she also had a brief marriage, which gave garrett a kid brother, aaron. >> did garrett like to mess with>> all the time. >> he liked to play jokes, didn't he? >> april fools was his favorite day of the year. >> then tandy moved in with a sheriff deputy named john jones but it didn't last. >> how did the breakup go? >> not well. at one point, she said that john shoved her during an argument and that that was the last straw in that relationship. >> so in 2010, tandy was alone again. making ends meet as a bartender. that's when nick hillary walked in and pulled up a stool. >> so he's just a customer who comes in? >> yes. he came in on evenings after he was done work and coaching. >> they came from different worlds. she was local. the frozen north. he was from lush jamaica. >> what's a happy memory from jamaica for you, nick? >> going to the rivers. just swimming all day. coming back home. mom has a great home-cooked meal waiting for you. i mean, that's a fantastic day. >> he moved to brooklyn as a teenager and found his niche as a soccer star, earning a scholarship to nyu. but the kid from

[laughter] garrett: yay, bartenders. this particular word shows you the alliance that broke down between the suffrage movement and the temperance movement. now that women had the right to vote, and now that it was illegal for everyone to go to a saloon to drink, now women could equally break the law, along with men, and go to the speakeasies. so 1920's is really our first sexual revolution. family planning tools come into effect. women start cutting their hair. look at this woman. she is actually a dancer. this shot was done in 1925. women didn't cut their hair before the 1920's. it is just remarkable. she is showing how the young kids are partying today. you keep a hip flask in your garter. everyone does that today. women started getting in on the game as well. and it became fun to break the law. it is glamorous to break the law. really, breaking the law is glamorous? yeah, we became a nation of scofflaws. why did the country turn against prohibition? a couple of things happen. everyone saw the organized crime that was

thank you, garrett. i know you'll have the latest., the number of positive covid-19 cases rises, we are staggering news from university of washington. 80,000 could die in the next four months from covid-19. joining me, dr. ben gupta, from washington medical center, nbc news medical contributor happily. put this into context. is this a prediction, a forecast, a guess? >> i think my colleagues at the institute of metrics and evaluation have done us a great service and the government should feel the same way an act accordingly. these are forecasts, best predictions using the latest modeling techniques from an organization that models this day in, day out. other types of population statistics. they're the definitive source. if i was the trump administration, i would look at the projections and say these are the places i need to put ventilators, they give the estimates at the state level. as an icu doc, caring for patients last night, if i was a hospital administrator, i would want visibility on these types of numbers. if we don't fill thi

garrett, what exactly are the sticking points? democrats aren't comfortable and even some republicans aren't comfortable with steve mnuchin having a $500 billion fund at his discretion to help bhwhomev he wants. earlier today, i spoke to senator elizabeth warren who says the first thing she wants is for all student debt to be forgiven. >> you laid out the biggest single sticking point for democrats which is that 500 billion set aside for businesses that would be controlled almost directly by mnuchin. mnuchin doesn't have to disclose where that money would go for several months. negotiation owes that point continue. steve mnuchin has been going back and forth all day long. >> garrett? >> yes? >> i'm going to jump in because speaker pelosi is at the podium now. >> and differ better coverage to more than 150 million americans with health insurance through their employer. we passed the affordable care act because we believe in the united states of america health care must have a right, not a privilege. the late senator ted kennedy mad

garrett, how will senator harris's endorsement help biden? >> reporter: well, she's expected to appear with biden tomorrow night in detroit. a city where biden hopes to turn out large numbers of african-americans and union members. not to be outdone, bernie sanders has a top surrogate, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez here at the university of michigan. >> thank you very much >>> across the globe, from the philippines to mexico, to the uk and france, today there were rallies, honor of internal women's day. the mood was celebratory in most locations. but in pakistan and kurdistan, protester hurled shoes and stones and effigys. >>> still ahead tonight, if you can' avoid taking a plane what you can do to stay healthy when are you in the air during the coronavirus outbreak >>> also, millions o americans qualify for free tax returns why are so many paying for the service? >>> tonight many concerned about coronavirus are wondering how to stay safe when they fly. here's nbc's sam brock. >> reporter: to fly or not to fly, with cases of coronavi

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msnbc's garrett haake is on capitol hill. garrett, just, let's start from scratch here and pretend that we don't know what's going on between these two plans. there's a senate plan that is now reaching bipartisan agreement and a separate house plan. just tell me how that works. why there are two competing plans. >> reporter: well, because there's two competing visions about the best way to tackle this crisis. the house plan is a statement of values, essentially, by house democrats. it's the kind of thing that they would like to see enacted across the board, including those changes to election law, that you mentioned. but the reality is, the republicans still control the united states senate and the white house, which makes a democrat-only house plan more or less a non-starter. a reality that nancy pelosi acknowledged in an interview with andrea mitchell earlier today, when she talked about what house democrats options really are at this point. take a listen. >> my hope is that while we're in the red zone here, that we get acr

msnbc's garrett haake joins us now from capitol hill. garrett, there have been a number of things in the last couple of days that have raised some flags. this one is with republican senators, something they're saying is a drafting error. what are they talking about? >> reporter: ali, this is an enormously complicated bill with a lot of money in play. republicans and democrats alike are going over it with a fine-tooth comb. in their review this morning, some republican senators found what they thought is either a drafting error or a case where the language of the bill doesn't do what they thought it was going to do related to bonuses and unemployment insurance. the idea is for folks to get not what they normally get from unemployment insurance, but additional moneys on top of that. these republican senators discovered in some of their states, based on the way unemployment insurance is calculated there, that additional money on top could make it so people would make more money from collecting unemployment than they would have from the jobs

jose >> garrett haake, thank you very much. >>> joe biden's projected win is significant, because moren half of today's voters are african-american, and the outcome here in south carolina could foreshadow how biden and the other candidates will do across the rest of the south. >> reporter: at this family-owned bakery in columbia, south carolina, the conversation - >> about ten minutes away from being done. >> reporter: -- isn't limited -- >> we do discuss politics >> reporter: -- to cake >> a lot >> reporter: rosa daniels has owned main street bakery almost 20 years using recipes handed down through generations. >> this one is a strawberry cake. >> reporter: working with her kids dana and billy, a united family, but a split vote >> i voted for biden i don't mind saying that. >> i'm voting today and leaning towards steyer. >> leaning towards elizabeth warren. >> reporter: rose's top concern, gun safety. >> i know you have a right to carry guns but didn't say anything about assault rifles. >> reporter: brother and sister looking for civility. >> what do you care about? >> gosh. i care ab

joining me now from capitol hill, garrett haake for us. garrett, my friend, good afternoon to you. thanks for joining us on this. i think the question on so many americans minds is whether we going to see the results of this, the benefits from this bill? >> yeah, look, even if the house had passed this yesterday, it will still be a couple of weeks before anybody's able to see those direct payments or the plussed up unemployment benefits promised in the bill. the best estimate is it will take three weeks for payments to come out. that's only for folks who use direct deposit when you file your tax returns. that's the mechanism that all of this is being done. if you get a check for your tax returns, this kwo take longer. we do expect to see the house act quickly tomorrow the. president's given every indication he'll sign it right away. but just a sheer scale of what we're talking about is going to take some time. >> just quickly here with regards to gig workers and freelance workers, i have a lot of those people asking me that question as to whether or not they'll be able to apply for

let's go straight to garrett haake on capitol hill. garrett, democrats say republicans, they only want to do a deal that helps big business while republicans say democrats are putting politics before helping people. so what's the latest? >> this is a dangerous place to be for straw men today. there's a whole lot of arguments going around that aren't about the core issues. right now negotiations continue even at this moment between the treasury secretary and chuck schumer about the final elements of this bill. the sticking points remain what they were yesterday. this $500 billion fund for larger businesses and how it will be controlled. schumer said late last night the secretary of treasury had agreed to some oversight on that money. we don't know much more detail about that yet. and then there's a question of getting more money to state and local governments and to the hospitals that are on the front line of this crisis. make no mistake, the pressure is enormous on these lawmakers to get it done, whether it's from their constituents ba

liz: laurie garrett, author of "the coming plague" joins us once again. you were right. in hindsight, the doctor was wrong but perhaps he was just following that protocol of what is an emergency globally, pandemic, where you have mass spreading very quickly from one person to another. what do you think of how the world health organization handled that back then? >> i think they were very slow and reluctant to declare a public health emergency of international concern. i think that should have been declared much sooner. on the other hand, you can say what changed when they did make the declaration. the world bank is refusing to release pandemic relief funds to assist poor countries in preparing. they are sitting on this huge pile of money and they won't let go of it. we see donors have only put up about $100 million to help the world health organization fight this epidemic. that's a rounding error in most corporations. and you know, you declare a giant emergency and you just don't see the kind of reaction from the world community, i think we are in a state of massive deni

garrett hake is there talking about the biden campaign and the ground game. he's visited there a few times. i think it's five visits. in dallas last night, garrett, having that huge moment where the moderate lane, klobuchar, buttigieg, beto o'rourke around biden. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. if you thought south carolina was joe biden's early state fire wall, you can think of texas as his super tuesday firewall. it's the bull work against bernie's good night. joe biden has been targeting parts of the state where he could use turnout to perform well. that includes harris county where i am, ha downtown houston, district like dallas and the dallas suburbs. there's no accident that that moderate endorsement palooza happened last night. all of the suburbs around dallas linking it to fort worth are going to be huge battle grounds. a vote rich place for joe biden. and to latino voters who make up 40% of the vote tonight. >> we have a real tight race so far down there. we'll see how it plays out. >> david plouffe was barack obama's campaign manager in 2008. how i

. >>> let's go straight to msnbc's garrett haake on the hill. garrett, how did they get to yes? >> reporter: stephanie, really the only part of this package that wasn't at least tinkered with was the small business portion. every other element had some kind of changes imposed on it. i think some of the big sticking points in the end are how to take care of airlines and airlines workers, how to make sure the money for state and local governments was going to be enough, at least to bridge them through to a phase 4 deal, which make no mistake another package will come down the pipe eventually. and how to access that $500 billion set aside for the companies. i'm told there's an advisory board put in place. companies will have to disclose fairly quickly if and when they receive money. the full text is not even out yet, with the bill this massive, with spending this high, republican senators in particular wanted to make sure they went over it with a fine-toothed comb. there was nothing in this bill that wasn't intentional, and when they take this to the floor this afternoon, they can

garrett graduated from harvard in 1963. he has had a 30-year emmy and peabody award-winning career in television news and documentaries. jeanne ellsworth has a ph.d. in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from elementary school to prisons, to universities. the authors live in rocksbury, new york. please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] >> well, thank you for enlightening us, and i'll let you know the book is called "the last negroes at harvard." 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and that's what we were called then, and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. we were from all different parts of the country -- north, south, east and west -- and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. and we, heretofore they'd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. and most guys would just go and do their fo

garrett haake in illinois, thank you. gadi just mentioned one of our colleagues at 30 rock that we've lost to coronavirus. we're actually going to have more on him in just a few moments, a colleague and a friend as well. before we do that, though, let us turn for a moment to the governor of new york. this is around the time that he provides a daily briefing of course, new york hardest hit so far with regards to this coronavirus. let's listen in to governor cuomo. >> so the number of acute cases are coming in to the health care system. the growth in the number of acute cases must match the capacity of the health care syst system. that's what we've been watching. we've watched the rate of icu hospitalizations, the difference between how many beds you need versus how many icu beds. the real focal point, the rate of ventilated patients because that goes to the number of ventilators as we've been discussing. those are the three most critical points. there was a discussion with all the hospitals, of course, the state of new yor

joining us now, nbc's garrett haake on capitol hill. garrett, can you delve more into what this package does? when you say stimulus, that makes things better and brighter, but what this does is dig out of despair. >> some of this is purely stimulus, so you can pay for your rent and your short-term needs. there is money going to hospital systems, tens of billions of dollars of it, to help them cope with the cost of treating coronavirus. think of each state spending billions of its own dollars trying to make sure people are treated and taken care of as their revenues are going down. then there's revenue for businesses both small and large to help keep their businesses open in the long term even if they have to keep them shut in the short term. this is such a massive transfusion of cash, it's hard to get your mind around. $2 trillion of money is being spent across the board here. a little something for everybody. we heard people on both sides saying nobody got exactly what they want here, but the need is urgent, the time of negotiations is

garrett, i'm going to begin with you. it's probably safe to say that many house members not too happy with their fellow congressman thomas massie of kentucky who has had to force all of them back to washington, d.c., to pass what is expected to be a very, i would say, routine procedure. where do you think it stands this hour? >> reporter: it's pretty rare that you have one single individual unite both parties and become the most disliked man in washington and that's what kentucky republican thomas massie has managed to do with the threat looming he might call for a roll call vote on this $2 trillion relief bill set to be voted on around noon today. the hope had been that this could be done via voice vote. but he's indicated he might call for a roll call vote. his colleagues are expressing their displeasure with him. we saw a number of tweets overnight from fellow members of congress complaining about having to come back to washington on short notice at a time where a lot of people are trying not to travel to gather on the

msnbc garrett haake is standing by. let's talk about the scramble for members of congress to get back to the hill, garrett. how real is the worry that this package may actually be in jeopardy? >> make no mistake. this package will pass and will pass with an overwhelming bipartisan majority just like it did in the senate. the question is when and the person who controls that clock right now is thomas masse from kentucky who has signaled he wants to make sure there is a roll call vote that members stand up and have their votes counted in the actual body as opposed to doing this by voice vote, which would have only required a small fraction of members to come back to washington, d.c. for now a man who is perhaps most well known for his annual calls for open up production of raw milk is now requiring his colleagues including some from places under quarantine to come back and cast their votes. the president of the united states call ed and suggested he be kicked out of the republican party for this. can the house get above 2

expect both campaigns to put a lot of resources into that state. >> garrett haake in chicago, thank you very much. >>> prince harry and meghan markle are back in london tonight for a round of final appearances with senior members of the royal family sarah harmon is there. >> reporter: meghan and harry giving britain a glimpse of what they'll soon be missing. meghan marking international women's day at a london school, encouraging boys to speak up during her friday visit. >> it's very easy to sometimes compartmentalize or silo this idea of international women's day solely being about women. but it's not, it's about all of us. >> reporter: and leaving students speechless tonight's stop on the whirlwind farewell tour, the royal albert hall harry's final engagement as captain general of the royal marines. the queen has requested he give up that honorary title once they step back at the end of march their departure is not the only headache for the royal family at the moment prince harry's uncle prince andrew is facing mounting questions over his links to jeffrey epstein. britain's "telegraph

garrett haake will no how close that is to crossing the goal line. pelosi's take was that they were likely to not have a vote today but have a deal today. that's very important for markets, of course. and then with the procedural measures, if they can reach consent or at least quickly vote and have other ways to iron out the house rules, get it to the house, rather than going through an amendment stage and conference committee, which would be eles endless, but they not agreeing to remote voting. that is not in the cards right now. >> you are speaking about how this is all playing out. of course, just as it was during your hour in our special coverage we have on the screen, the indicators on the right side of the screen, you have the grim numbers, worldwide and then the u.s. the u.s. has become a larger host country for this pandemic. but beneath that the market watch which would suggest to your point, andrea, that the markets, among other things, think this is going in the right direction. at least day trading on the expectation of all this happening

haake, i know you will, garrett. thank you, mike, shank you shaq. let's bring in the chair of the michigan democratic party. she's there in detroit. la voir a? >> i know at this point it would be moran he can dotely. turnout so far in michigan, how would you characterize it? >> we have a number, almost a million folks requesting absentee ballots. the polls are moving along smoothly. an easy vote. you vote one. in some places there are other things on the ballot. there aren't lines yet that i've seen. but lots of people are voting. >> in 2016, as you know, president trump won your state by just 10,704 votes. we should point out, that's out of 4.5 million votes cast. it was a razor-thin margin to say the least. what are you doing this time around to make sure that that doesn't happen to your party's nominee again in 2020? >> all right. so craig after that 2016 loss, we started a grassroots field program that's been on the groundworking hard ever since. we've got dozens of folks on the ground. you've got thousands of vo

msnbc's garrett haake is at his post there. there was a lot of tense finger-pointing during the negotiations, but they were able to hammer out a deal in the early morning hours, garrett. walk us through what made it into it. >> reporter: craig, they added money to just about every part of the deal, from the cash payments going out to individuals to how much money states and localities to get, how much money hospitals will get on the front lines. democrats are also pleased they were able to add more oversight to the money that will go to big corporations, making sure that money is reported out essentially as it happens and money can't go to things like the president's family businesses, for example. we're in the golden age of conference calls on capitol hill. members are getting briefed on all the details of this bill. both parties in both houses, quite frankly, as everyone is being brought up to speed quickly on what has been a marathon series of negotiations over the last several days. here is how chuck schumer, the top democr

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garrett haake. i want to continue with our coverage of the house vote coming two days after the senate unanimously approved that package. jo joining us now is jeff merkley, senator, your sense of what this bill is going to do. the market is off today. we have had a couple of record-breaking days. so, clearly, some people are getting the impression that this may have some meaningful effect, but a lot of people say, it can't possibly be enough. >> ali, it's a massive infusion of funds into the economy and it's for those workers who are laid off, it will give them 100% of their income u it encourages small businesses, really up to 500 people to keep their employees employed which will allow the businesses recover faster when we get to the other side of this. this has a lot in it that's going to help on the large and medi medium-size business and a massive investment in health care. stabilization fund for state and local governments. that's just the headlines. there is a lot more things beyond that on h

how are folks in illinois preparing for this one, garrett?> reporter: well, alex, the city of chicago had been walking toward this stay at home order for a couple of days before the governor put it into place. they extended the break in the school year until late in april. you saw more and more people get off the streets. we had restrictions on bars, restaurants, and social gatherings for several days. the governor's order last night, which doesn't go into effect until 5:00 tonight, allowed people certainly in the greater chicagoland area, which of course is a huge percentage of the total population here in illinois to get used to this idea. you also heard from the governor and chicago's mayor last night urging people to treat today almost like any other day. to not go out and panic pie, not feel like you have to overstock, not clear out the grocery store shelves. all those services will remain open as the stay at home order goes into effect. some of those we were talking to, it seems like the orders were listened to. take a listen to some of

garrett haake has more from washington for us. what can we expect >> reporter: tonight's debate will be the first debate done not in front of a live audience in 60 years. expect to see front runner joe biden trying to be a unifying figure for all americans, including publicly bracing bankruptcy plan that had originally been put forward by his former rival, elizabeth warren bernie sanders will have a choice to make does he attack biden or try to focus on the issues he cares most about like medicare for all. expect both men to talk a great deal about the coronavirus crisis, itself, which has upended this campaign forcing normal political events all online this will be the last chance for voters in four states to get one more good look at these two candidates before they vote on tuesday. after that, things get a little bit more uncertain two states, louisiana and georgia, have already announced they're pushing their primaries back until later in the summer. kate >> garrett haake, thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, schools across the

let's bring in our chief washington correspondent major garrett.or, where could these endorsements help joe biden? >> so, positive developments, but probably not going to have maximum impact tomorrow night, norah. why? because three big states-- california, texas, colorado-- have been voting for a while. it takes a while for voters to process this. plus bernie sanders and his supporters are going to look at this and say the establishment is after us, we better gird and work even harder, not only now, but in the contests to come. so what are the contests to come well, next week, several races, two big prizes, michigan and ohio, 261 delegates. one week later, three contests, florida, illinois, arizona, 441 delegates. the message to those thinking about joe biden, he can deny bernie sanders the nomination outright and keep this fight going. >> o'donnell: some big prizes still ahead even after super tuesday. what kind of pressure does this put on mike bloomberg and senator elizabeth warren? >> completely different. first of all, mike bloomberg, what is

garrett, how important are the next few days for sanders? i have to imagine extremely. >> oh, lindsey, they are absolutely critical. one state more than any other. sanders may be here in chicago later today for a show-of-force rally but his campaign is retrenching to michigan. that state, an all but must win for him in the face of joe biden's momentum and what's now really a two-man race. over night, bernie sanders on the attack against joe biden. >> i opposed that war. joe biden voted for that war. >> at a rally in detroit, the vermont senator took aim at biden's record on trade, the iraq war, and other issues. drawing sharp contrasts, and hoping to blunt the former vice president's surging campaign momentum. >> if we are going to defeat trump in michigan, in pennsylvania, and wisconsin, it will be very hard for a candidate who voted for these disastrous trade agreements. >> for sanders, now trailing behind in delegates, michigan is critical. michigan is the largest of six states voting on tuesday with 125 delegates up for grabs. meanwhile,

garrett? >> greg: barack obama is the mrs. of life" >> katie: beto o'rourke in texas, the timing interesting beto o'rourke did well against ted cruz and joe biden caught by bernie sanders in texas. so whether he still has a poll after his presidential run, the timing is interesting. one mor"one more thing" up next. ♪ yeah, like a regular person. no. still half bike/half man, just the opposite. oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top? yeah. yeah, i could see that. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+/her2- metastatic breast cancer, as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole significantly delayed disease progression versus letrozole, and shrank tumors in over half of patients. patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell count

. >>> nbc's garrett hague in the meantime is live for us in chicago. garrett, how are people there react to go this new statewide stay at home order that came in overnight. >> well, kendis, this will be the final step in what's been a slow walk towards chicago and the illinois/chicagoland area shutting down as restrictions have tightened and tightened and tightened. today, that order to stay at home goes into effect at 5:00 this evening. we expect to see a continuation of what we've seen over the last couple of days. people going out to shop, to buy their essentials. that will still be allowed after this order goes into place. but as rumors have spread, people have been going out and trying to take care of as many errands as they can as early as they can. here are some of the shoppers that we spoke to yesterday. take a listen. >> i think i have everything at home, you know, we'll still be able to go out 1k3g9 food and stuff. so should be all set there. and i think we're ready for it just as the announcements and updates. >> i'm not going to lie. it's s

joining me from capitol hill, msnbc correspondent garrett haake. let's start with you on this one. a lot of americans weighing the package of phase three of the stimulus bill. talk to us about the timing from what you're hearing. >> reporter: keep in mind, this is a bill that will approach a thousand pages long, $2 trillion in spending. a lot of ironing out to be done to be sure the legislative language does what senators intend it to do before they can pass it today. that could happen sometime this afternoon or this evening. senators are committed to getting it done today. a press conference is beginning as i speak with republican senators that are concerned about the way some of the unemployment insurance parts of this are structured and written, suggesting it might provide incentive for companies to layoff employees rather than to keep them. we have not seen the language for that portion of the bill, i am relying on their summary at this point. i am going to hustle there to get more information as soon as we're done speaking. then the question of what the house does with the bil

i want to take you now down to capitol hill where garrett haake is standing by.garrett, people are anxious to get these checks. how fast does this thing get signed? >> it could get signed as early as this weekend but that doesn't mean the checks will get to you that fast. it's our understanding for folks -- the amount of money individuals will get, the direct money that will go to families and people out of the country is based on your tax filings over the last couple of years. if you have direct deposit, if you get your tax return deposited directly into your checking account you could see your money in three to four weeks. that's not in time to help you with april rent but it's the fastest way they can get it to you. if you don't have direct deposit and they have to cut you a physical check, you are looking at a couple of months. if you don't have a physical bank they are looking at sending out debit cards preloaded with the money. but given the sheer number of people who will be getting some kind of financial assistance from the federal government here, this i

garrett haake is at a polling location in grand rapids, michigan. i believe you're in kent county, garrett, where bernie sanders won handedly in 2016. how badly does he need a win there again today and what are you hearing from voters on the ground? >> yeah, ayman, this is a big bernie sanders county four years ago. he needs it to turn out for him again. he had a rally be about 8,000 people. huge attendance here. and it's a blue collar county and a place where he's hoping that voters like michael might make a difference here. what was the most important reason you voted for bernie sanders today? >> i don't think sanders is a perfect candidate. i think he has some flaws. but i think he's the only candidate that's really speaking to what i see as the major serious issues of today, things like student debt, health care, things like the widening gap between the rich and the poor. i think he is a candidate that is really addressing things that people are most worried about today and i don't think any other of the candidates are taking that seriously enou

garrett, let's go straight to you on capitol hill.s we mentioned, breaking news coming out within the last hour, a deal potentially being reached. we're watching the senate come back into session. we're going to bring that to you live if and when we hear from the senate majority leader and chuck schumer. but walk us through your new reporting on this. >> reporter: things seem to be moving quickly here towards a possible deal. the treasury secretary has arrived on the hill with the incoming commander in chief mark meadows. they had spoken to the president, republican members on a conference call and they were going to brief the majority leader on the outlines of this possible deal here. democratic sources tell my colleagues that democrats have managed to secure some of the things that they wanted to see in this bill including expanded unemployment insurance for up to four months for complete pay for people who are affected by this, more money for front line hospitals and a better system of direct payment for those who are affected by t

garrett, what more are you learning about this? >> reporter: stephanie, still no text of a ball and still no official announcement of a deal yet. we are hearing more and more details about what's been worked out in this package including significantly expanding unemployment insurance for workers, possibly lasting for several months at the full amount of their pay. we're also hearing about additional assistance for hospitals, 100 billion in total including as much as $75 billion in pure cash payments. then the question you were talking about, as assistance for larger companies. democrats have been concerned about the oversight of that into how that money would be spent. one of the solutions that appears to be emerging is essentially an oversight board that would work with the treasury secretary on how those decisions are made and having the secretary himself potentially come and testify about how and when he's planning to spend that money to help larger companies. there's a significant sense today, even more so than yesterday, of th

let's bring in major garrett. major, where could these endorsements help joe biden? >> positive developments, but they're probably not going to have maximum impact tomorrow night. why? three big states have been voting for a while. it takes a while for voters to process this. plus bernie sanders and his supporters will say, the establishment is after us, we better gird and work even harder, now and in the contests to come. so what are the contests to come? well, next week, several race, eral race,rprises, michigan and ohio, 216 delegates. one week later, florida, illinois, arizona, 441 delegates. the message to those thinking eneethis fightn, he can deny going. >> o'donnell: some big prizes still ahead even after super tuesday. what kind of pressure does this put on michael bloomberg and senator elizabeth warren? >> completely different. first of all, michael bloomberg, what is his slogan? mike gets it done. delegates and victories. if he doesn't have much for either, the rational implodes. elizabeth warren, who will pressure the only woman to get out? possibly to po

. >>> garrett haake, no developments coming out of capitol hill. unemployment claims puts an exclamation point on the urgency needed for the bill passed last night and back at the house. talk to us about what is next including most importantly when americans might see that money in their bank accounts. >> reporter: let's talk about next steps. the house is expected to take this bill up friday morning, assuming they pass it by close of business friday, which i think is fair. it would go to the president's desk for his signature, the treasury secretary and the president said yesterday he'd do that as soon as possible. then it's a matter of probably a couple weeks until this bill can start turning out actual checks, actual money to americans in distress. now for folks who filed their taxes and get direct deposits back, you could see money in your account as soon as three to four weeks from now. and how much money that will be depends on how much money you make, up to $75,000 a year. you could get a direct deposit of 1200 bucks, double the numbers for

garrett tenney is following that part of the story for us, hey, garrett. >> i'm not running for presidentr running for president. >> new york, new york, governor andrew cuomo is becoming a household name in one of the leading faces of the u.s. response to the coronavirus pandemic. his daily briefings are offered and carried live across the networks with millions of americans tuning in it while there stuck at home. his handling of the outbreak has drawn bipartisan praise in the new siena college in tomei college poll shows 87% of new yorkers approve of it as well while only 41% said the same of president trump. but even the commander in chief is offering a bit of praise for the governor. >> i wouldn't mind running against enter. i've known enter for a long time. i wouldn't mind that but i'll be honest i think it would be a better candidate than sleepy joe. >> my only goal is to engage the president in partnership. this is no time for politics. and, you know, lead by example. >> one democrat struggling to break into the new cycle amidst the coronavirus as the parties present of nominee who

msnbc's garrett haake joins us now from capitol hill. garrett, we've had a couple of near misses on this bill. it nearly got derailed by some senate republicans. is there any chance that it gets derailed when the house takes the measure up tomorrow because as of now this bill is not passed? >> reporter: that's right. highly unlikely this thing gets derailed tomorrow although it will go through voice vote, not unanimous consent which is fast but not the fastest option available. it is the goldy locks option available because they know there are some republican members who want to come to washington and vote against it. i asked speaker pelosi about this earlier this morning and here's what she told me. >> unanimous support from your democrats tomorrow on this bill? >> yes. well, let me say this, i'm not asking -- we will have a victory tomorrow for america's workers. if somebody has a different point of view they can put it in the record, but we're not worried about that. >> reporter: ali, for process nerds, voice voting is pretty old scho

kristen welker, garrett haake, elizabeth cameron. garrett, we haven't brought new yet. give us the latest from the hill. there's some doubt what mitch mcconnell will do. tim kaine on the democratic side just now saying they've got unanimous consent. their whip is done on the senate side, at least they believe so. but it doesn't sound as though nancy pelosi has all of her troops in order from phone calls. >> yes, she may not yet. she may not yet. >> because they would let them go today and only call them back on emergency basis, right? >> that's right. andrew cuomo in the last hour may not have helped either. there's tons of conference calls going on around the capital as senate and house members are being briefed on this plan that will come in over 1,000 pages. most members have not worked on anything except the sections they were responsible for. and that's just the senate side. the house side is trying to get brought up to speed realtime. and things that could be sticking points on the you outside includes provisions around $500 million for distressed larger corporati

going to start with garrett on capitol hill.ou and i have been speaking offline a little bit. a lot of moving pieces. are we seeing this move towards some kind of compromise before noon? >> reporter: that's certainly the hope. the treasury secretary is on the hill right now. he's going back and forth between the democratic and republican leaders' offices trying to hammer out this massive spending bill that could be passed through the senate as early as today. the sticking points that remain, democrats would like to see more money earmarked for opt systems and to protect workers. but the biggest issue seems to be this 500 billion bailout fund. democrats thinks there aren't enough springs attached. that is probably the single largest hangup now. as these negotiations go on, as we get closer to potentially a next vote here sometime after noon. things are getting a little bit chippy. we're seeing republicans accusing democrats of putting campaign items in the bill. the hope is that this vote that is scheduled to happen sometime in t

garrett, how does it look out there?> reporter: well, katy, we've seen pretty consistent lines of people here all day long. not lines forming for long. the ballot in michigan is pretty straight ahead today. it's just the presidential primary vote. so people have been coming in and casting ballots all day long. we're in an area that went for donald trump in november of 2016. went fairly heavily for bernie sanders in the primary. he nearly doubled up hillary clinton in this county. and most of the voters i'm talking to today are reflecting that sentiment in favor of bernie sanders, including one young man i spoke to just a short time ago. take a listen. >> i think the biggest issue for me is the health care issue. i think medicare for all is a really comprehensive plan. and i have a lot of friends and family who not all desperately need affordable health care right now or access to health care, but they need medical care and i think that it's a lot more comprehensive than just kind of moving forward with the aca. >> katy,

joining us now is garrett haake from the hill. garrett, can you bring us up to date on exactly how you think this is going? because every time mitch mcconnell gets on the floor, you have a counteraction from the democrats, and both sides sniping at each other, and meanwhile, as we see, no vote on a bill that was supposed to be marked up friday night, go up for the first votes over the weekend and be ready for final passage this week. >> reporter: yeah, andrea. there's not even text of this bill that you and i could read right now if we wanted to. look, real debate on the senate floor is rare. real emotion in that debate rarer still. and that's exactly what's going on right now. senators, particularly republican senators in the last half hour, have been furious that their democratic colleagues are not allowing this procedural vote to go forward so they can win the partical lance of the senate and get on this bill so they can start debating the actual merits of what might be in it self, rather than the procedural hurdles that in the

garrett haake in houston and steve kornacki is posted up at the big board. so mike, we'll get to the other candidates assessing their campaigns in a moment, but joe biden is feeling good about his campaign. talk through what you're hearing from the sources as they gear up for potentially gathering more delegates in the next election next week. >> well, hallie, the biden team was feeling good last night especially when there were the early calls in virginia and north carolina. they were feeling great when we saw only of the surprise -- some of the surprise states come in, massachusetts, places that we weren't expecting him to win. but the icing on the cake was the late call of texas. that had been a real focus of theirs. the biden team felt better about super tuesday than us in the media were expecting in terms of his performance, but the kind of result that we saw last night really has helped reenforce their theory of the case. has helped to bolster the case that we'll start to hear more about in the days and weeks ahead. you heard him talk himself as the mo

and now joining us from capitol hill is correspondent garrett haa haake. tell me what it is like going on up there? >> well, it is a ghost town. it is a bizarre atmosphere up here. there are fewer reporters, and a fewer lawmakers and fewer staff. with one house in operation right now, the senate, you would expect to see a lot more people up here than you would on a weekday of a major major piece of legislation is worked on. that is not the case up here. it is an absolute feel that is going on here is unlike anything they have ever experienced covering capitol hill. and now, as to where we are in this all of this, the negotiations are continuing. and secretary mnuchin is going back and forth between schumer and mcconnell's offices all day long and continuing to try to hammer out the bigger points in this which is coming back to the $500 billion fund to bailout or help to provide the loans to larger businesses that don't have enough transparency or oversight for democrats, and getting more money to the state and local governments and hospitals. those are the

shannon. >> shannon: all right, garrett, that's the silver lining, thank you.t appears voters into mice primary were not kept him in big numbers over coronavirus worri worries. six states, michigan the biggest prize, with its 125 delegates, the two front runners, former vice president joe biden and senator bernie sanders canceled their election night event. correspondent peter doocy joins us now from cleveland to get us up to speed. hello, peter. >> shannon, joe biden is already making a play tonight for the support of bernie sanders, who won't speak at all this evening, and his millions of supporters. >> i want to thank bernie sanders and his supporters for their tireless energy and their passion. we share a common goal, and together we will defeat donald trump. >> and what a difference a few hours makes. first thing this morning biden told a factory worker in michigan, who challenged his record on the second amendment, that the worker was full of expletive, but tonight -- philadelphia, a city more than 430 miles away from cuyahoga community college where pres

you were at the polling place, garrett, at texas southern. what was it like there?just sounded ridiculous, actually. >> ridiculous is a good word for it, chris. we were wrapping up our coverage. it was 11:30 at night here and we heard there were still people who had been waiting to vote since the polls had closed more than 4.5 hours earlier. we went to the campus of texas southern and found maybe a hundred people still in line. some of them told me they had been waiting there five and a half, six hours to get in line. so many things had gone wrong at this polling place, whether it was machines that weren't working, staffers that hadn't shown up. and the people i spoke to were furious. take a listen. >> the whole time we've been out here, none of the machines have been functioning the way they said there was. and there was only two people signing people up. >> it made me think, this must be what voter suppression looks like. that's the only thought i could come up with. it's kind of sad that people would go to those kind of lengths. i don't know that that's the case,

joining me now is garrett haake. garrett, how are chicagoans reacting? >> well, the news isn't broadly public here in chicago. we've been moving this direction arguably fairly quickly over the last couple of days. the number of cases in illinois jumped up to 422 yesterday. that might not sound like a lot compared to new york but roughly doubled from the day before and the day before that. we've seeing an increase in testing and cases around the state. and we've already seen some localities take this step. i spent the morning in oak park, a small suburb outside of downtown chicago, only about 15,000 people. they put a stay in place order in place first thing this morning trying to get ahead of this because of medical workers and elderly workers who live there. then last night chicago's mayor announced she was going furlgtder than the state had gone in ordering schools closed an additional month until the end of april. so far the state had closed until the end of march. i think we're seeing the state catching up to what some of the low kaltsing with, chica