lisa desjardins: time is getting sort, and the candidates still are many.s newour," i'm lisa desjardi in south carolina. judy: this morning i sat down in houston with former orw york city mike bloomberg as he was making his texas swing today. our conversation delved into his campaign y and his 12r record as mayor. we began with an urgent issue playing out as we speak. the u.s. government's response to the coronavirus outbreak. mayor michael bloomberg, thank you for talking with us. mike bloomberg: thank you for having me. the coronavir, rising concerns, spreading rapidly around the world. japan closing down schools. you have been critical of president trump, you said he buried his head in the sand, let go of the entire team that was supposed to be working on this. yesterday he named vice critics saynce, w does not have expertise in this my question to you, as somebody who knows something about it is, would you appoint a czar to oversee the coronavirus if you were president? mike bloomberg:ou i have one in place all the time to address issues like this. anyo

. >> woodruff: and we again turn to our lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor.iche, at the white house tell us how the president, the president around him are responding to these not guilty verdicts. and also to mitt romney being the one republican to vote against the president. >> the presid wt haseathered all sorts of scandal and the biggest challenge yet. was and he is very happy thousand to put that behind him. he is taking a victory lap saying he was fully vindicated. he tweeted out this video, just moments after the acquittal vote and it shows that president trump might remain in office well past the constitutional limits. it says trump 2024, trump 2100. trump forever. so other things to note, theid prt will be speaking at the white house at noon tomorrow. we expect that he is going to say that impeachment ios a hax, that this was a witch-hunt, the democrats were just after him.e but judyhave to note that the president can't say this is a partisan vote because senator that firstpeachment articlewith with democrats. so he became the first u.s. nator to vote

this is going to be a very big week. >> woodruff:o question, lisa desjardins, from all over the statesouth carolina. thank you, lisa. and for more on the state of the democratic primary, we turn to the analysis of shields and brooks.nd that is ated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks. to both of you, plashing, e st pick up whsa left off. the people she's talking to are saying this is a state that joe biden has to win. s how do y the democratic race? >> i see it the way lisa does. it's between tom steyer, bernie sanders and joe biden. shape.den appears to be in good he was helped by the endorsement of jim clyburn.he the dean of south carolina democrats. it's unlikelyattleground, judy. no democrat has carried south carolina in the last 11 presidential elections. no democrats thaare elected in the united states senate from south carolina, in this century. i mean, it's little bit like nipublicans coming down t to see you or massachusetts. in, clybu endorsing eloquently, biden said he would win by double digits. we'vestablished winning is coming in first. if

. >> woodruff: to give us a sense of wt's happening on e ground is our own lisa desjardins. s joining us from manchester, new hampshire. so lisa, i know you spent the day not only following the candidates but talking to voters. atat are they saying to you? how much does appened in iowa factor into their thinking? >> judy, in the lat few days here in new hampshire, i can tell you, i'm feeling corrective -- collective shrug to what happened in iowa. nature voters don'tm the care too muh. if you look at the polls, it centers iowa, bernie sanders and pete buttigieg, seem to haveew gone up by a foints here in new hampshire. when you talk to voters, they'ri more tun to what's happening in this state, and a lot is happening. by newshour's count, some 64 candidate events have happened in this state since the iowa caucus, a great deal of attention on them. you know, i went to a pete buttigieg event yesterday and talked to voters as they were coming out. th do seem to havmore enthusiasm than they had a month ago. at the same time, he's not drawing the large arenas yet that we're seeing

for thrbsnewshour", lisa desjardins in manchesr, new hampshire. i >> woodrufm here with lisa over the weekend. i've seen new hampshire voters take this vote so seriously. you talk to voters at virtually any candidate event, they'reov agonizin it. but i'm particularly struck by the new interest, if you will, in amy klobuchar. what do you think is going on there? >> i think there's been an opening, beuse ofis indecision, and it seems that she's benefiting from it. voters i talk to say they like she seems is authentic, they like she has a moderate message that's winnable and they like she's a woman. otars question if she hs a problem because she's a woman. but she's not just afeeling moderates. at a bernie sanders event, i spoke to a voter who was thinking about bernie sanders and is now on board with amy klobuchar. the reason why? he thnks she's geuine. >> woodruff: it goes back to the electability thing, can a woman get elected and if she can persuade them of that, it helpsc two of theandidates came out of iowa, pete buttigieg, bernie sandbos. today

lisa desjardins joins me now. hello, lisa-pi. >> woodruff: a lot to unpack here. the day started out, a briefing for u.s. senators and a briefing for reporters. you were on that call. it all added up to a rising sense of concern about what's going on. then you have essentially the centers for disease control saying it's not whether this virus is going to spread, it's when. so put it together. >> it's astounding. those are the exact words we heard from c.d.c. and h.h.s. officials. they are ready the say it's in the a question of if. it's a question of when the virus will hit here and how severely it will pact americans. what we heard from them today is a call saying that the pandemic has not arrived here, but a call for americans to pay attention and to start preparing as if a pandemic could arrive. we don't know where, which city. some cities may be harder hit than others. we don't know how long it would be. but this is a call for community preparation. we heard this, preparation advisoryies from the c.d.c. they're advising us to start consider, that we need the r

. >> woodruff: now to give us thea st, our own lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor. osee you in person, rather than reporting from the capitol. >> i know, amazing. >> woodruff: so much to ask you about, but lisa, let me start with you. hive us a sedgesz of the core of the argumentt the house managers were making today. they seem to be coming from several different directions. >> they did have a few different arguments they were making. let's look quickly at graphic, to make it very clear, the number one argument from house democrats is that theresident abused his power and obstructed congress. those are the charges agains the president. but they're going beyond that. they're also saying if he is unchecked, if he is not removed from the office, this president will do it again.ha they sayis a threat to national security and the 2020 election. they also are making this argument we heard from representative schiff in tha story that history will judge the senate. they are makling a histori argument as well. judy, however, some democrats are making another proposal tonight,

lisa desjardins has our report.s >>rdins: the 2020 race, and the leadg democrats, are moving south. >stand together as one, we will not only defeat trump, we will transform this country. >> desjardins: in a through the super tuesday state of north carolina today, senator bernie sanders of vermont aimed to springboard of his win in new hampshire. >> this is a campaign which uniquely is prepared to take on wall street, the insurance industry, the drug com, the fossil fuel industry, th military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, and the whole damn 1%. >>esjardins: shaking hands in neighboring south carolina was senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts. absentee voting is already underway there. warren lunched in charleston with hip hop artist benny starr. the map is quickly expanding. warren and sanders started the e day in tt, and sandersin plans to bexas, a big super tuesday state, tonight. but most 2020 hopefuls are farther west, in nevada. today, the next state ide drew an all-star lineup of former indiana mayor pete orbuttigieg, minnesota sen amy klobuchar, former v

bsfor the newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. > >> nawaz: for more politics coverage, head to the newshoursite, where you can watch judy woodruff at today's knight foundation media forum. she led a discussion on democracy in the age of the internet, featuring teddy ff, digital director of president obama's re-election campaign, oranrinat, the chief digital officer for the trump administration. plus, tune in tomorrow when judy sits down with michael bloomberg, right here on the newshour. >> nawaz: stay with us, coming othe newshour: a pick from our bookshelf-- one whistleblower's account of sexual harassment in silicon valley. plus collides with the f.b.i. in the new movie "seberg." it's often dismissed as "just a headache," bigraine attack is much more than that. a15% of americans aected, but as stephanie sy reports, the rastigma associated with me disease hameant fewer resources for desperat patients. series on tading edge" ofregular science, thnology and health. >> reporter: for jenn tingwald, playing "go fish" with her family could be a metaph for the past five years-- fishing for relie

plus, our lisa desjardins is in south carolina, where voters this weekend will have tef final word behe democrats' super tuesday primaries. >> i'm not going to say, "who can beat trp?" i'm going to say, "who can stand in and have a fair fight against trump?" and let the >> woodruff: and, riday. mark shields andav

judy woodruff and lisa desjardins are there and we'll lisa reports on how candidates are crisscrossing the state to court vots and sharpening their attacks against each other in the fal sprint. satoseror s:wnderor tom lisa: even by granite state standards, this one is a whopper. five democratic candites fighting for the top spots. ar r i'm you ready for some big >> i promise you, i can get this done in the first year. >> what nee ofdht rowig americ. lisa: with the oldest and youngest candidates in modern n stne fw.cin firor i hampshire a with your help i think we can win. it will make it easier for us to win in nevada and in south carolina and in california. >> i believe theranite state mapingd eorse m race is spurrinulg another politic phenomenon. for every new hampshire voter whose mind is made up, there are even more who sre note. >> do you know who you're going to vote for? >> no. >> three candidates at this int, i am undecided right now. >> i think this is just sort ofh last 48 hours kind of jitters. i'm not sure what's going to happen. lisa: polls out this weekend show 5 to 60% o

for the "pbs newshour", i amar lisa de n -- desjardins.udy: for a closer look at the results of that poll and what those numbers mean for the state of the 2020 democratac presidential i'm joined by domenico montanaro. he's the senior political editor at npr. t's look at these numbers. we will put the number of this npr mast poll up. bernie sanders on top 31%. michael bloomberg shooting into second place. what do yonusee with these ers? >> it is pretty remarkable. bloomberg having spent more ,an $300 milli over $330 million now we are hearing from add analytica. quite literally flood the airwaves. he has been given 15 points sinc december. he has leapfrogged right over joe bid, the former vice president, who had been the far and away leader for a long time. remember wn i would talk about how national polls, they don't really matter all that much, you have to look at thetes, it will move, that is what has happened. warren is down. pete buttigieg surprisingly at 8%, down five points after two very good showings. a lot on the line in south jud

udy: weur turn to lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor. , withol in now 51 against witnesses and 49 for, tell us about those swing senators we were watching and their decisn to swinggainst this. what went into their thinking? >> in the end, the two decisive volts for the president were those of senators lisa murkowski and lamar alexander and if you dig deeper into the statement, nick posted some good pamplets those. you'll see that they had very serious problems with the house process. lisa murkowski wrote -- the whouls house chose to sends articles of impeachment that are rushed and flawe it has also been colleen clear that some of my colagues intend to further politicize this congress and drive the supreme court into the fray while taxicabbing the chief justice. hat seems to be a reference of senator warren who asked a question of the two participants involved t that chief justice was apt the heart of. her question was if chief justice himself was compromise and would whether the confidence the supreme court was undermined by him presidin

congressional correspondent lisa desjardins begins our coverage.: >> desjardt the capitol, the impeachment jury is silent no more. >> so i may begin mr. president, thank you. >> desjardins: senators tooks tuocessing two weeks' of arguments, during which they were forbidden from speaking, into ten minutes of remarks each.en >> thee must now ask, do these charges meet the standard for impeachment? >>esjardins: for most the president. focus was sharp-- and a conclusion that his push to investigate a pola ical rival wagh crime. >> donald trump did it. he did it. he abused his power. there is no question about it. no question at all. >> desjardins: the president's actions here have all the is desjardins: democrats have waited days for honing thoughts in hallways and in private. and so have republicans. their focus? largely blasting house democrats' impeachment process. the house lent straight to impeachment as the first resort. >> there is no doubt the >> there is no doubt the house impeachment prisess was partan, politically driven and denied president trump some of his most basp rights of due

. >> woodruff: and now, lisa desjardins dives into bloomberg's complicated-- and at times controversialecord. >> desjardins: activt, billionaire, big city mayor, g d occasional subway rider, michael bloomber many things at once-- including, now, both disrupter and established politician. >> the momentum in this city is the legacy we're really leaving. >> desjardins: bloomberg began his 12 years as new york city mayor as a republican in january, 2002... >> so help me, god. thank you. >> desjardins: ...mere months shook the city's heart.s >> he is definitely what new york needs, as far as after september 11th, we need more business, me commerce >> desjardins: 18 years later, that image of a deliverer is one bloomberg's running on. >> rebuild america. he took charge, becoming a three-term mayor who brought a city back from the ashes. >> desjardins: by the end of the bloomberg era, more th half of new yorkers polled saithe city's economy was doing "good," an "quality of life" was better. there was wide approval of some of his initiatives, like banning smoking in restaurants, and adding mile

. >> nawaz: we get more insight no ofrom the field and oun lisa desjardins. she joins us from a bernie sanders campaign event in lisa, good to see you. since you're there with team there.ht let's sta he's had some of the state's largest rallies. you have been covering them.en we've eeing them become here. do you know so far if those a crowthe rallies translate into actual votes? >> such a good question, amna. is crowd is hoping this is a victory party tonight. the mood is very high among nders supporters, and even some non-sanders supporters right now, amna, expect he be the man to win tonight. that doesn't translate into votes necessarily. but one thing that does translate into votes is this idea ogetting out the vote we've seen his enormous rally crowds, amna, but the truth is much of those rally crwds, lking to them have, been people from out of state who arn sanders fans. that has translated into a large number of volunteers, and today volunteers have been knocking on doors, getting out the vote, and i'll tell you, i talked to many voters at the poll today

for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. and that brings us tohe analysises of mark shields and michael gersen. david brooks is away. hello to both of you. >> judy. judy: so we've had a primary, new hampshire. first in the nation contest the after iowa where there was some confusion about the results. mark, what do wehe make of >> judy, here's the bright side for the broke the turnout record after a disappointing turnout in yeah yea theeek before among democrats, there was a new turnout record. asso enthusiasm up. bernie sanders got half as man votes as he got four yearsgo i guess to hillary clinton. he beat clinton by 57,000 and beat buttigieg by 37,000. winning is coming in first. bernie coming out of a popular vote the- if not a delegate wi and he has to be considered the frontrunner. >> has to be considered theon unner. any doubt about that? >> no. i think the biggest results of new hampshire were results of exclusion. i thinkn that war is now not competing very effectively for the left lane the democratic party. sanders

and as lisa desjardins reports, there will be a new face on stage. >> desjardins: after mounting calls for michael bloomberg to have to debate his opponents directly... >> i think he should be on that debate stage, which eventually he will be, because i can't beat him on the airways, but i can .at him on the debate sta >> i'm going to get a chance to debate him on everything from redlining to stop-and-frisk to a whole range of other things. >> desjardins: ...2020 democrats will get their chance tomorrow night in las vegas, during the 9th democratic debate, which will be bloomberg's first. the former new york city mayor qualified for the debate after national pbs newshour/npr/ew marist poll out today. another headline in the poll: bernie sanders' has a hefty, double-digit lead. other democrats, including those with strong showings in iowa and new hampshire, fell behind. like former south be, indiana mayor pete buttigieg, who criticized sanders at a vewn hall in las. e politics that says the you don't agree with me 100% of the time you don't belong, that's clubbing people over the head t

our lisa desjardins is in south carolina, and reports on the push to win over voters there, before the stakes climb on super tuesday. >> desjardins: the democratic march toward a nominee is now ap multi-state nt, starting in south carolina, which votes saturday, and where billionaire businessman tom steyer today focused on rural votes. >> thistate is so nice. >> desjardins: a new monmouth university poll shows steyer virtually tied for second place with vermont senator bernie sanders in the state, but well behind former vice president joe biden. tatanshia palmer told me why it's steyer for her. >> i think that tom, with his economic that he could actually grow this community. >> desjardins: also storming the palmetto state today, former south bend, indiana mayor iete butt >> let's go joe! >> desjardins: but biden is seen as the leader here, stressinge his health csion as an extension of president obama's. >> i'm not suggeing we start i'm running to prot and to new. build on it. >> desjardins: last ght at a cnn town hall in charleston, senator elizabeth warren said she's ready to fightl

. >> lisa desjardins reporting hampshire.enders event in new we'll go back now to judy woodruff in new hampshire. >> thank you amna and for more alysis of e race here in new hampshire, i'm with our senr politics reporter dabush. dan, we're listening to lisa, we're hearing what the different mpaigns are saying. you've also been looking at these interews with interviews or voter survey done by theat asso press. we're trying to figure out why voters have done what they've done and what might hape pen in ture. what are you saying. in particular everybody is talking about the split between moderates, more moderate and liberal voters among the democrat. >> that's the big story here judy. we're seeing that divide play out and one thing that really jumps out we look at these survey results among voters overall here in new hampshire just 43% being very satisfied if bernie sanders won the nomination. just 39% said they would be very satisfied if pete buttigieg won. that is critical. i think it speaks to energy and turnout in aeneral election. so we're seeing in these numbs, democrats are still p

lisa desjardins begins with a look at how the focus is centerg on one candidate to beat. ♪ ♪ >> reportere democratic race for president is now operating essentially on bernie sanders' time. ( cheers and applause ) following his massive win iny, nevada saturhe vermont senator is setting the pace to beat. here he was in texas over the weekend, with a big crowd and big energy. >> in vada, we have just put together a multi-generational, multi-racial coalition, which is gonna not only win in nevada, it's going to sweep this country. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: sanders is ahead in national polls, just as the race is about to shift into supersonic mode. next up: 54 delegates will be da stake in sats primary in south carolina. but then-- just three days later-- 1,344 delegates will be up for grabs on super tuesday, when the primary race goes semi- national. 14 states vote that day, along with american samoa and democrats abroad. the result: each campaign hasti limited -- and their own plan to tackle bernie. for former vice president joe biden it's about one key state: south carolina, wh