basel, elise and most of you to >> you see it in the nrcc. you for watching. who's not a concerned? "mpt daily" with chuck todd starts right now. ♪ but bernie not being at the top of the ticket, but how much does that undercut what they thought was going to be their down balled? >> i think it's a harder sale. a lot of this noise about folks welcome to wednesday. it is "meet the press daily." really wanting bernie or not good evening. it is a long continuous day from wanting bernie, the bottom line super tuesday to extended is they want whatever they can wednesday but wow what a 24 throw and stick on the nominee. hours it's been in the socialism is a lot easier. democratic presidential primary. harder to do with biden. joe biden pulled off a comeback. why? because we know him. and there's a whole lot of stuff he leads the delegate race for you can say about joe biden. the first time with wins in ten of the 14 suner tuesday contests socialist is not one of them and including maine and nbc news that narrative, particularly given the fact that he pushed back on it -- called less than two hours ago and michael bloomberg announced he was dropping out to endorse >> what's your biggest fear about joe biden as the nominee? joe biden. this afternoon in front of his >> i just want him to be as staff bloomberg explained the

motivation behind that quick strong as he has been the last week and a half and not that he decision. >> i entered the race for was the first three weeks. president to defeat donald trump >> how much of that do you think -- has it been rust? and today i am leaving the race because you're right the last for the same reason. to defeat donald trump. three or four days, it's been because staying in would make it uncle joe. more difficult to achieve that >> i don't know the answer to that. goal. if joe was on his game, as he i've always believed that defeating donald trump starts has been in the last week, he's with uniting behind the candidate with the best shot to going to do just fine because he's a decent person and do it. and after yesterday's vote, it everybody in america knows is clear that candidate is my friend and a great american joe trump's not a deeszant person. biden. even the people voting for him know he's a crook. >> it's that motivation to defeat trump which seems to be they're their crook. >> thank you all. that's all for tonight. poweri powering biden's candidacy more than sanders and spoke to and if it's wednesday, we have reporters this afternoon acknowledging he missed his mark an all new "chuck toddcast." last night. >> talk about a mass movement, a it's punch drunk. broad coalition. you want to listen. >> yes. >> are you disappointed that that wasn't able to deliver more "the beat" with ari melbourne state last night? starts right now. what's your plan to -- >> look. >> thank you, chuck and thank you know, of course i'm you for joining us on "the disappointed. i would like to win every state

beat." we're live from california and by a landslide. not going to happen. maybe ask me as a follow-up covering, clearly a new phase in this race. question have we been as biden winning ten states last successful as i would hope for noilkt. bringing in young people? biden surging so powerfully he no. we're making some progress. >> and that, sanders' inability punched bloomberg out of the to drive up his support has been race and drew his endorsement today. a major impediment for him. >> just a few days ago they his share of support declined in declared the campaign dead. virtually all 18 statewide so contests compared to '16. flat in nevada. yes, some vote tallies are fluid and the field of candidates smaller in 2016 and some contests caucuses and are now primaries. but still, it demonstrates the challenges sanders is facing in delivering on the promise to expand the democratic coalition which is central to the argument he is the best candidate to defeat president trump but if you can't show the coalition in a primary that's a problem and in places where turnout went up last night it seemed to help biden. we are talking about places like virginia, texas, north carolina, alabama, massachusetts,

tennessee all states he won. all had turnout records. so as the dust settles, it is now biden's nomination to lose. he's got the delegate lead. he will have the financial and structural resources he lacked when it was a bigger field. but the party's anxieties over the abilities as a candidate do remain. so does the risk of facing a repeat of hillary clinton in 2016 attacked from folks on the trump right and the sanders left. let's get the latest headlines of the team of nbc warriors. shaquille brewster, mike memoli, ali vitali. shaq, it was a sober press conference i would say from bernie sanders. but they showed some -- they tried to get back on the offense a little bit here putting out the obama ad. tell us more about it. >> reporter: right, right. if when you heard from senator sanders, it was clear that he would be having a different tone and having a different press

conference had they been right and talking with you yesterday saying they wanted to come into super tuesday with that delegate lead an walk out with the even bigger delegate lead. that did not happen and one state in particular is north carolina. this is a state campaign aides and advisers saying that it was the performing state in 2016, they invested heavily in. visited mull pl times and that race called pretty well and a source within the campaign said there's surprise in that margin. you saw this play out in texas, in massachusetts, as well. so senator sanders as you mentioned trying to get back on the offense, making it clear he sees it as a race between himself and vice president biden and reflective in the ad released this morning an then laid into vice president biden on the typical lines of attack. nafta, iraq war vote and social security, chuck. >> sounds like a guy setting up a cam pan in the state of michigan, a big one in a week.

shaquille, thanks very much. let's go to mike memoli in biden world. what a difference 72 hours makes on that front but they do now have a new challenge on their hands which is how they handle being a front-runner this time? >> reporter: right, right. chuck, we just saw in the last ten minutes the former vice president conduct what you have to call a victory lap prison statement, not a press conference. he said he wasn't going to take questions and telegraphed the campaign to proceed from this point forward. first is to put enormous pressure on bernie sanders not to conduct the kind of negative campaign in the coming weeks. biden saying we have to keep our eye on the ball and that negative attacks between the candidates in the next few weeks only serve to help donald trump. biden advisers believe part of what we have seen in terms of voter reaction to biden is as much democrats not wanting to

avoid a repeat of 2016, a fight to hurt the nominee, but the other part here is to make the argument as you outlooned it is joe biden who's the movement, the enthusiasm candidate, not bernie sanders and that's part of what they are doing trying to welcome more candidates into the fold. you've seen it with the enthusiastic embrace of the former rivals and part of what joe biden's message is going forward and then lastly staying on message. we have seen him sticking to prompter. he was on prompter today preparing for a next debate. they know the performance will matter and he for now is succeeding in that regard. >> it's a one on one debate, too. there's no disappearing for 20 minutes for either one of those candidates. both would sometimes do. mike memoli, thank you very much. now ali vitali with the warren campaign. so, ali, it is not often you see a campaign reassess things and come back saying, oh, we are going to move forward. what is there to reassess?

what is it that they're assessing? >> reporter: yeah, chuck. i think right now we're in the tea leaf reading phase of this because the warren campaign team said this morning they're reassessing things, the campaign manager said that they're disapointed by the way they performed last night in super tuesday an didn't do what their projections and internal expectations said that they were going to be able to do in terms of amassing delegates across the map and this is her time to take the time she needs the assess what to do next and stay in this fight as her campaign manager put it but i think the thing that's striking to me is that the elizabeth warren campaign is a campaign that puts so much emphasis on grassroots. not just the way to fund the campaign but the way that they put the organization into place across the country. they had a big group of people across the country, over 1,000 staffers, they got deep into the communities trying to grassroot

organize ear the national narrative crashed into that and joe biden flourished because of it. this is the race they always wanted to run in, this three-person race. the question now is if they're going to get a chance to do that, chuck. >> well, and one other question i have is, do they see this issue of being sort of -- do they see sort of that maybe sticking around for a while and becoming the bridge builder might actually be a good thing? >> reporter: well, there could be upside to that. we all keep in touch with voters we meet out here and we heard from a voter today who voted for warren in new hampshire saying she doesn't regret that vote but now sees in this field of this potential choice of joe biden and bernie sanders is a choice between electability versus someone she agrees with on the issues. the thing about the warren campaign is they wanted to be the bridge and now elizabeth warren has to decide if she has

a path forward to do that. >> all right. ali with the warren campaign, before that, shaquille brewster and mike memoli, thank you. with me is ari robin rabin. >> close enough. >> i would prefer to get it correct. let me just start with this. the ad today with barack obama, the minute i saw it, i'm like why didn't that ad air a week ago, two weeks ago? explain the decision now to embrace barack obama. >> look. i think all our ads do two things. they show who bernie sanders is and they contrast bernie sanders with other candidates. pundits can talk about timing and all sorts of things. we made a decision to put this ad on the air today because we think it's a way we can highlight bernie sanders best in the states coming up.

michigan, missouri and washington state now. >> when you look at what you have -- what the candidate has said is going to happen, what it takes to beat trump, what your movement is doing and see the reality of what we saw last night, places where turnout was up, didn't help your coalition but biden's coalition, what is your explanation? what have you seen in the data looking that the wondering, boy, we want to get a higher turnout among young voters but not turning up? what is your diagnosis? >> look. places the media isn't looking. look at the latino vote in california for bernie sanders, young latino vote which overwhelmingly i believe 80% in california went to bernie sanders. there are -- which is by the way a critical component of any general election democratic victory is that group. we are looking at a variety of different voter groups and would

we like everybody to vote for bernie sanders in all the groups? of course. but we are building the coalition that can actually beat donald trump in november and that's what this campaign is doing. >> you heard from shaq brewster said. he said that north carolina was the southern state that you guys thought could be a break through in some form or another and disappointed in the margin there. what surprised you? >> look. i'm not disappointed in anybody who came out to vote for bernie sanders. across this country people came out to vote. we are excited by the turnout in plass like california, obviously excited by colorado and utah. i would like to point out, this is a very important point, that we still doan know the full delegate picture after last night. a ton of the california delegates are out. a ton of the utah delegates are out. a ton of the colorado delegates are out. that comprises the vast majority of delegates we don't know about and those delegates in the three states are the majority of delegates in the three states

are bernie sanders delegates so i would caution the media let's wait 24, 48, 72 hours to get a full picture. when we do, we'll see an exceedingly close delegate contest heading into the states like michigan whereby the way i think there's a lot of voters that bernie sanders particularly reaches out to. working class voters affected by trade looking at joe biden saying that guy voted for nafta, voted for permanent normalized trade relations with china. that guy, the policies he supports and bernie sanders likes joe biden, thinks joe biden is a good person. just disagrees with him on a policy position which is trade and by the way in michigan you can -- there are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of workers who have seen the job shipped overseas. we have strong support in the muslim community in michigan which i think you will see come out -- which will be in the next

few days i think and then weshld look to these next few con zests to see where the supporters congresswoman from minnesota put out a tweet to imply, boy, if the progressive movement had united around bernie sanders the way the moderates did around joe biden maybe super tuesday would have gone differently. she didn't directly talk about elizabeth warren but the implication was about that. do you think elizabeth warren hurts you on super tuesday? >> i'll let pundits make those determinations. i think elizabeth warren has every right to be in the race. bernie sanders has said this morning he thinks sheshld ta sh take her time and added a ton to the election and we think she has every right to be in the race and should make a decision in her own time. >> is it do you think a one -- you obviously believe this is a one on one race, only two people

that have a chance at getting a majority of the delegates. >> look. what bernie sanders has said is the person who has the most delegates at the end of this contest gotten the most votes should be the nominee. there are really only delegates to amass what we view as the decisive metric who should be the nominee and that's joe biden and bernie sanders. ari -- >> nailed it. >> getting better at it. all right. deputy cam pane manager for bernie sanders, thank you for sharing your views. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much, chuck. up ahead, parts of the democratic party are uniting but the deep divisions do rehman and the coming contests are going to be a fight for the heart and soul of the party. your missio: stand up to moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. and take. it. on with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling.

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joining me is john waszer marn, nera tanden, michael steele and howard dean. stubbornly neutral in this race. correct? >> i am. >> good. i want to make sure. mr. wasserman, talk about this coalition. we're shocked about joe biden's comeback except it follows the same pattern that every single super tuesday since 1984 has followed in the democratic primary. super tuesday seems to when it goes to the south create a front-runner. >> chuck, in terms of drama, this race is far from over but in terms of the math i think it's actually pretty close to over and the breadth of joe biden's victory, the statement wins in massachusetts, maine, minnesota, texas but not only that he came out with more

delegates even though bernie sanders had banked those early votes in texas and california and won't have that advantage going forward. but i think the takeaway from this, the democratic electorate nationwide has actually gotten less progressive since 2016, not more. that's because there's -- >> new democrats? >> yeah. >> who are the new democrats? >> new name for these suburban republicans that don't like trump and it's called democrats and voting in the primaries and making the pool more moderate. >> there's an addition to this. everybody thinks the young millennials are very, very liberal. not true. >> by the way, millennials, 30 er, are than 30 under. >> absolutely right. what was the makeup of the 40 seats we picked up in 2018? aoc and the -- what is it? the squad. >> the squad. >> they get all the press because they're flamboyant and smart and all that but 35 of

those veterans from central pennsylvania, oklahoma, kansas, orange county, california. our party's gotten younger, darker, more female and more centrist. >> it is something not everybody has really -- >> the real new voters were suburban voters who voted for biden. he took a majority of the new voters who hadn't voted in 2016. more moderate. fascinating about this entire primary is that we learned a lot of lessons from 2018 and then in 2019 we threw them all out. everyone went in a totally different direction but then we came back. super tuesday was the day in which you basically decided, voters decided to have a candidate who could build a broad coalition which was what it would take. he was unique, actually joe biden is unique amongst the people remaining to get republicans and reach out to independents, a lot of people in the party said, no, we shouldn't

do that. that's the argument that resonates because it's an argument that actually they voted for in 2018. >> michael steele, a bunch of democrats seemed to stare into the abyss, saw what happened in '16 and said don't do what the republicans did, don't wait too late. >> you nailed it there. the one takeaway for me last night was democrats come to the realization they didn't have to fall in love. they were okay with just holding hands. and that's really what this election -- >> nobody hates joe biden in the democratic party. may not be their first choice but that's a good shoe, good, comfortable shoe. >> they got comfortable. you know what? okay. i can hold his hand and walk with him. and i think now for joe the real effort will be to nera's point how he's able, not so much on bernie, but how he's able to bring those bernie supporters closer, not all at once but closer. >> talk to a guy that had to

work with bernie and you've had your ups an downs. >> yep. >> give joe biden some advice here. how do you land this plane with bernie? this isn't over. the math is hard. >> it is not over. >> the math is hard but it isn't over. it is just daunting. >> that's right. it doesn't have a lot to do bernie but the momentum change. we have seen four momentum changes. >> don't assume we don't see another one. >> next week. >> doan forget we have a one on one debate before then. >> that's right. won't be a two-person debate. >> i don't know if elizabeth stays in. how often do you see candidates take a day off and say i'll stay going? >> you know? who knows? all i know is what we see in the memos of the campaign guys. although that's not bonanza that bern ne ice peop bernie's people are saying. the young women switching the vote from warren to biden.

not because -- >> bitterness of bernie. >> there's some of that but these are young people who are not so bitter. what they want is peace. they're tired of the historonics. can unite the country. 50% of biden voters wanted somebody to -- goes to your point right there. the unity thing. >> especially young people. >> huge with a big group of voters. >> the ability to unite the party and unite the country is a central issue and this is one of the issues where timing is going to matter a lot. more than in 2016, more than 2012, or 2008, there is a demand for us for the democratic party to get going on the general election. and i think that timing issue, i totally hear you on momentum but on the other side of this people have -- are going to start feeling like this is a good time

to get over. what vice president biden said today which is i think there will be penalties for being super negative. a lot of hillary voters of 2016 that felt the negativity at the end wounded hillary and her harshly. >> does steve bullock decide to run for the united states senate today if bernie sanders has the delegate lead? >> that's what we're hearing. >> my point is, here it's suddenly, biden at the top of the ticket? maybe i'll try a senate rate in montana. >> to the earlier point of learning lessons of 2018, i wonder if joe biden learns from 2016 as nominee because what i hear from him is trump's temperament. he sets a terrible example for kids. that didn't work in 2016 for hillary clinton. >> i will -- i seen this comment. it is a very different -- in 2016, many people didn't think, many democrats didn't think trump could win. everyone thinks he could easily

win. it is a very different environment and biden is -- pains me to say it, a different candidate. >> bernie and biden do get along. they are friendlier i think than bernie and senator clinton were for whatever reason. how would you advise biden to sort of land the plane with bernie? >> treat him with respect. that's the basically core issue. treat bernie with respect. he is going to say things to make you mad. >> don't -- don't fire with fire? would you hold back? would you pull back? that's what clinton did. >> you would fight back? >> i wouldn't use the blowtorch but i'd make it clear i wasn't a pushover. >> democrats are also looking at who can take on trump. >> yeah. that's the key thing. this is really kind of a set-up for the tango to come between september and november. >> yeah. >> if you can't dance now, it is harder to do that. >> joe biden wasn't a great candidate. a good candidate for three days.

>> well, you know, the last week gone pretty better. it's been better. >> chuck, that can stiffen the bone. >> near-death experiences matter in politics. up ahead, what is bernie sanders' path 0 victory? looking at the calendar and the map things get complicated. but first, michael bloomberg spent at least $500 million on the 100-day campaign. we did some number crunching because everybody is. $57.33 per second of the campaign. yes, per sec. $20.8 million for the delegates won so far. and approximately $1.52 for each and every 1 of the 372 million americans. also just shy of $9,000 for every person in american samoa where he won four delegates last night. this is the lowball figure. the next report will tell us

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welcome back. right now vice president pence speaking at the white house for the daily briefing on the coronavirus response. let's dip in. >> the common sense practices that i just described are all available at cdc.gov. today we had a series of meetings here at the white house and on capitol hill. we met with executives of the

airline industry, the executives of commercial avs and nursing homes and met with the republican and democrat caucuses in the house of representatives and we were pleased to learn that just shortly ago the house of representatives passed a federal funding bill by virtually unanimous margin and now moves to the senate and implements the president's vision that not only do the federal agencies have the resources that they need and the state and local partners have their support and my conversations with governors through this afternoon i know they're grateful for the bipartisan spirit that's characterized this funding bill and will continue to work through that process. as president trump said, we're all in this together. and he deployed a whole of government approach but thanks to the president's leadership it's developed into a whole of

america approach and the meetings today with industry leaders is a reflection of that. as dr. birx will indicate in just a few moments with some of the data we are evaluating from around the world it does appear that the elderly are the most vulnerable. and especially those with serious health issues. at the president's direction, as a result we'll describe that the centers for medicaid and medicare services issued new guidelines or nursing homes nationwide. we have raised the bar regarding infectious disease control at our nursing homes and in addition administrator will explain how to focus all of our ensp inspection resources for the foreseeable future with compliance of infection control standards. generally we monitor our nursing

homes for abuse and neglect but at the president's direction we are going focus exclusively on ensuring that those in nursing homes, people operating the nursing homes like many that we met with today are complying with the new standards to keep our elderly safe. president also met today with airline executives and i'll reiterate as the president said our profound gratitude to our partners in the airline industry. they have worked with us in -- as we say flowing americans through particular airports, the screening, we're working very closely with airlines on contact information. if a person is tested as positive for the coronavirus we're working with the airlines to get all the information, not just about that person, but about who they sat next to and who else was on the flight and the president and i are very grateful. as we announced yesterday, i'm

pleased to report that as of yesterday morning in addition to the travel ban from china, we've suspended all travel coming in from china. we have suspended all travel coming in from iran and even foreign nationals who visit either within of the countries are barred from coming into this country for 14 days. but we also established a travel advisory for italy, portions of italy and portions of south korea over the weekend. but even as importantly as of yesterday morning we fully implemented a screening process all direct flights from all airports in south korea and italy are now being subject to multiple screens before passengers board to come to the united states of america. state department worked very vigorously to bring that about and we're grateful for the cooperation, the governments of italy, governments of south

korea as well as our airline partners in making that a reality. finally, with regard to testing, we had a meeting today that gave us great hope for great progress in the near future on expanding testing across the country. we have a ways to go yet and i'm pleased to report as we've been able to convey to state governments, governors around the country, is that thanks to the good work of the fda and steve hahn here with us today all state laboratories, all university laboratories at the state level can conduct coronavirus tests. without any additional assets or resources from the federal government. they have the fda approved test. they can conduct the test all across the country in all the states. beyond that, as we announced, through the efforts of hhs, 2,500 kits of tests are going

out this week. of 2,500 kits including tests has gone out this week, roughly 1.5 million tests that will be available this week. we'll continue to build on that number but perhaps most significantly thanks to dr. birx's efforts and leadership we brought today at the white house the leaders of all of the largest commercial laboratories in this country. companies of -- like qwest with prolo gistics and testing capabilities and pleased to report today they have created a consortium to share information and to share resources and literally have told us that as they go through what is called the validation process on testing that by next week individual companies will be able to do as they said to me thousands of tests of coronavirus if they are needed and required. and many, many multiples more of

that in the not distant future. our objectives here as dr. birx raised with the task force is we have got hospitals in affected areas and those requesting kits. we have universities an state lab that is can now perform the test on a requested basis but our objective ultimately and as quickly as possible is tests made through the commercial laboratories and commercial providers that your local doctor, your cvs, your med check is able to have a coronavirus test. and that isn't there yet. we're working to make that a reality but again it is one more example, not just a whole of government approach but a whole of america approach and whether it be the nursing home industry, the airline industry, whether it be our commercial laboratories, i can speak on behalf of president trump and the entire task force when i say we are

profoundly grateful for the spirit that's being reflected by companies all an i crocross the states of america and grateful for the state level and the american people should be confident that that spirit of partnership is going to continue to drive this at every level as we work our way through. dealing with the coronavirus in the united states. with that, i'm going to recognize dr. deborah birx for her comments. >> thank you, mr. vice president. good evening. over the last 12 hours, we have been able to receive information -- >> we're going to continue to keep our eyes on this briefing at the white house and bring you any news from it but turning now to what's become the epicenter of the coronavirus here in the united states and king county in washington state, reported 31 cases of coronavirus including 9 deaths and officials ramp up efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and officials asking adults over 60 and frpregnant

women to stay at home and asking the public to avoid large gatherings and encouraging employees to work from home. this is seattle. king county executive dow constantine is here with me now. sir, thank you for joining us. this is pretty -- you're taking a next level step here. when you say you would like to really get rid of small gatherings, does this mean a school activity, high school games, things like that? are you discouraging that all around the county? >> we are advising people and thanks for having me. we are advising people that the smartest thing to do, the healthiest thing to do is avoid face to face contact that can lead to infection. this is especially important as you mentioned for seniors and for people who compromised immune systems. this virus seems to really be very difficult in particular for them.

>> do you have any new information that indicates how long this virus has been in your community? >> we don't. there's speculation that's circulating for several weeks and only came to know about it because it finally found this nursing home with a concentration of people most vulnerable and something the cdc on the ground housed in the county headquarters checking into and getting lessons to apply in other parts of the country. >> i was just gong to ask that. is there anything already you learned from what happened at this tragedy that the point? every day, i mean, i think six deaths centered around the nursing home. look. it has people -- a lot of people around the country nervous about any -- a lot of us have loved ones in senior facilities, things like that and all nervous about this. >> well, anywhere where people congregate this virus takes the opportunity to infect folks. it is a nursing home that has so

many vulnerable people in it and a terrible tragedy. personal tragedies and folks are having a difficult time because their loved ones are quarantined inside and not able to commune tate with them. what we are doing here is a really two fold effort. one, to slow the spread of this disease to allow medical authorities to catch up with treatments and vaccines and the other is to protect the particularly vulnerable, the elderly, those with compromised immune systems so they don't suffer serious consequences. >> what point would you ask for schools to be closed? >> public health leaders, department has the statutory authority to close schools but they have been working with local school districts and the state public instruction superintendent to identify when it would be that we would need to do that. they work with individual schools and if there's a student or teacher infected they support the schools to be closed and

cleaned before they're reopened. were not mandating the schools close and not sure that's a strong, effective measure in slowing the virus. >> one of the aggressive actions you are considering is buying a motel. >> yes. >> you have some vulnerable population that is struggle to find shelter at night on a nightly basis. how much is that for that community and how much for an overwhelmed hospital community? >> yeah. you're right. it is for both. we are locating several mod lar communities around seattle and purchasing a motel and that is for people who are homeless, who don't have a place to go and be in isolation or recover and also for people who can't return home because they don't want to infect the families, for example. or maybe students who are in a dormitory setting and can't isolate there. it is pormt to have the capacity so people aren't checked into the hospital taking up space needed for folks this need

medical treatment. >> and let me -- final question is, the federal government resources, what have you gotten? what do you still need? >> well, we are very grateful for the action taken by congress today and grateful for our congressional delegation led by senator patty murray. they're delivering the resources that we are going to need locally to supple. the state and local resources to take this thing on. we do have the expertise in this community, the strong institutions in health care to do a good job with the bad situation but we need our federal government as a epicent business, king county is, around the world, particularly the tech community. have you thought about more extreme mitigation efforts coming to air travel? >> we have thought about that with regard to all workplaces. i have spoken with alaska airlines, our local airline this

afternoon, with microsoft and we are all getting aligned around what steps it is going the take to keep the workforce healthy and the community healthy. we have to slow the spread of the virus the protect those most at risk and to keep our economy going. people have to be able to work. it's very important that we not balance but that we find a way to reconcile the critical needs. >> so it sounds like what you're saying is everything's on the table if you think it will stop or slow the spread of this virus. >> everything's on the table and we want to act strongly now to slow it down and give the medical community a chance to catch up. >> okay. all right. dow constantine, the keing couny executive, thank you. i appreciate it. good luck. >> thank you for having me. keeping eyes on the briefing at the white house and bring you headlines out of it right away. for now we'll be right back. tte, creamy and roasted.

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if i or anybody else goes in to the democratic convention with a substantial plurality i believe that individual, me or anybody else, should be the candidate of the democratic party. >> welcome back. that was bernie sanders all of nine days ago calling for the kards with the most delegates to be the nominee even if it's less than a majority. in that moment, he was leading the delegate race after the dominant win in nevada. here's what he had to say today after joe biden's big night for delegates on super tuesday. >> if candidate x, i don't know who that candidate x might be, i hope it's me, could be somebody else, goes in to the convention in milwaukee with the most votes, and then the party leadership and the insiders and the corporate world say, yes, the people voted for you, you

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welcome back. still with us, steele and dean. you told us something new about this new ad. i'm going to play this ad from bernie sanders that appears to show him being embraced or his working relationship with barack obama. let me play the ad. >> bernie is somebody who has the virtue of saying exactly what he believes, great authenticity, great passion and is fearless. bernie served on the veteran's committee and got bills done. i think people are ready for a call to action. they want honest leadership who cares about them. they want somebody who's going to fight for them and they will find it in bernie. i feel the burn. >> so, the portoirigo is the dan 2016 that president obama met

with bernie sanders and asked him to step down. yes, that's the walk. i mean, people should double check but i'm pretty sure that's the portigo walk and the day barack obama endorsed hillary. so, it's fascinating to be using that today. >> essentially pulling a bloomberg and bloomberg did succeed in raising his share of african-american supporters by running ads that wrapped himself in obama's mantle and for a time it worked, until the debate. >> bloomberg and bernie are not the same in that respect. >> in a lot of respects. it just wouldn't have worked. he could have run that ad ten times over and it would not have resonated to the same degree. >> and in south carolina vice president biden made the point tin debate that bernie sanders wanted a primary of barack

obama, which would have made that ad seem odd. >> i want to go to this conventional back and forth. you shut down the michigan and florida delegations when they wanted to cheat on the calendar. >> they did cheat on the calendar. >> they did cheat on the calendar. votes, delegates ppt where do you think he's headed there? >> the super delegates should not get involved in picking the nominee. it's allowed but it's complicated. what he doesn't say is you cannot disenfranchise the delegate votes brought by people other than joe biden and bernie sanders. those guys have a right to choose who they're going to vote for. >> the pete buttigieg or elizabeth warren delegates. >> and they're going to do that

and they have a right to vote for anybody they want. >> and they don't have to stick -- >> so, on the first ballot, if they're going to do it, it would be good to do it on the first ballot. sglilts >> it's a two-person race. the brokered convention story is over, right? >> almost. the fact -- >> the dream is dead to you political junkies out there. >> we're not going to have a 1924, 122-ballot convention. the fact bloomberg and warren are dropping, shows you they're not going to reach the number of delegates that would raise the chances of a contested convention. >> by the way, that's a good sign both warren and bloomberg are going to hit threshold. >> we're looking at an eig

eight/nine-point margin at the could narrow as we count later ballots that could arrive. and we're likely to see biden pick opfew delegates. everywhere we allocate them by congressional district and there are some where it's a close call. >> your advice to biden on avoiding -- maybe you don't think clinton made mistakes. but somed a vice for team biden here you think they can take and not make similar mistakes. >> i think the central difference between 2016 and 2020 is how fearful democrats are about trump and in this general election. there wasn't as much fear in 2016. i actually think the issue for the vice president is to argue the case that we have to be united against donald trump. and i think that there will be other pressure from other people. the vice president doesn't have

to do anything. he has to think through how he does better with particular coalitions, latinos and younger people. and he has to think how he deploys people to do that. but the most important thing i think is making people recognize trump is campaigning now for the general election and democrats are already behind.