kansas city mayor luke ourks i'm glad you were able to vote, sir. thank you for your time. that will wrap up this hour of "msnbc live." "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports" -- spoesocial distancing. coronavirus cases are hard hit. and two democratic contender cancel their election night rallies. the dnc said no debate sunday. even more colleges are canceling the rest of their semesters. >> when someone coughs or sneeze, they can go three to five feet. so we say six feet distance. that's hard for do if you're going to school or work or different events. so social distancing means cutting those things down so people have a chance to get away from each other for a little bit, not a long period of time, just a few weeks.

to get that and slow growth, not a rapid blow. and joe biden is at it again. making the math nearly impossible for bernie sanders. the former vice president, whose campaign was on loife support a few weeks ago, is bringing the two sides together. >> i want to thank bernie sanders for supporting us with their tireless energy and passion. we share a common goal. and together we'll defeat donald trump. we will defeat him together. and this just in, we're expecting to hear from bernie sanders in burlington. he will be making a statement at 1:00 eastern from vermont. and what women want. even though there was no elizabeth warren endorsement, her supporters appear to have gone big for joe biden, who nearly dbled his supporters among college educated women last night. >> you have to do well with suburban women. joe biden is doing very well with suburban women.

>> it is my set as a ban senate some sort of signal went out. if it's true what they are seeing in the missouri exit that they are blocking biden in numbers, that has the making of the obama collision of 2008. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. more than 1,000 people across the country have been diagnosed with coronavirus, that number nearly doubling. the dow is falling over 1,000 points as the epidemic is vastically affecting events. and now a debate without the worldwide world attending. universities are canceling classes and moving to online learning after spring break. major sporting events are either

canceled or deciding whether to clear the stands. the new hot spot is new rochelle, new york, where a containment zone is in place. the national guard helping to stabilize testing and make sure there are no large gatherings. >> new rochelle is the hottest spot, if you will, in the country, the most dense cluster. people can come, people can go. there's no limitation on movement but no large gatherings because the large gatherings are where it spreads. >> joining me now or nbc's morgan radford in new rochelle, new york, and dr. natalie azar. first to you, morgan, in new rochelle. there you are outside of city hall in new rochelle, new york. this community is reeling. it's not as the governor was pointing out, it's not that people are getting stopped from entering the city but within the city and within the community, they have to be careful not to gather in large groups.

>> that's exactly right, andrea. this isn't so much about focusing on the people as it is focusing on the places. that's their strategy right now. as you mentioned, people are concerned. there's uncertainty, they're scared. i spoke to the mayor this morning and he really explained what this quarantined area -- excuse me, this zone. it's one mile in radius and effectively means any large meeting areas, schools, synagogues, churches, community sent ser centers are shut down the next two weeks. and that's starting tomorrow. look at what the mayor told me two minutes ago. >> i don't want to minimize the impact on this community. many are concerned about the health of their neighbors and family. this is changing not just by the day, but the hour. i think it would be foolhardy to make firm predictions where we can go. all we can do is make sensible health judgments as we get facts. >> andrea, every official we

have spoken to from the mayor to the superintendent said this could all change on a dime. this is a fluid situation. even if they get one more positive case, all of this could become expanded, the containment zone could become expanded. andrea? >> thank you so much to morgan radford. dr. azar, let's talk about social distancing, how that can work and where the testing needs to be done. obviously, the hot spot is the worst areas. >> right. andrea, to put it into context, the idea of social distancing really comes to what is referred to the mitigation phase of the outbreak. hopefully you identify and isolate and keep clusters just that, into clusters. once you have community spread and there's more widespread of disease transmission and the source of the exposure is no longer known, then you have it running a little rampant. then what you do is implement social distancing. we saw with the exponential rise

in the chinese cases and italian cases, this is what this virus likes to do. every person infected with coronavirus is thought to infect two other people. this is in contrast to influenza, which if you're infected with flu, you're only infecting one other person. right there you can see the numbers rise pretty significantly. we don't have a vaccine for this. we have no prof lattic medicine to treat even contacts of people who were potentially exposed. right now this social distancing is really the only effective mitigating intervention that public health authorities have at their disposal. >> and "the new york times" is reporting a doctor in seattle asked for tests and was denied by the fda. >> i know. >> that was at the containment stage, earlier stage where you had not had this kind of social contact. >> yes. i mean, the testing from day one has been a huge frustration for

those of us in health care. obviously, i keep a very close communication with our institution and getting updates on our readiness. i know, obviously, many, many public health labs and state labs are able to do testing. commercial labs, labcorp. quest apparently deployed resources but it's still not as easy as going to your doctor and getting a test for it. >> doctor, i wanted to show people what happened a 100 years ago, the difference between philadelphia and st. louis. >> yes. this was highlighted in a recent article in the atlantic and a picture speaks a thousand words. can you see the number of deaths were widely disparate in those two cities simply because of the measures that were taken to socially distance. >> let's talk a little bit more about why six feet is the recommended distance. >> so the main mode of

transmission of this virus is thought to occur via respiratory droplets. if an infected person coughs or sneezes they can expel virus that travels on a respiratory droblet. it's not sought to hang around air and dust the way measles can, for example. the virus travels on this respiratory droplet three to six feet and if it doesn't land on something, it's start to go to the floor. that's the recommendation from the three to six-foot circumference or barrier if you're in a crowded or hopefully not such a crowded area. >> dr. azar, it's a pleasure. thank you very much for your advice. we really appreciate it. meanwhile, president trump, of course, and congressional democrats are still at square one on any potential legislative pack aj package to help americans through the economic pressures the virus is causing. today robert redfield are attending the next steps and earlier have been on capitol

hill. joining me now is "today" co-host kristen welker and robert costa, moderator of "washington week" on pbs. we saw carol maloney on the house say opening the hearing and saying we understand, dr. fauci, dr. redfield, you have to speak quickly, shorten your opening statements because you have been called to an emergency meeting at the white house. another meeting with the vice president pence group. is there something we didn't know about? >> andrea, it was a previously scheduled meeting according to officials at the white house. they say this was something scheduled yesterday. look, having said that, they're downplaying this word emergency, but the bottom line is they're responding to what is -- >> sars was also a coronavirus. >> we apologize. there was a little bit -- dr. fauci's audio interrupting you. let's go back to you, kristen. >> so this was yet another meeting here that they are holding, andrea, to deal with

this ongoing crisis. they are downplaying the word emergency but they don't dispute the fact these meetings have been ongoing daily, ever since they started to respond to this crisis. so this is yet another one. now we know president trump is going to be meeting with bank ceos later on this afternoon. we are hoping that reporters are allowed into that meeting to ask him some questions about the broader response, and then they'll have the daily briefing at 5:30, in which we anticipate we may hear from the vice president again about all of this. but as you said at the top, andrea, they are not only right now trying to deal with the health crisis of this but also the economic crisis that is unfolding. and so treasury secretary steven mnuchin on capitol hill really taking the lead on that, trying to get that package passed. president trump, of course, was there yesterday and he floated some of his initial ideas, which would include a payroll tax cut. it would also include paid

family leave, support for small businesses. democrats have their own plans. they want to focus a little bit less on the payroll tax cuts and more on helping families and those who are out of work. they are hoping, andrea, hoping to get some sort of deal within the next 48 hours but it remains to be seen if that's going to happen. >> robert costa, of course, we had the problem with the speaker of the house and president of the united states have not conversed in months. speaker pelosi is working with the treasury significant mnuchin on how to try to iron out their differences but the toxic atmosphere between the two sides is one of the causes of concern here. >> in a conversation yesterday with former house speaker newt gingrich, he made a point that it doesn't matter if the leaders of the country do not like each other. at this point they're in a crisis situation and they're going to have to come together. the question facing the white house, based on my conversations this morning with top lawmakers, is will the white house come around on the house democrats' position on paid sick leave?

the white house economic adviser larry kudlow said he's exploring executive power, and executive orders, to pursue that policy so the white house would have more control. at the end of the day my top sources say the white house will likely have to come to a compromise with speaker pelosi on federal pay family leave, paid sick leave, to try to help give the house democrats some stimulus dollars along those lines if they also want to get a payroll tax cut. >> and what about the contradictions in messaging, robert? the president, even yesterday when he was coming out of that republican lunch meeting, he was talking about this is all going to go away. >> when you talk to governors in this country privately and top senators in the republican party, they say they wish the president would allow vice president pence to be the person who really comes up with the messaging here on the virus and management response because they think the president is too attuned to the stock market and trying to reassure the stock market day in and day out. larry hogan, the republican

governor of maryland, went on the record with "the washington post" saying he appreciates everything vice president pence is going but he's deeply concerned about president trump and everything he's saying in terms of the mixed messaging and contradictory responses. >> kristen welker and robert costa, thank you very much to both of you. breaking news from new york city where today disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in jail. last month the jury found the 67-year-old guilty of sexually assaulting former production assistant mimi haleyi and raping former aspiring actress jessica mann. more than 100 women accused weinstein of sexual conduct stretching back decades. fueling, of course, the me-too movement. he still faces rape and sexual assault charges in los angeles. no date scheduled for that as far as we know. coming up, biden's big night. does the former vice president now have a clear path to the nomination?

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we can't distance democratic voters who are just coming out in every corner of this country saying let's get on with this thing. our mission as a party is let's defeat donald trump. let's shut this puppy down and move on and worry about november. >> the immenable james carver's message for his supporters to keep his eye on the prize. joe biden's big string of wins tuesday night and delegate advantage may not be enough to convince sanders to step aside. the senator will detail his next steps for his campaign at the top of the hour for burlington, vermont. joining me now msnbc political reporter shack brew sister, "the washington post" political reporter eugene scott and real clear politics editor shackford

steel. shaq, first to you, what are you expecting? >> we're not shire whure what tt from bernie sanders at the top of the hour. this time four years ago he took he's time and questions there. and you saw also the vice president step up, the shift of strategy that came into last tuesday and into last week and the results that you saw yesterday. what was clear based on the results we saw yesterday, this campaign was not happy with what they say. they invested heavy in michigan and thought they could close that gap in polling that they saw he was able to do in 2016. his campaign and michigan, what it showed, was symbolic significance that he could not generate the excitement you continually hear senator sanders says he's able to do. he points to states like michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania saying the reason

why he's most electable is he can generate that excitement. his defeat last night a major blow to his campaign and we are expecting to hear from him about it for the first time since the result last night. >> jeremy, you spent a lot of time in michigan. what is your reporting on why that vote was different from four years ago? >> andrea, i think it comes down to the fact democratic voters are petrified of the possibility donald trump can be re-elected. this unlike anything i have seen in the presidential campaign that's i have covered has jolted them into almost this strategic sense they have about their voting. they are no longer interested in the theoretical discussions about what type of party the democratic party should be, how progressive it should be, what ideologically it should stand for. they're focused on one thing, and that's denying donald trump a second term. they don't believe bernie sanders is the one who's capable of delivering on that. so if they're not that excited about voting to be joe biden, they're going to still do so.

michigan's results last night shows us that. bernie sanders did not carry a single county in michigan and that's pretty extraordinary. i think it's explained by the fact 2016 certainly reknow was an anti-hillary vote in michigan. but this type of repudiation of bernie sanders there by voters really shows you how seriously they're taking this election. >> and, eugene, the delegate reality check, 682 delegates up for grabs in the next coming states, including next week and week after. we're talking next week, arizona, illinois, florida and georgia the following week. what history tells us throughout the last couple of weeks with south carolina and mississippi is that in the southern states, joe biden's going to do very well. florida is -- i would say off the charts biden after bernie sanders' comments, doubling down on the castro regime. also his relationship with apec,

the way he declined attending that conference. just the ethnic groups in florida, and some of the elderly as well who have been biden voters. so where does he pick it up? >> it's not clear. he was hoping to pick up with latino voters as he did well in california but we're seeing suggestions in polling that joe biden is doing way better in this group than previously believed. we are hoping sanders is hoping and leaning on college students, many of now are almost self-quarantined and can't go out to vote. but they weren't voting in high numbers before. >> they weren't voting in michigan for him in high numbers around the state. i, like many of us, were glued to kornacki all night targeting the counties that were university campuses in michigan and polling indicated they were in favor of him but they didn't show up. >> they didn't. people have wrong ideas about young voters. generation z seems to be overwhelmingly supportive of bernie sanders but older

millennials are backing biden in large numbers in states that i don't think the sanders' campaign really accounted for. this idea about excitement sanders said he's been able to generate or was able to generate in 2016, we just don't know if that's as true as it was. we know a lot of it was a disappointment with hillary clinton and looking for another option. this year they have another option. >> i thought in michigan bernie had a chance playing the nafta card. but maybe the auto bailout card trumped the nafta card with union workers, with the autoworkers. i suspect coronavirus and the way the president's behaved was a sobering effect on those people who cared more about electability, about going up against donald trump rather than ideology and principle. >> i come back to jeremy's point, which is the unifying powerful driver of all of these decisions and all of these numbers. increased turnout in republican

pockets, in michigan, urban areas, union household, black voters, nonwhite college, white college. this huge coalition, i think the factor is the need to defeat president trump. the coronavirus certainly plays into the narrative that it's not a time for an aspirational progressive agenda, that senator sanders knows can't pass in the u.s. senate. it's a time to defeat donald trump and stabilize an unstable government. i think senator sanders has to take -- i know he wants to do that debate. i know he wants to be revolutionary and have influence on the convention. he wants to make this last as long as possible but he really has to think about how badly and resounding he was beaten. and not one county in missouri, mississippi. that was incredible. same-day registration, he could have had a lot of college kids. nafta, he had an organization there four years. it was an incredible defeat. >> and we have not yet heard the results finally from washington state. but right now it's been tied overnight. and if it's a tie, he doesn't

gain anything in delegates, which is the coin of the realm at this stage in the campaign. jerry, let's talk about what might be motivating bernie sanders? let me just give you the time frame four years ago. four years ago even after california on june 7th when it was impossible for him to catch up with hillary clinton, different delegate math then because the rules were different but even easier -- easier arguably for the front-runner with super delegates being involved in an earlier stage. not only the second ballot. even four years ago, he endorsed on july 12th in new hampshire. he kind of hinted at it late in june, you know, but well after california. july 12th was his endorsement and it was a fairly begrudging one, frankly, having been there. and it was 13 days before the convention. so bernie sanders is probably hearing from people, you have a debate on sunday. maybe something will happen next tuesday. maybe the vice president will

make a gaff and not do well in the debate stage where he's not a strong a player as you are, bernie. >> i have been listening to a lot of bernie sanders supporters lately, andrea. one of the most interesting sthings i heard was last night from alexandria oscasio-cortez, who was very moderate in her tone. she was almost trying to be reassuring and soothing to bernie's supporters in saying, look, i understand you are all upset, but you have to also understand in essence that there are a lot of people out there who have been so traumatized by this presidency, that they will do anything they can to defeat it. and if that means voting for biden over bernie, that's what they're going to do. and i think we as a movement need to take that into consideration. it was insight i had not quite heard from her before but i think that's very telling about where the bernie sanders movement could be going here. >> jeremy, i had exactly the same reaction to that instagram posting last night.

thanks so much for your advice. and shaq, we will be watching unlistening for whatever bernie sanders does say. obviously, eugene scott, a.b. stoddard, thank you so much for being here. coming up, now or never. a dire warning or coronavirus will spin out of control. what needs to be done? that's next. stay with us on "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. what's going on? it's the 3pm slump. should have had a p3. oh yeah. should have had a p3. need energy? get p3. with a mix of meat, cheese and nuts. when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics

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experts are warning it is now or never if the u.s. wants to keep the coronavirus from burning out of control. this according to tom boss ert, a former homeland security adviser to president trump, who writes in "the washington post" -- school closures, isolation of the sick, home quarantines of those who have come into contact with the sick, social distancing and telework must be implemented before the spread of the disease in any community reaches 1%. simply put as evidence of human-to-human transmission becomes clear in a community, officials must put the trigger on aggressive interventions. time matters. two-week delay can mean the difference between success and failure. joining me is the former chief of staff and cia of the pentagon. you know tom, tom is a very cautious, careful guy.

he was the homeland chief in charge of this very subject, pandemics. and that office was shut down. tom left the nsc, wasn't replaced. and that's one of the problems people have been pointing to from this white house. >> that's right, andrea, tom bossard was the homeland security adviser. he came to work on homeland security issues including responses to pandemics and other health security issues. he's spoken truth to power since he's left office. in fact he famously stated on television he warned the president not to believe conspiracy theories about ukraine meddling in the election. and he hasn't been shy about explaining exactly where he sees some shortcomings. and he's calling out in this op-ed what he sees by short coming by the administration's approach to the coronavirus. first of all, they disbandse ba

his job and have not filled it. also they disbandsed a senior director who reported to the president and national security adviser to help the country and government prepare for pandemics, just like we've seen now. and the white house has taken that job and not filled it as well. >> as you're speaking and we're both sitting there, the world health organization has just declared this is a pandemic. this is their declaration. they put that out online on social media. we've known it was already that but the fact that it can double so quickly, the exponential -- just do the math. when one person -- one person in new rochelle, one father went to work, his kids went to school, his wife had interactions. they had interactions with the next door neighbors and you see now this hot spot is my hometown, and i'm watching pictures of my junior high school, city hall, the streets where we lived, this gets really, really personal. >> it is. and my heart goes out to the community of new rochelle as well. i've got family and friends

there, some of whom are under quarantine at this hour. i will tell you one thing i have heard talking to them, andrea, first of all it's taken too long to get tests to all of those who need tests. for even those who have gotten tests over this past weekend, they've not gotten results yet from the department of health. the government there, new york state government, new york city government, the federal government really needs to step up in getting test results. because you really have two choices. either you get a test result that shows you're negative or you have to stay in quarantine because you have to assume you're contagious. the way to avoid exponential growth, as you referenced, avoid the contact that can only be stopped by negative test or quarantine. >> we saw a relatively strong briefing from the vice president, obviously dr. fauci and others on the team. but look at what the president was saying in only the hour or two before. >> we're prepared and we're doing a great job with it. it will go away.

just stay calm. it will go away. we want to protect our shipping industry, cruise industry, our ships. we want to protect our airline industry, very important. but everybody has to be vigilant and has to be careful. but be calm. it's really working out. >> be calm, it's really working out. >> i think a message of calm actually is not by just words alone, it's by actions. the actions that the federal government needs to take are to expand dramatically the testing of this virus, getting results into the hands of people who have been tested and making clear exactly what the guidelines should be for public gatherings. we haven'thood th had that lead. i think that lack of leadership causes panic. you see it reflected in the stock market. people can remain calm but only if their leader tells them exactly what's going on. >> thank you very much, jeremy bash. appreciate that. coming up -- cyber insecurity to defend against

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his systems are hit by outside forces. so this is a threat to our financial situation, our electric grid, our personal bank accounts, you name it. this is a serious threat. that's number one. the essential of the report, however, is reorganize and get ourselves organized in such a way we can confront this problem head on. right now responsibility for cyber is scattered through the congress and scattered throughout the executive branch and we really don't have a coherent set of policies. that's number two. number three is establish a cyber strategy, particularly of deterrence. again, now people are coming at us in elections and in office of personnel managements, they're making these attacks and they pay no price. and we believe they have to be worried about what the results are going to be if they attack us. so that's sort of the big picture of where the report goes. but we have 75 detailed recommendations. we have been working on this for

a year, as you say. entirely bipartisan. we think this is an urgent matter we just have to confront now. if we wait five years, it will be a catastrophe. >> i realize that when you talk about cyber, you're talking about attacks on infrastructure other nuclear plants, electric grid, the big things, airline infrastructure, faa. >> how about hospitals? hospitals right now would be a problem. >> indeed. congressman gallagher, we also have to worry about election security, and that's been a red line for certainly for the president and the white house. the head of national intelligence may have been removed just because of that briefing that was held. is that part of this? >> it is a huge part of our final report. i would say we had exceptional participation on the commission from the executive branch. the military was represented. the dni was represented.

the fbi was represented. we had very productive conversations with our executive branch counterparts and proposed a series of security election initiatives. if you read our opening letter, senator angus king and myself, we talk about prioritizing election security not from just a top-down perspective but bottom-up perspective. how do we capitalize some of the great work going on in the nonprofit space to equip different campaigns, tribal governments, territories with the resources they need to secure their infrastructure, and also how can we provide resources to have an audible paper trail. yes, we recognize the irony of a cyber commission recommending paper balloting. >> congressman, also you're a military man. former marine. i have to tell you, i've had briefings from the military and from the cia back in the 1990s with the cia director telling me that cyber was his biggest concern.

and do you think that cyber command and the things that have been done since under general mack sony, who is still highly regarded, have improved our capabilities or we have not improved as quickly as our adversaries? >> absolutely. general nakasone's leadership has been exceptional. in 2018 the dod put forward a cyber strategy that talks about this con septs of defend forward. one of the things we do in our report, in our strategy is see how can we elevate the concept of defend forward and also extend it beyond the military across the federal government to build on nakasone's success. >> senator king, what are the next steps? how can you light a fire under people? >> well, the next steps are about -- as i say, we have about 75 recommendations is. about half of them require legislation. we're going to make it really easy for our colleagues. we're actually going to submit drafted bills. it's not just a series of recommendations. mike and i have hearings coming up in both the house and senate.

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as you know, bernie sanders is going to make his first statement, and our best information, my best information, is he's not suspending, he's not dropping out, despite a lot of pressure from the party after a really bad showing last night. showing. joe biden was able to win over a big block of college educated white women last night. an important group in the past for elizabeth warren who has yet to announce who she will endorse. bernie sanders also made gains with that group on a smaller scale with a 9% gain. during the 2018 midterms, suburban women will be key to beet donald trump. joining us now, former president of planned parenthood, and also the president in the center for american progress and formere a adviser to president obama. the facts of the case, bernie

sanders is well behind. it would be very hard for him to catch up. but become four years ago he was well behind and then california voted late in june, it was june 7th, i believe. hillary clinton pretty well nailed it. she has the super delegates in her favor which were first ballot voters back then. he did not endorse until july 12th, '13 days before the convention. what is the motivation for him to endorse or suspend or reunite with the party now since he has unlimited funds? he has raised more money online and continues to raise more money online than any president any presidential candidate in history. >> i want to be respectful of senator sanders. he's launched -- had an incredible campaign, and there are many more primaries to come, and i don't think anyone should be pushing him out of the race. i think that's counterproductive. i i would also say democratic voters are really focussed on

beating donald trump. so if the coming days and debates are about differences in policy, i think that's going to be more acceptable, but if they're about personal attacks, they're less susceptible. throughout the race senator sanders has made clear he would strongly support and campaign for whoever the nominee is if it's not him, he said that from the beginning. middle and end. and i take him at his word. >> there are more women voting than men, and cecile, a super majority has an online petition to choose a woman for the ticket. joe biden was asked about that from lawrence o'donnell. let's listen to that. just earlier this week. >> first of all, i think there are a number of incredibly competent women capable of being president that have run and haven't run yet. i trust all the women that are out there if they were to be my vice president. there are a number of women, and african americans as well who would meet that criteria. but i have not focussed on that

at this point. i promise my administration from the vice president on is going to look like the country. >> that seems to be leaning very far forward that he would be choosing a woman. how important is it to choose a woman? >> well, i think it's important that we have representative government, andrea. as we saw, women as you've been reporting, women have been dominating this entire primary process. we've been the majority of voters in every single state overwhelmingly african american women of course really turning the tide in south carolina. we saw again in michigan last night women were overwhelming majority of voters. women are just ready for a government that actually looks like us. and of course a lot of women wish there would be a woman nominee this time. i think women are ready as was said. ready to win. they're practical and focussed on winning but how important it is to have a ticket that actually says we see all of you, and we think that women can lead

as well as men, a lot of people say when will we ever have a woman president? i think the fastest way to short circuit that whole journey is to put a woman on the ticket this time. >> and, in fact, if joe biden were the nominee and by the way, shack brewster with the sanders campaign, our correspondent covering is confirming what i heard, he's not suspending his campaign, but we'll be listening closely to any hints from the tone of his speech at 1:00. but there are a number of women who have been mentioned. fred hyatt, the editorial director of the washington post said the choice should and almost surely will be a woman after watching the diverse field. he mentioned governors, gee in a from new mexico, the governor from michigan, stacey abrams is

always mentioned in georgia who has been working so hard -- >> it's a testament to how many fantastic women there are. i think the ticket is really important. the entire ticket is really important to have diversity of gender as i strongly support having a woman. i think racial diversity is also important. and id logical diversity. i think it's important for the vice president to figure out ways to reach out to the entire party as he has done over the last week and as he did last night. >> and we should mention amy klobuchar, elizabeth warren, and the women who have run, kamala harris. >> and klobuchar. harris, they're all fantastic. i think there is a sorrow that so many -- that we -- so many women have not been able to make it into the final two. >> nira and se seal, thank you. >> coming up, we'll answer al your questions about coronavirus. our correspondents covering that crisis. we'll talk about the medical issues. money, travel, social impacts,

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he's named after hall li's great, great grandfather. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchel reports. follow the show online, on facebook and twitter at mitchel reports. now here are joshua johnson and chris jansing in new york. welcome to a special hour of msnbc focussed on the coronavirus outbreak which the world health organization is now calling a pandemic. i'm chris jansing. >> i'm joshua johnson. we're expecting sanders to speak. let's listen in. >> let me begin by reiterating what i have said from day one of this campaign. and that