taylor: jim reid will be sticking with us.g up, a conversation with leslie vinjamuri from chatham house about fiscal stimulus and what it means for the trump administration. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: i am taylor riggs in new york with francine lacqua in london. the head of the u.s. senate cleared the second page or bill responding to the pandemic. he said the body would stay in session to work on the $1.3 trillion plan. learning us now is leslie vinjamuri. are you surprised by the amount and rate at which congress is able to get this done for the beginning of the stimulus package? leslie: i think right now, there is very little surprise left amongst those of us watching because the global pandemic is so extraordinary so extraordinary measures are what we would expect, even with the government that has been so partisan and divided, and not the government we would expect to be talking about cash -- cash payments to the tune of $5 billion. it is all a little surprising but given the global context it seems almost inevitable. t

this is jim reid. there are two main ways of catching coronavirus., or coughs and the virus is spread in droplets and a single cough can produce 3,000 droplets. you breathe it in and become infected. this is why governments across the world are telling us to stay two metres away from each other to stop the spread. the second way is through something scientists call fomite transmission, those virus particles land on a hard surface and are spread when an infectious person touches it. because a person is shedding the virus from their nose and throat and they're coughing it out into the air, that means that anything they touch will be covered in this virus. if you come along later and touch the same surface, you could pick up from that surface a collection of these virus particles, if there are enough of them there, and you can transfer them to your nose and eyes, you could infect yourself. it is still early days but a team in the united states has run tests on corona already. they found the virus that causes covid—i9 can remain active on some surfaces.

this is jim reid. there are two main ways of catching coronavirus.particles in the air, someone breathes out or coughs and the virus is spread in droplets and a single cough can produce 3,000 droplets. you breathe it in and become infected. this is why governments across the world are telling us to stay two metres away from each other to stop the spread. the second way is through something scientists call fomite transmission, those virus particles land on a hard surface and are spread when an infectious person touches it. because a person is shedding the virus from their nose and throat and they're coughing it out into the air, that means that anything they touch will be covered in this virus. if you come along later and touch the same surface, you could pick up from that surface a collection of these virus particles, if there are enough of them there, and you can transfer them to your nose and eyes, you could infect yourself. it is still early days but a team in the united states has run tests on corona already. they found the virus that causes covi

jim reid, bbc news.n after being unable to buy food at the end of her shift, and asked people to remember those who are caring for the sick. i'm a critical care nurse, i have just finished 48 hours of work and wa nted just finished 48 hours of work and wanted to get stuff and for the next 48 hours. there is no fruit, there are no vegetables. i don't know how iam are no vegetables. i don't know how i am supposed to stay healthy. and there are those people who are just stripping the shelves of basic with many nhs workers dealing with an unprecedented workload, the strain is beginning to show. the health secretary matt hancock this morning urged people to stop panic buying. just stop it, please! i hope the video itself shows people the consequences of being irresponsible with what you buy. there is a perfectly adequate food supply. it is not a problem and it will not be a problem. that is not the only concern. many front line staff say they are not getting the protective equipment they need to stay safe. we

this is jim reid. there are two main ways of catching coronavirus.ets. you breathe it in and become infected. this is why governments across the world are telling us to stay two metres away from each other to stop the spread. the second way is through something scientists call fomite transmission, those virus particles land on a hard surface and are spread when an infectious person touches it. because a person is shedding the virus from their nose and throat and they‘ re coughing it out into the air, that means anything they touch will be covered in this virus. if you come along later and touch the same surface you could pick up from that surface a collection of these virus particles, if there are enough of them, and you can transfer them to your nose and eyes and you could infect yourself. it is still early days but a team in the united states has run tests on corona already. they found the virus that causes covid—19 can remain active on some surfaces. 0n copper the result showed traces for up to four hours. 0n cardboard up to 2a—hours. 0n plastic a

jim clyburn, congressman from south carolina. susan rice, formerly barack obama's chief of staff. harry reidrry reid called chief of staff and told him i'm sorry it's nothing personal, it's like the godfather. paul: it's strictly business. >> it's strictly business and they finally realized that bernie sanders is an outlier. he's not really a democrat and that the whole system of the democratic party, lawyers, urban machines, patronage and so far was going to be at risk if bernie became the nominee and so they just swept over to joe biden who is really a proxy for the democratic party. >> i think the democrats looked at what happened to republicans four years ago, paul, where an outside populist came in and they decided we don't want this to happen to our party and avowed socialist to come face of our party, we will not let that happened and we are also done indulging progressives out there. that's not the way we will win in 2020. we will not win with promising free stuff and medicare for all, we will win back to try to get back swing voters in industrial midwest, suburban moms and joe biden

carolina when biden got that big jim clyburn endorsement that helped catapult him to a huge win there and then he got the amy klobuchar endorsement, pete buttigieg, harry reidnamic, and that really comes from joe biden does that inside work, inside the democratic party to try to lead it and tell the other players within it that he's going to be somebody they can count on. and as democrats who are primarily the ones who vote in democratic primaries, looked at the people they trusted that signal ended up being really important to them. so the argument i make in this piece is if bernie sanders wants to become the leader of the democratic party he's got to try harder to lead the democratic party, not just take it over. >> i want to listen to more of bernie sanders talking about him taking on not just the corporate establishment but the political establishment. let's listen to this. >> you're talking to a candidate uniquely who's taken on the entire corporate establishment. you're talking to a candidate who's taking on the political establishment. mr. bloomberg comes on board biden. other candidates. and he will solidify his support with the political leadership

we saw harry reid in nevada, harry reid one of the few people that was actually able to make a difference in a state. jimher. obviously his endorsement in south carolina made all the difference in the world. not only in south carolina, but also it did propel joe biden to an extraordinary super tuesday. willie, this is a campaign that just four days ago was out of money, pundits said it was out of time, he had a scattered organization, if any organization at all. no organization, no hope, and yet we wake up this morning and if you dig through the numbers this guy has the best chance of any democrat since barack obama left washington, d.c. four years ago, has the best chance of reassembling the obama coalition. the numbers in northern virginia in the suburbs staggering. the number of independents and former republicans coming over along with motivated democrats, going out to vote just in one populous county alone in northern virginia exceeded by 100,000 the number of people who voted in the democratic primary four years ago. black voters coming out in record numbers for supporting joe biden, again, in a wa