house for the first time in a long time. they have a lot of consternation for bernie sanders at the top of the ticket. so many press releases coming out with new biden endorsements and making a full-court press here as well. >> mayor pete, we should talking about his withdrawal. he seemed to be pointing towards some sort of a stop sanders movement, the moment of the truth, he realized he had no path going forward and he and other candidates had no

penetration in the african-american community. here's what he had to say. >> we need leadership to heal a divided nation, not drive us farther apart. we need a broad-based agenda to truly deliver for the american people, not lost for ideology. we need an approach strong enough not only to hold the white house, hold the house, win the senate, and send mitch mcconnell into retirement. >> his message is really very well coordinated with what joe biden has been saying, the down ballot races, the efforts grr at donald trump and bringing people together and we will be hearing some sort of endorsement possibly? >> we have been hearing the two campaigns are in touch. what's interesting about what pete did and could go a long way to building up more good will for him among democrats should he be considering a future run,

the fact he dropped out while he still had support. he's received more delegates and votes than his rivals still in the race. he still has a following. people don't usually drop out with a following. they wait and the value of endorsement is less. the value could be significant for biden if that's a direction he chooses to go on. >> to be continued. steve kornacki, emily ramshaw and mike, probably heading over to talk to joe biden. coming up, outbreak, two people die in washington state contracting the coronavirus unnew york city. up next the latest on msnbc. when considering another treatment, ask about xeljanz xr, a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis or active psoriatic arthritis

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are spreading throughout the country as officials warn the number of cases here is expected to rise above 90 already diagnosed in the united states. new york city had its first confirmed case was health worker in her 30s tested positive after coming back from iran and concerns the coronavirus may have been circulating for six weeks in washington state where two people have died. what about the nursing home and people there were not adequately warned this may have been circulating among people undiagnosed for six weeks. >> reporter: andrea, it's not just the nursing home, the entire community, what everybody here is talking about in king county as well as the county up north. it comes down to this. how could a virus be circulating in this area, like the coronavirus, be in this area six weeks without anybody knowing about it. you date back to the timeline

dates back to january 15th and 18th, a man in his 30s came back from wuhan, china, had kovid-19. they started analyzing it they started examening the genetic structure. six weeks later those same markers showed up in a high school student just up north. king is seeing a possible outbreak at that nursing home. the difference between the first man who went to wuhan, china, and the second detection of kovid-19 and that high schooler. that high schooler did not go to wuhan, china and had no contact with anybody from wuhan, china and had no contact with the

first one in this united states. but how did it spread to king county because where we are right now, there is quite a bit of coronavirus going around in that nursing home and so far several people tested positive and 50 others tested positive as well. >> gadi schwartz in king county in washington state. joining us now is vanessa, a critical care, from massachusetts and boston. we have a confirmed case in new hampshire, don't know if it is man or woman. there seems to be a spread in the east coast, new york city as well. and lack of preparation and planning. the fact the white house

dissolved the pandemic council for ebola and security officials and cdc, a lot of things were cancelled by this administration. the lack of planning and preparation starting when it was first discovered in china in january. >> thank you. wonderful to join you today. health security is national security. the work we do at seed and my work at mass general and harvard is preparedness and strong health systems. we're only as strong as our weakest link. it is critically important we are thinking about our investments abroad. it is true this administration has made cuts systemically since 2016. in 2018 they took away an emergency preparedness fund and took away the cdc health

division and national security council. there's been a long record of that. i think the thing most frustrating for me as a physician and public health practitioner has been the fact we have seen this virus evolve in china and we had weeks to prepare ourselves to be able to tackle it, prevent its spread and put smart, calm and pragmatic information in the hands of americans. that's not been the approach that has been taken until extremely recently, and hopefully it will change now. >> let me ask you practical things. if people become ill or think they're ill, should they go to the er, call their doctor or stay at home to avoid contaminating other people? what are the practical steps people should take. without a vaccine, what kinds of medical care can they get? >> this is a virus, which means it's primarily supportive care. the good news is over 80% of

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former vice president joe biden's campaign is trying to capitalize on his big victory in south carolina despite his lack of money in field organizations in key super tuesday states like california. joining me now from california, former defense secretary cia former director, leon panetta, he endorsed joe biden friday. good to see you. why joe biden? he has been losing tlyouhrougho the early states, did well in south carolina. you look around california he doesn't have a field organization and office staff and money for ads.

how will he fare and can he hit that 15% threshold? >> i think joe's campaign has really been energized by the south carolina victory. the reality is that in california, there's still a lot of moving parts, although there's been a lot of political ads. bernie has had a lot of ads in california. others have as well. californians tend to be pretty much dependent who the winner will, in november. if they think about it, joe has a better chance of beating trump in november. i think that will count for something in california as well as other states. >> is he hurt by the fact nearly 2 million californians early voted before he was announced as the big winner saturday night? >> we do have voting by mail in california and a lot of people who have voted.

i voted for joe by voting by mail. i think he'll be able to do well. he will be competitive. that means if he's able to get delegates in california that will give him the ability to pick up delegates elsewhere as well. i think he will continue to have some momentum going into the convention. >> what about president obama? the former president did call him to congratulate him, is not endorsing yet, i guess doesn't want to put his thumb on the scale yet. where do you think the former president, since he is the biggest democrat in the party, certainly. >> there's no question, i was in the obama administration as cia director and secretary of defense. i saw the partnership between president obama and vice president biden. it was a very close partnership. they were not only good friends but they worked well together.

i am assuming that in the end, although president obama will try to stay out of it while the nomination battle is still going on, i don't think there's any question he will come in and strongly support joe once he's nominated. >> can bernie sanders beat donald trump? >> i think that's the concern. i have a real concern that bernie, as a socialist, he's not even a democrat, for goodness sakes, he's a socialist, whether or not in the end he can draw the kind of broad support you need in order to beat trump. i think it's a real question mark. he frankly is more of a divider. i think the party will be divided if he gets the nomination. certainly, in talking to members of the house and senate, they

are very nervous about sanders candidacy and whether or not that will under mine the ability to not only retain the house but to gain the senate. there are a lot of concerns about whether or not bernie, should he get the nomination, not only will he lose in november but he could hurt the democratic party in november as well. >> mike bloomberg got into the race because he thought joe biden was failing, frankly, in the first couple of race in iowa and new hampshire. he was coming in as a stop sanders moderate alternative. is he now in fact becoming a spoiler and hurting biden's chances of slowing down sanders' momentum. >> you know, in politics, as we've seen, it starts to shake down. it's beginning to shake down

into a two-man race between biden and sanders. you've seen what pete buttigieg did dropping out. we had steyer drop out in california. i think others are looking at that possibility as well. as they do drop out, i think there will be greater support moving towards joe. although, look, mike bloomberg has a lot of money. >> he's done a lot of ads. i still think, as we've seen in the past, it's difficult simply to buy your way to the nomination. i think in the end bloomberg will ultimately support joe biden as well. >> jim clyburn, obviously strong and critical supporter of joe biden, helping him do so well in south carolina, also had a warning that joe biden has got to shake up his team, he has to replace some of the people there. what are you insights?

>> there's no question they've had some shaky moments in the biden campaign. there's nothing like a victory to help energize both the organization as well as the candidate. i think a big win in south carolina, 48 points, a lot of support from obviously the black americans there in south carolina. that was extremely important to joe. joe is somebody who i think can appeal not only to working people, not only to the people in the suburbs, but i think he can appeal to moderate democrats and to disaffected republicans and independents. we need that kind of broad support if we're going to beat trump in november. >> leon panetta, thanks so much for joining us today in california. coming up, market mayhem, after suffering its worst week since the financial crisis.

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they're trying to stop the contagion of fear that really set the markets on this extraordinary roller coaster ride. the reality is people don't think the fed alone can actually do that much other than bring sentiment a bit. what has been sparking the markets today and leading to the share prices indicators today has been this news tomorrow the world's g-7 financial bank governors will have a virtual conference, telephone call, to talk about coordinated measures. there is a perception that is what is really needed right now. there is a question whether they can stop the economic down turn is a live one. we had the eoc in paris come out and warn their growth costs are being slashed and coordinating the down turn is difficult in

the markets. it's now or never, elizabeth warren hoping for big wins on super tuesday to stay in the race. can she hold off bernie sanders, even in her home state of massachusetts?

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and then there were six. two more democrats out of the 2020 race with the departure of tom steyer and pete buttigieg. senator warrens still trying to make inroads with african-american voters. she has done well in debates but not won a single contest yet and faces an uphill battle. joining me, congresswoman presley. let's talk about massachusetts. bernie sanders is polling well. is elizabeth warren going to win her home state? >> it's no surprise senator sanders is doing well and did well in 2016. what that means is progressive values and ideas do well in massachusetts. that comes as no surprise. this is one of the most

progressive states in this country and the pace setters when it comes to for our country. all we can be focused on right new is remind people elizabeth is tested, proven, effectively, and she is electable and has the track record to back that up. she's the only one on that stage who has unseated an incumbent republican and underestimated. when she was at the financial protection bureau she was underestimated in that. we are keeping our head down, one-on-one, heart-to-heart. we are not riding the poller coaster. in my own race they had us down by 13 points and we won by a decisive 17. as i was coming in here, a buttigieg supporter said he would now be supporting senator warren. >> if you were also coming in, we just heard veronica escobar,

freshman from el paso, very progressive democrat is throwing her support to joe biden. there are concerns someone from the moderate wing has to stand up to bernie sanders or down bat lol races are at threat. >> elizabeth is building an organization built to last. we are. we will outorganize and outwork and outlast. i believe elizabeth is the unity candidate. the fact i'm serving in the 116th congress with a record number of women serving proves women belong everywhere including the oval office. as part of the national campaign that they would select three freshmen congresswoman as chairs of this campaign, her message of

structural change is resonating and people who experience mortgages and for profitability from the cpb and has the strongest racial justice lens. she is one speaking directly to how to address not only incoming equality but the racial wealth gap. in my district, median household income drops by $50,000 in three miles, and that matters. >> congresswoman, thank you so much. good luck out there on the campaign trail today. >> thank you. zblrcht joining us for the inside scoop, ruth marcus and bill kristol. welcome both. how do you see this race how shaken up is the race, ruth, with joe biden having done so well in south carolina with the other candidates including elizabeth warren not penetrating with the african american voter who is are a key part of any

coalition for a democratic nominee? but with biden not having the field organization, not having the money for these big super tuesday states? >> so i'm really taken by the congresswoman's phrase polar coaster. i think we should use that more. i'm not sure if it's a polar coaster but we've been on a roller coaster ride of biden is dead. now he's soaring back. tomorrow will be clarifying but i think as pete buttigieg and tom steyer move from the race, obviously an enormous amount of democratic moderate anxiety about bernie sanders. and that support coalescing behind biden and the question is how things sort out on super tuesday given both sanders' presence and strength in california, the weird democratic

party rules, the role and particularly the extraordinary amount of advertising by mayor bloomberg, and it's going to be a sort of state by state slug tomorrow night, and, but i think the race is in a better, clearer place today than it was saturday morning. and that's a good thing for the democratic party. >> and bill kristol, you have written that super tuesday voters shouldn't overthink it. the choice is between biden and sanders. what about bloomberg who got into the race because he felt biden couldn't do go the distance. today he made a very strong case against bernie sanders for jewish votes talking about not only israel and the embassy and other things but just going against sanders' whole record. >> yeah. bloomberg had a strategy. it was a gamble. the gamble is biden wouldn't survive the first four states. he survived. he cut it close, but he came

back strong in south carolina. i think sanders and biden will be one two and way ahead of everyone else tomorrow, and voters already sense that. they want their vote to count. i think if you're on the left, you're probably moving from warren to sanders or not that all warren voters want sanders as a second choice, but some would. and on the moderate side people are moving to biden. i think after tomorrow it's a two-person race. my advice to moderates, my preference in the primary and republicans and independents who can vote in the primary, which they can in virginia and texas, this is not a time to -- you might like amy klobuchar. you might think bloomberg, he was a good manager, but it's going to be biden, sanders and there's a risk that not voting for biden if you're not for sanders is a wasted vote. a good showing by sanders program, but by biden. he's going to gain from where he is in the polls. >> and it's so biden's advantage

that amy klobuchar and elizabeth warren are not getting out before super tuesday. they want to win their home states and if they don't win their home states, they'll pull down some of sanders' support there. stl that's the paradox that it is to his advantage that buttigieg has left and probably somewhat to his advantage that steyer has left. that clears some percentage points, at least one of the reasons i'm stopping myself mid sentence here is that the role of early voting is really quite remarkable, because people have voted for candidates who are no longer in the race. but as a general matter, those who have left the race i think do operate to the vice president's advantage, and those who remain paradoxically are also operating to his advantage. >> ruth marcus, bill kristol, thank you. and the democratic candidates are gathered in selma, alabama sunday to commemorate the 55th anniversary later this week of bloody

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and finally, jack welch, the long-time chairman, former owner of nbc has passed away according to his wife. welch earned the nickname manager of the century for his 20 years leading ge growing the value of the company from 4 billion to $410 billion. part of the legacy was the launch of msnbc in july of 1996. he was 84 years old. that does it for andrea mitchel reports. follow us online, on facebook and on twitter. now here is chris jansing live from austin, texas. >> thanks so much, andrea.

hello, everyone. i am chris jansing reporting from a taco bar in austin, texas. this is a state at the center of the two major stories of the day, the presidential race and the expanding coronavirus threat which is where we begin. two people are now dead in a seattle suburb today from the coronavirus after state officials confirmed that it's been spreading quietly for weeks in washington state. here in texas nearly a dozen cases have been confirmed. san antonio's mayor criticized the cdc claiming they released a patient who later tested positive for coronavirus. >> as mayor of the city, i find it totally unacceptable that cdc would release a patient prior to receiving all test results and potentially expose the public to this harm. i strongly believe that all the individuals who are scheduled to be released from the 14-day quarantine today should be retested and kept in quarantine until the results confirm that they are negative for the coronavirus. >> just