that wraps it up for this hour. i will be back at 6:00 p.m. earp eastern. now i turn it over to reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation." good evening, and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, three old white men and no ladies. i want to start off tonight's show with a eulogy for the most daggerous hopeful democratic nominations ever fielded. it deserves some mentioning because with all of that in the rearview, we now have two older white men competing to take on a

third in president trump. after he returns from south carolina and then super tuesday left only joe biden and bernie sanders for the fighting chance in the delegate race. and with another round of geographically and demographically diverse contests looming this tuesday. sanders is focusing on the working class midwest, some suggesting that he's ceding the black vote in the south to biden, who is in missouri today, mississippi tomorrow, one week after south carolina's black voters made him the presumed democratic front-runner. again, the delegate count is this man and makes it a two-man race, 621 for biden, 553 for sanders. i will talk to surrogates from both camps in a bit. of course, their shared political nemesis, president trump, is weighing in on the

sharpened primary picture and shutting his ears to inconvenient truths about the coronavirus threat. >> it's an unforeseen problem. problem that came out of nowhere. we're taking care of it. i don't think people should panic. you have to be calm. it will go away. >> it will go away, of course. science hasn't confirmed that but it hasn't stopped the president from making misleading claims for weeks, even as cases have exploded here and abroad. at least 403 known cases in the united states, 19 known u.s. deaths, but if that doesn't put you at ease, the president inexplicably switched out his chief of staff friday and the third time in the last four years, replacing acting chief

mick mulvaney with north carolina republican congressman mark meadows. consistent even in a crisis, the president informed us by twitter. we'll talk about the trump response later in the show. but first 2020 vision. now in full focus, let's hear from both camps, starting with the lieutenant governor of michigan, garland gilchrist, who has endorsed joe biden. lieutenant governor, let me ask you why have you endorsed joe biden and do you predict he will win michigan, despite the fact bernie sanders won it last time in 2016 against hillary clinton? >> reverend sharpton, first of all, thank you for having me on the program. it's good to be with you. i want to start out by saying in 2016, i voted for bernie sanders in the michigan primary, which he won by a narrow margin. joe biden was not on the ballot that year.

we did not have a candidate like him who has shown up to the communities in michigan that i care about time and time again, delivering to rescue the auto industry, delivering to expanding access to health care, delivering on public transit and internet access. the issues people care in in detroit where i live and all across the state of michigan. now that we have that choice, someone who has proven they're going to be here for our communities, that's going to listen, that's going to reach out to everybody, that's why i'm endorsing joe biden for president. >> you also have flint, michigan, and the problem there in terms of the tantstainted wa. you had signs of that in detroit. you're the lieutenant governor. that happened when we had obama/biden in office. will the fact that was so complicated and not resolved, and even now we still have lingering problems there, will that hurt your candidate? >> the flint water crisis is the result of the republican leadership in the state of michigan failing the people of

that community and not being truthful with them about the solution. governor gretchen and i working hand in hand with the people of flint every single day so they can one, restore the relationship and trust with the government, but, two, we can deliver on healthy water. when i was elected in 2018, we won this state that donald trump by 10,000 votes. we won it by 10 points and what that means is 400,000 votes. that happened because we showed up in every community in michigan. my first day on the campaign trail, i was in flynn the. we went to all 83 counties. when you show up for people, you deliver for them and that's how you win elections. joe biden showed up before, during and beyond election season to be there for the people of michigan time and time again. we know he has our back, and we will have is. >> a precedent that is, i heard the complaints all over michigan, as you know my civil rights work has a strong chapter there, i heard a lot of

complaints that hillary clinton didn't campaign enough in detroit and her campaign misled her. are you making a complicit statement about the clinton campaign and are you saying than joe biden will do better that mrs. clinton was accused or or at least her campaign was? >> i'm saying you definitely have to show up to earn people's vote and earn people's trust. you have to ask people to note for you and tell them why. as i said, i was a sanders voting in 2016. they didn't reach out what it would talk to me about what it would be to win michigan in 2020, and i think that's unfortunate. joe biden reached out to work with myself and governor whitmer about how do we gain people's trust? that's what this is about. what kind of leader will build coalitions that will win, grounded in the street and primary black vote like it matters in michigan maybe in any other state, perhaps south carolina. but the importance of that

community. that led to me becoming the first black lieutenant governor in the history of the state of michigan. that's the coalition it will take to deliver in michigan and joe biden's going to build it. >> we're ought of time but i need to ask you this, what is the central reason you, a supporter of bernie sanders in '16, has now left his camp and got to biden in '20? what turned you into that, governor gilchrist? >> i went to a person that was excited about possibility to building on success. joe biden built success in our communities and we want to build on that progress going forward. and i believe that's the right way to do it. >> thank you for being with us, lieutenant governor garland gilchrist, thank you. we go from michigan to mississippi, where 30 delegates are in play for next week and where i say joe biden is likely to hold his firewall. and i say likely because the

poll last year was top of a much more crowded primary field, eating them all soundly at 47%. if his return to south carolina and alabama are any indication, biden shi biden should do well in mississippi, the state with the largest population in the nation. bernie sanders canceled the rally friday night in mississippi to campaign in michigan instead but he did pick up a recent endorsement from the mayor of the largest majority democratic city, who joins me now. mayor of jackson mississippi, chuk la moom ba is endorsing senator sanders. mayor, i understand you took this to your constituents and you, in many okays, endorsed what you found to be the will of your constituents. is that so? and what was the process that you used to oppose your

constituents? >> first of all, thank you for having me reverend sharpton. i always enjoy speaking with you. i believe my leadership should reflect the values, the ideas and concerns of my people. and i think that in that vain that it is important that we take issues of who we enforce, who best speaks to our concerns to the people. so we executed this by having a people's caucus. at that caucus the citizens had the opportunity to go table by table from the various camps which were represented, challenged them on the issue here in more detail what they're planned for the different areas of concern were. and out of that process, overwhelmingly the people that attended that caucus selected bernie sanders as the candidate that they wanted to move forward with. >> you had a caucus. that's an innovative and probably admirable way to deal with that.

but right after that endorsement, right after that caucus, senator sanders canceled coming to jackson, mississippi, for a planned announced rally and gone instead to michigan. has he personally called you to tell you why he chose to do that when vice president biden will be there tomorrow? >> yes. well, first and aforemost, i wa with senator sanders yesterday and we had spoken on a number of occasions. having run a campaign locally, i know how difficult it is for me to travel all across the city to get the message out so i can't imagine the nands of a national campaign. but more important than the fact he was unable to come on this occasion, he's no stranger to jackson. senator sanders stood with nissan workers in canton, mississippi, a mere two years ago when they were trying to unionize, fighting oppressive conditions which saw an employee die on the line, and they continue to have production

going. he was here shortly after that hosting a rally with me, a town hall speaking on issues of economic justice. so this is two times that he's come here. so while he surely wanted to come a third time, and while we are disappointed he was unable to come most recently, he's certainly been no stranger and not just in campaign season, in election time. we see him as an ally and consistent. >> now, i raised at the top of the show we had the most diverse field that we've seen in the democratic process for the democratic primaries. yet we're down to two older white men. as a mayor, not as a sanders supporter, as a mayor and on the vanguard of the new kind of elected leadership in this country, particularly in plaque america, do you think it is important that the presidential nominee, whether it be your

candidate, senator sanders, or former vice president biden, choose a female or a person of color to be part of their ticket as vice president? >> i think that that is certainly -- that's something that should be highly considered. i think the diversity of opinion, diversity of background should be considered as someone selected their vp. i come from a history of struggle out here in mississippi where at one time our mission was to get leadership that looked like us. but i think even more importantly than that is to have leadership that thinks like this, that talks about the issues which are at the front and center to people suffering each day, people who are dealing with economic injustice, disparities, criminal justice system in need of reform, failing health care, and all of the circumstances that people are suffering from across this nation. >> at the end of the day, the democrats' charge is to defeat an incumbent republican

president, who is popular in your state. do you feel that if senator sanders is not successful, that his supporters will then support biden and vice versa, if biden is not successful, that his supporters will support sanders? if so, how does the leadership in both campaigns try to heal the wounds because there's been a lot of acrimony back and forth and it may intensify. at the end of the day, can both sides that now we're down to a two-man race, can they put it together and be focused for november, or is this going to be be a wrestle to the end and could have dire consequences for the determined goal of the democratic party. >> well, i think that you hit the nail on the end. in november we have a sizable task in front of us, regardless of who the nominee is. but i'm of the opinion bernie sanders presents the best opportunity.

i think what we see in donald trump is an individual who does not use the normal rhetoric that we've seen from republican party over history, and so he's engaged a constituency that was not engaged and they feed off of the negativity he spews each and every day. i think on the opposite end we need a candidate, bernie sanders, who speaks to policies that people who have been left on the periphery of this electoral process feel engaged, feel el powered and feel excited about going to the polls. i feel if he is the nominee, if those individuals who are the democratic establishment, who are used to voting democrat, will come just out of pure disdain for trump alone will drive them to the polls. but we have to go further than that. to steal words from professor jen ba minute, we can't only

dismantle the word we do not want to be in, we have to be active participants in building the world we do want to live in. and a lot of that is due to the fact a lot of disenand chatted voters you talked about didn't show up. the turnout was not there. you're young. you're the establishment in jackson, mississippi. i'm certainly here and a part of the community building that takes place in jackson. >> and you're the mayor. you're the chief executive of the city. >> absolutely, absolutely. but i take a unique position to listen to the people, not only in the process of having a people's caucus, we've executed things like participatory budgeting because we feel that a budget is a moral document that speaks to the values of our community and i think we should utilize that same process in the selection of our leadership and the policies that move this country forward in cities like jackson, mississippi, forward. >> all right, mayor of jackson, mississippi, thank you for being with me.

coming up, 18 different states have voted so far in this democratic primary. might we know who the nominee is after six more vote on tuesday? we'll dig into that next. >> first, my colleague richard lewis will update us on the coronavirus. richard? >> hey, rev. here's the latest this hour. first off there's a state of emergency in effect for new york that was first announced by governor andrew cuomo last night. the state has seen nearly 30 new cases of coronavirus in just the past 24 hours alone. meanwhile, florida health officials announced two people died from the disease. they are the state's first deaths related to the coronavirus. both people are reportedly senior citizens who had pre-existing conditions. then we take you to california. vice president mike pence confirming 21 people aboard a cruise ship is docked off its coast have now tested positive for the virus. the "grand princess" cruise liner is carrying more than 3,500 people and stuck offshore

in quarantine since wednesday. a number of public events have been canceled due to fears of the virus. among those culture south by southwest in texas. there are 400 confirmed cases of the virus and so far 19 died. looking globally, 99,000 people have been sickened by the disease since january and more than 3,400 died as of this day. more "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton right after the break. er the break. and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair.com

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welcome back. the shape of the race has changed so dramatically in the last few days, it's hard to believe super tuesday was just four days ago. joe biden leads bernie sanders in the number of delegates won, biden 624 and sanders 556. and we're gearing up for another slate of contests this coming tuesday with primaries in idaho,

michigan, mississippi, missouri and washington state. plus a caucus in north dakota. joining me now, david brock, democratic strategist and susan del percio, a republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. david, let me start with you, does bernie sanders have to win michigan to bring back some kind of moment and some kind of feeling that he is still in this race with a serious chance of turning around the lead of vice president -- former vice president biden, even with still not knowing the final count in california? >> right, yes, i think he does. particularly because senator sanders won last time and i think he needs to win it by a convincing margin. if you look at the other states in play on the 10th, it's going to be very hard if sanders doesn't have a substantial up in

michigan to lead biden. you think about the 13th be is so gaunting for sanders because that may be the day we know essentially who the nominee is. and i think basically what's happened here is the democratic electorate ended up being more pragmatic than risk-adverse than many people had thought. people -- i think sanders people looked a little too soon, particularly in nevada, and there was an inverse impact of that. people turned out for biden and biden put the coalition together rather than sanders. >> susan, the fact we started with such a diverse field, and we're down to two older white males against an older white male, either one of them against an older white male in the incumbent president donald trump, do you feel that whoever is the nominee must put on the ticket as their vice presidential candidate a woman or a black or latino?

>> oh, absolutely. i would think whoever it is would look for a person of color and woman. however, a woman will be necessary at this point. i think especially after how what happened with elizabeth warren and a few other women who were running, there was this question of electability, how women candidates are treated. and more than half of the people who vote in this country are women. it would just make a lot of sense. >> now, david, look at some numbers. on super tuesday, young, black voters supported bernie sanders slightly more than joe biden, but black voters over the age of 45 supported biden more than 4-1 against sanders. what does that mean for the race going forward? because the gap between sanders and vice president biden was a lot smaller than this huge gap with older voters. what does that say, if anything,

to you? >> i think what it says is the promise sanders was making that there would be this electorate that would be a new electorate, that there would be increased youth turnout, and a different composition of the electorate to rise up for this revolution. we haven't seen it anywhere. so while he's winning the youth vote, we cannot seen an increase in the youth vote. whereas biden, as i said, really put together something close to the obama coalition, a much more diverse coalition. so i think sanders has basically failed to deliver. >> susan, also among black voters president trump's job approval is just at 14% and within black women he's polling in the margin of arrow of zero. yet he thinks he can draw black voters. is that even possible? >> the president said a lot of things that aren't true.

what are we up to, 15,000 lies? he throws things out there that just sound good. it's not true. it's not likely. and to go back to david's point sanders not only putting together the coalition he said, biden has been able to increase turnout not much among the obama coalition but the suburbs. that's in 2018 led to the blue wave and that's what will lead to a democrat beating donald trump. >> david, do you feel you have nearly two-thirds of the black vote in southern states on tuesday, while bernie sanders canceled his mississippi trip. is he writing off the democratic base? >> well, i thinks this a serious question. the democratic base, african-american voters and parts of the electorate that are not the democratic base as susan just said, these suburban white women that moved over to biden, that is really the winning coalition for november. it looks like sanders from giving up essentially in

mississippi and putting all of his cards in michigan, it's a sense of admission that he hasn't built that broad coalition and that he hasn't really connected with african-american voters in the way biden has. >> now, susan, the endorsement of former candidates, the endorsement of pete buttigieg, the endorsement of amy klobuchar, because elizabeth warren did not endorse. amy klobuchar, former mayor pete, the former congressman beta o'rourke. these endorsements for bide, all of them. will it have impact? will it not? does it matter there are supporters in these states that come up on tuesday, will these states be influenced by this in terms of those that may have voted for one of them? >> i think congressman's jim clyburn's endorsement in south

carolina that made national, if you will, wasn't just helping him in south carolina. probably the most important endorsement he's received to date. the i think there could be a little bit importance of having the former candidates he doers biden but it's more or less to show the momentum. it was a good story than actually turning votes. the exception maybe is amy klobuchar. she has a solidation that complements joe biden but she can get in there in the midwest and help biden turn things around there. >> i will go back and ask you this, david. you have seen people questioned throughout the campaign since joe biden entered. why hasn't barack obama endorsed him since he was his vice president? now we see a commercial this week about bernie sanders using barack obama and people say it's out of context. and it was a fact that bernie sanders had in fact suggested

that someone give president obama a primary in 2012. how does the obama effect deal with this campaign, the fact he's not he doersed and the fact there's some clapback on bernie sanders? >> he has not endorsed anyone because he knows he will play a critical role in this primary, uniting enkl together but i think everyone can intuttively know the things obama and biden accomplished together during those eight years, and also a plus with african-american voters since p biden was loyally attentive to president obama. now and sanders has taken a 180 on obama this last week and tried to portray himself much

closer to president obama than he was. he really want. he was critical of obama as not being aggressive enough, not being progressive enough. pt did have that primary challenge in 2012. so i don't think this new tack will be very convincing for voters on sanders side. >> let me ask you,i susan, i'm out of time, that president trump reports early he most definitely did not want to run against joe biden. now joe biden at this moment is ahead in delegates. is the whole assault on joe biden and hunter biden going to be something we will hear escalated over the next few days. >> oh, days, weeks and months. with he snow senator johnson is looking into opening up an investigation into hunter biden. but this could have a fresh impact on donald trump.

it motivates his base. don't forget the moderate voters he needs, suburbs, they overturned donald trump there. the numbers, polling there, they shored that support up. i don't think it's a smart move but donald trump can't help himself. >> all right, susan del percio and david brock, thank you both. in a quick programming note, make sure you tune in on for msnbc's special primary coverage. voters in six states head to the polls, idaho, michigan, mississippi,ing missouri, north dakota and washington. we'll have a full breakdown of the results and extensive analysis. it all gets under way this tuesday at 6:00 p.m. eastern only on msnbc. coming up, the late-night hosts are taking aimed at the president's botched response to the coronavirus. >> last night donald trump went on fox news to lie about

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for this week's memo to trump, i want to talk about coronavirus, because, mr. president, your scientific illiteracy and pathological lying are just no longer just a stain on you and your office, they're downright deadly. first, nobody elected you because of your expertise in the field of biochemistry.

but this is really egregious. >> the same vaccine could not work, you don't think a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that would have much of an impact on coronavirus? >> no. >> probably not. >> despite being surrounded by experts on this crisis, for weeks you're still asking questions so basic ig ththat a schooler could answer them probably with laughter because your premise was so ridiculous and your unwillingness to sit up and pay attention is putting american lives at risk every day. like when you made this offhanded and irresponsible comment on fox news this week. >> we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work. some of them go to work, but they get better.

>> i can hardly imagine anything more harmful than you going on national television and telling americans that they will just get better if they go to work with coronavirus. while your own cdc is basically pleading with people who exhibit symptoms to stay at home, to slow the spread of the disease. even as you sacrifice the well being of americans for your own ego. >> because i like the numbers being where they are, i don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault. >> you're so obsessed with keeping the numbers artificially low, you won't allow sick americans to return home for medical care, because you're afraid it might make you look bad. but i think you know already looking bad is what you are. so you frantically are looking for someone to blame, including

the media and this network in particular for just informing the public about your inadequate response. and, of course, you're bliming your most predictable person, blame president obama. >> the obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we're doing and we undid that decision a few days ago. >> with all due respect, mr. president, what you really undone was all of the effective work that the obama administration did in preparing for a crisis just like this one. two years ago you fired the entire pandemic response chain of command. and in your most recent budget proposal to congress, you requested a 16% funding cut to the centers for disease control, the agency on the front line of the coronavirus fight.

meanwhile, why the rest of the world is able to screen tens of thousands of patients with an accurate test developed in germany and distributed by the world health organization, your administration stubbornly stuck with its own tests, even when you knew it was flawed. and you just keep making wild speculations without a shred of evidence to back them up. >> the virus, they're working hard. le looks like by april, you know, in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. le i hope that's true. >> of course, the scientists who actually study the disease beg to differ, saying that is too soon to know how the coronavirus will react to warmer weather. le we have already established you can't be bothered to listen to scientists and experts, mr. president. maybe we are all better off by doing the exact opposite of what you say.

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has been untouched by the slavery that followed. america was not yet america, but this was the moment it began. [sfx: typing] welcome back. we're focusing on mississippi, where the justice department is now investigating the state's

prisons after at least 24 inmates have died in custody since december. 29, two this week alone, and coming just days after entertainers jay-z and yo gotti filed a second lawsuit against the state on behalf of 150 prisoners, charging their conditions in the state penitentiary in parchment, mississippi, are so unsafe, that inmates are, quote, in constant peril. joining me now live is hip-hop artist and activist yo gotti and attorney jordan seed. let me ask you, yo gotti, this has been something that's been going on now for months, and you and jay-z stepped in with the lawsuit because no one can explain all of these deaths. we're not saying all of them are gang related, that they're allowed to do it on torture, but

clearly this numbers raises the sense of peril for inmates that are there. >> like you said, 23, 24 deaths every two months. it's a big issue in america. the conditions that they live in, if you see pictures, video of the fearies on the floor, fearies in the water. mold on the beds, mold on the floor. just some of the pictures and videos you see, you wouldn't even believe it's real that their treated like this. >> and human rights activists, including me, have said attorney, that people who have committed a crime or suspected of a crime, you may incarcerate them but you don't treat them like they're not human beings and set them up or worse with torture, which is alleged in some cases, to be killed. >> for sure there are constitutional protections irrespective of what crime

someone may have committed that landed them in jail. they're entitled to constitutional protections, certainly basic human rights. food, clean water, the ability to shower. we have clients who didn't shower from over a month from christmas when the riots took place shortly after christmas and the prison was on lockdown, didn't get to shower. didn't get to leave their shows. of they were locked down for 24 hours. they couldn't see family, didn't have visitation. but the most basic human rights such as food and clean water, and as gotti said, to not have mold growing on the walls and rats and roaches changing them around and crawling through their food. >> the videos and pictures i have seen, some of the family members saying they've been treated like this over and over and over again with no redress until some of the activists and some of what you and jay-z have stepped in to try to do. >> another thing, it's 2020, if

animals were being treated like this, it would be a whole big outrage in the world. so treating human beings like this in 2020. >> what moated you to get involved? >> i'm from tennessee, one state over from mississippi. when i started seeing the pictures and videos, i familiar with family members in prison, my bother did time in prison, my father did time in prison but they're still human beings. they're no different than your family members. don't give them the right to treat them as the prisons are doing. >> you don't see other prisoners treated like this, attorney siev. wealthy and white prisoners go to most places you wouldn't even believe they're in prison in some cases. so this has racial elements, it has class elements and certainly

has the question of violation of human rights. >> it does. and what's particularly troubling about parchment in particular is there have been several heterral consent decrees over the years and yet we find ourselves back in the same place over and over. we so far filed two lawsuits alleging constitutional violations on behalf of close to 200 prisoners. and in the new lawsuit, one of the things we added based on some information that we've obtained since the filing of the fist lawsuit in january sent turyian, a health care provider, is provided inadequate health care. and we're looking very carefully now how private contracts have been awarded in the mississippi prisons. how is this happening over and over again? so we're taking a deep dive into all of the private contractors, how those were awarded and how those contracts are being

carried out. >> i'm out of time but your guidance to all of your fans and people who follow you all around the world, what do you want them to do to help them in this fight? >> i need them to speak up, because it's a big issue. you have big a big issue. you got billion-dollar companies who can supply the food for the prisons and supplying the medical for the prisons. a company of shareholders and boards and i don't know if they looking into it properly. we hold them responsible, as well, because they got the contracts with the prison in mississippi. i need everybody to speak up and make sure that everybody doing what they're supposed to do. >> all right. thank you both for being with us tonight. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. 1 in 3 deaths is caused by cardiovascular disease.

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