claire mccaskill, we are reaching horrific kinds of milestones in this country. >> yeah.pefully the third issue of help will get out of the senate tonight. i think it will, if not early tomorrow. you know, it is really interesting how this thing has developed. the first two that helped with a lot of she is, both came in from a bipartisan support in the house with nancy pelosi leading that effort, i think mcconnell felt he got jammed on some of that, that's why he's acting out today, yesterday, but you know, if you look at it, the republicans in the senate don't have much leverage because the president knows he is going to do whatever he tells them to do, so if the president says take this bill, he knows fall in line and do whatever he says, and mnuchin has been given his power to negotiate this and so now this is being worked out between schumer, pelosi, mnuchin, and mcconnell isn't that important because the president can take those folks for granted. i think schumer knows how important it is to get this done, all of the democrats know how important it is to get done, bu

my friend, claire mccaskill is back, also joining our conversation, eugene washington. also covered fredricka whitfield, his attacks on mika brzezinski, our colleague. what do you think gives with a time of pandemic not sochftenin any of his attacks, but in some ways, against some women, seeming to sharpen them. >> it does. look, i think this goes way back with president trump. i think in part, this is just who he is. he is just who he is. he's challenged, he obviouslya a thing about speaker pelosi. and part of it is that she's a woman. there's some part of calculation, although i think it's a miscalculation. look at the gender gap in his ratings, and if he gets krae s in november, it's because of women. but on those briefings, he always calls on yamiche alcindor from npr, or from pbs, to have the fight. he seeks out the fight. on some level, he must think it's either good television or good politics. i think he's wrong on the good politics part, but he -- so part of it is involuntary and part of it, i think, is deliberate. >> claire mccaskill? >> yeah, you know, let me

claire mccaskill, i'll start with you. was told today there was a lot of time and effort spent into preparing this new white house for the potential. every administration the last three back had prepared for various pandemics. we prepared for the bird flu. the obama administration prepared for ebola and h1n1. take us through in your eyes -- and we've talked about this before -- the scope of the failure. >> well, just look at the department of homeland security, nicolle. i've lost track of how many heads of homeland security we've had, how many are acting. have there been any confirmed in a long time. it seems that this president was focused on preening and being very political from day one. so planning for a pandemic did not factor into this. posturing on immigration was big and that's what he wanted his homeland security department to totally focus on, not on the actual threat to the homeland, whether it be a pandemic or domestic terrorism. so it is really unbelievable how incompetent not just the president has been here

mccaskill has released a bit on scotland's radical political history but to other radicals now in scottish politics be winning or losing alex to someone who is both a libra kind sir and then i simply m.p. economists and called nest george could have been. just kind of and follow the lead of this love for law school it's national be associated with a number of left of center left leaning groups through the last generation of scottish politics what do you think of the scathing macaskill thesis of the us or radical thread running through scottish politics over the last couple of centuries how alex and thanks for having me back and yes you remind me you and i have been through a few organizations together on the radical left candidate can recast is doing as a great service i don't know where he finds the time but he's churning out of these books and what he's doing he's recovered a whole a whole red line of history radical history it's called and go way back several 100 years a line that right down to the present day did can you just been elected to westminster from from radical islam then i h

. >> claire mccaskill of missouri joins me, a long-time senator and now an msnbc analyst. first of all, your reaction to this news. >> well, i have conflicting emotions. i'm proud and i'm sad. i'm proud that the democrat being party is being very grown up about looking at a path to the nomination and seeing very clearly when it's not there, which allows the party to make a decision between two candidates that have a very different vision. i think that's a good thing. i'm very sad that we've lost the last woman in the race. i think both amy klobuchar and elizabeth warren can be extremely proud of the race they both have run. i this i they have acquitted themselves very well on a national stage and i think our country while this year will not be the year, i do believe we're inching toward that moment when we say madam president. >> senator mccaskill, this idea that your matter has always prided itself on being this big tent and it's been the home for a long time of majority of african-american voters, young voters, latino voters, women, especially on tuesday suburban white w

and we're back with former senator claire mccaskill and eugene robinson.ght about elizabeth warren. saying this in the very same debate where he announces that his vice presidential nominee if he gets to choose one will definitely be a woman. let's listen to this. >> i've talked with senator warren about her proposal. this was the first opportunity we've had to make substantial change in what we couldn't get done in a republican administration. that's why we talked last -- two nights ago. and i supported her proposal. and it's a good proposal. it's a solid proposal. and she should get credit for having introduced it. >> claire mccaskill, i have talked with senator warren about her proposal. we didn't know he'd talked with senator warren about anything other than wishing her best wishes when she dropped out of the campaign. >> yeah. and i think him bringing up elizabeth warren was also preplanned because it is very obvious to people in the progressive side of the democratic party that elizabeth warren has not endorsed bernie sanders. i think there was an as

senator, now an nbc news and msnbc contributor clair mccaskill. that point? >> the math is pretty unforgiving at that point. i don't think anybody should rush to pound bernie to get out of the race because no matter what happens in the debate sunday night, next week is going to be, i think, just as brutal as last night was in terms of the margins. and, remember, the margins matter in terms of gaining delegates. he's about 160 delegates ahead now. probably will be another 50 or so ahead next week, and then the following week you have georgia. the math is what it is, and hopefully bernie and his followers will see the importance of unification sooner rather than later, but that's completely up to bernie. >> you know, it's very interesting, marc leibovich, looking at the results and a lot of pundits, a lot of political players, a lot of democrats shocked by how quickly joe biden's thundeurned this around it's very interesting that donald trump and his campaign team knew something last year. that is that they lot data that obviously showed them that t

senator claire mccaskill. claire, i wanted to ask you when we're looking at michigan here and your home state of missouri, we have seen some polling, but in a lot of ways, the expectations tonight are set in part because of what happened in 2016 when sanders was running against hillary clinton. is sanders versus biden a replay of sanders versus clinton in states like michigan and your home state of missouri? >> i don't think it is. i have been home for most of the last week, and been out talking to people, focus groups in grocery stores, focus groups among my kids' friends. and i really think bernie came within one point of hillary clinton in missouri in 2016 and won michigan. i think biden is going to have a big, big win in both states. and what i have figured out, i think, is a lot of the bernie vote in 2016, fair or unfair, was anti-hillary. it wasn't so much pro-bernie. so i think you're going to see, i will be surprised if biden doesn't win missouri by at least double digits. it may be as much as 15 or 20

. >> joined by former democratic senator claire mccaskill. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we see what happened last night. this is a crushing disappointment for the sanders campaign. is there that pressure for him to concede? are democratic voters saying it's time to wrap this up. >> i think the voters are saying that. this is a dominant performance. joe biden won every county in michigan. he won back a lot of white voters in states like mine, missouri he won every county in michigan, mississippi, and missouri, every county. >> sanders poured resources, won ther in 2016 and very close in missouri when you peer inside those numbers, what do the demographics tell us about the numbers? >> it says joe biden is really consolidating the democratic party right now. listen, i don't think anybody should tell bernie to quit running but the math is unforgivable and bernie is going to have to do a gut check at some point, maybe next week and say if the goal is to defeat donald trump, it's time to consolidate the democratic party. >> is there a

i want to good to claire mccaskill. claire, i'm going to say something that's going to be extraordinarily unpopular not only for people who are watching, but also in my own household. i think if the senate hasn't completed writing this bill, i think it's extraordinarily important for the health of this nation, and i just got a note, i've been worried about this all night and i just got a note from an ambassador who has the same concerns, it's extraordinarily important that donald trump's own companies are not exempted from this bill, from this relief because by exempting donald trump's companies, you give him the worst incentives to reopen this government -- or to reopen this country quickly. donald trump, as i said earlier, he makes decisions based on his bottom line. it's always been that way. by exempting donald trump and his businesses from getting relief, what you are doing is you're actually encouraging him to make rash decisions that are going to hurt america. and since we have a five-person panel to make sure th

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north of the border but what about the other scope of the early in the in the times that kerry mccaskill's writing about than the pully early period the time robert burns of course is the great radical people spoil it for the 1820 year rising there's another scotland the scotland who are firmly attached to the the the state of the united kingdom of firmly in charge there has to be said of scotland and even the present the 2nd party of scotland is no longer the labor. but the conservative party were foremost a quarter of the vote there is a another scholar who likes to equate content with the state of the later kingdom and its nature of its politics even with black certain barely examples hopelessly radical forces of the national movement reach out to that scotland of the beyond the pale well when the great turke radical poor human dermod. one of the founders of the s.n.p. and he used to talk about used to write about this these these 2 halves of the scottish psyche that we are we are radicals on the one hand when we act collectively have some more out ridge but as individuals we can be qui

. >> clar mccaskill, happens to be in the great state of missouri tonight, such is the nature of social distancing. claire, what i'd like to do with you is because we're taking part in this coverage during a national emergency, which is the fault of a pandemic can we just take a second and talk about the scope of the turn around in the campaign and the fortunes of joe biden? >> yeah, there are so many things that have contributed to this. certainly jim clyburn and what happened with the african-american vote in south carolina will be looked at as a pivotal moment. but tonight i was reminded how presidents are supposed to acts in a crisis. we have a president right now who lies and hits the microphone and lies again and then hits the twitter thing and lies again. and when you're in a crisis americans want to be reassured. and it's hard to get reassurance from a liar. joe biden tonight was calm, reassuring. i thought it was the best speech of his campaign, and that is because of the times we find ourselves in. and i think you're going to see him opening up bigger and bigger margins. and i

claire mccaskill says bernie is wrong. government health care would not work in face of pandemics.on to that? >> in fairness nothing will necessarily work in the face of the pandemic if the pandemic is so overwhelming but on other hand say "medicare for all" would be solution the pandemic that came here that is absurd. look at lombardi which is completely overwhelmed with resources that are inadequate to meet. we look basically ultimate single payer in china. again we see it was inadequate to meet. we have to make sure that our system is adequate to meet but the fact we have kind of a fluidity of resources that can move from here to there, that is not typical of government-run resources. that is typical after private market that responds to supply side demand if you will. elizabeth: we have hope. we have the first vaccine clinical trial today. nih funding it. kaiser permanente washington health research center seattle. novio its vaccine. a big push in canada and israel, identifying patients with china with 500 different antibodies in them. maybe that could lead to vaccines. would s

it feels -- are we going -- claire mccaskill means a joe biden?> it is a high african-american share of the democratic vote in that state. write a b there. >> all right. mississippi, we saw what happened in alabama. >> that's a big b. >> it is going to be a killing fields if you will when it comes the delegates there. then michigan. do you feel like there is an advantage pour either one? >> well. >> it is a sanders state from 2016. after a setback on super tuesday, bernie has no chase but to win states that he won in 2016. so you have got say -- >> i don't know. i am going to call it a toss up. >> well, i think biden has an excellent chance the win it. >> since it was a sanders state it becomes a must win for them. there you have it. do some math there and you lock at i would rather bed bien on this number. let's move over. march 17th, what i am calling junior tuesday. a bunch of states. sanders has to win arizona. can he? >> it is southwestern, latino, younger. that's the type of electorate that ought to favor him. >> what do you think. >> a toss

former senator claire mccaskill on morning joe with the following in terms of where this race is and where it is heading, saying i think it will quickly turn to how and when does bernie sanders unite the democratic party. i think the pressure is going to mount, especially in this time of crisis in this country. to uniterats are behind clearly the -- for the democrats to clearly unite behind the voters preference. for people who watch c-span, those of us who are immersed in the political world, we understand how those pieces fit together. most americans who don't really spend their time worrying about politics, they don't necessarily have a real firm grasp on that. if you look at the things bernie sanders supports, most of them are quite popular. -- peoplet to want to have higher minimum wage. a is when you wrap it up into thing called socialism and give it a name, then you can invoke negative association. we have no idea how that will play out in the general -- had no idea how that will play out in the general election. you can ask what people think of socialism and get an answer in

. >> let me play for you what your former colleague claire mccaskill said this morning about all of thisthis joke ron johnson is actually politicizing a committee that right now should have one focus, what is going on with the united states of america federal response to the coronavirus. people should be really angry about this. >> senator johnson, i want the give you a chance to response to that. people saying you're doing this at a time when the country is preoccupied with coronavirus. >> first of all, claire doesn't know what she's talking about. we've held a round table in my committee, we held a hearing last week with the official from dhs and hhs. i can walk and chew gum at the same time. i think you can tell from my earlier answer, i'm fully briefed. this administration has been accessible in terms of coronavirus. most of my time and effort has been about border issues, coronavirus, cybersecurity. this is an ongoing investigation. now is the time to issue a subpoena. it doesn't take much of my time. >> let me ask you this bluntly, then, if joe biden was not running for president,

thank you michael steele, claire mccaskill for spending time with us. most of all, thanks to you for letting us into your homes and watching the day's events with us. mtp daily with my colleague chuck todd starts right now. > >>> ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to thursday, it is "meet the press" daily. we're going to begin our tap dance when it comes to the briefing. i'm chuck todd, we'll continue the breaking news coverage of the coronavirus pandemic for this hour and then some. we're standing by for today's update from the white house coronavirus task force. the president is apparently going to also participate in this briefing. after he spoke to governors across the country about his new plan to contain the virus, which basically involves an attempt to split the united states into high risk and low risk areas. perhaps as a way to potentially get the people back to work. a number of questions are being raised about that strategy. it's not clear whether this is a serious proposal or it could be overtaken by events or this is actually the plan that somehow is going

john heilemann, claire mccaskill, eugene robinson will be our guests. we're back in 90 seconds.ur guests. we're back in 90 seconds i'm embarrassed to even say i felt like i was going to spend my whole adult life paying this off thanks to sofi, i can see the light at the end of the tunnel as of 12pm today, i am debt free ♪ we have no debt, we don't owe anybody anything, and it's fantastic ♪ and then i did robocalls into tennessee, into alabama, arkansas and north carolina. and so i feel that people got the message. >>> that was congressman jim clyburn of south carolina on msnbc last night reacting to joe biden's big win last night and the role he played not only in his home state, but across the south. biden swept the south, the projected winner in nine states with landslide victories in alabama, virginia, north carolina, arkansas, tennessee and oklahoma. he also won minnesota, the delegate rich state of texas and elizabeth warren's home state of massachusetts where she came in third behind bernie sanders. sanders won his home state of vermont as well as colorado and utah. he's a

. >> shannon: former senator claire mccaskill, a democrat, course, says this.s rich anywhere in the democratic party would accuse the democrats of a rigged process when they've actually canceled primary elections for trump. these are following the rules and will continue to do so. he appeared here on this netwo network, a lot of democrats say stay out of their business. your stirring things up that are not factual. >> unfortunately, the senator is not factual because, in fact, past incumbents routinely cancel primaries and caucuses. obama did it. where she is wrong, once again, is the fact that this is being rigged against bernie. it was 2016, with a dnc chair had to be removed the night before the convention. you had donna brazile out there saying the deck was stacked against bernie. go back and read her book, i know she is singing a different tune now, but she noted this, that it was as if the campaign was being run out of the hillary clinton headquarters and was against bernie. doesn't matter what the delegates lined up to be, the process was rigged against

. >> let me bring claire mccaskill into this conversation.nator sanders in vermont. both calls implying these are big wins. what is your reaction to that? >> well, first of all, it is remarkable that joe biden has done what he has done in virginia with one field office. one field office. i mean, that's crazy. i mean, nobody wins a state with one field afoffice. i think he went to virginia one time. so, clearly, something is happening organically here. and i think maybe the most damaging thing to bernie sanders before this evening is over, depending how it all plays out, is his narrative may get blown up. that he is driving turnout. that he is driving a new surge of voters. if, in fact, we have these lines all over, and if biden is winning these states, then it's going to get flipped. it would be that biden is driving turnout. and not bernie. and that may be more damaging than even his inability to gather enough delegates tonight to step into a, you know, an absolute ironclad front-runner status. >> it's a double-edged sword, though, isn't it

that was the focus of an investigation on the aging committee that i led with former senator claire mccaskill. i applaud the f.t.c. for taking action and we simply must give them more authority and the resources to pursue these kinds of anticompetitive cases that drive up the cost of prescription drugs. finally, i hope that we have the opportunity to debate other worthy proposals, including one that senator shaheen and i have introduced to lower the skyrocketing price of insulin. and i want to commend the administration for today releasing a new plan to drive down the cost of insulin for medicare beneficiaries. the fact is between 2012 and 2016, the average price of insulin nearly doubled. according to the health care cost institute, the price of an average 40-day supply of insulin rose from $344 in 2012 to $666 in 2016. there's no justification for that. insulin was isolated nearly a hundred years ago and while there are different varieties of insulin, it's still insulin. as cochairs of the senate diabetes caucus, senator shaheen and i have introduced legislation which creates a new pricing

claire mccaskill, for example, being a former senator from missouri is tonight with us from st.y is hosting with us from washington. and jose diaz belart, the host of noticias telemundo and nbc news saturday edition around these parts. friends, it's good to have you even electronically as part of our conversation. senator, you first. your reaction to a polls close calling on the state of florida tonight and the margin steve was just talking about for joe biden. >> well, i think the conversation is going to quickly turn to how and when does bernie sanders unite the democratic party. i predict that just like in michigan and mississippi and missouri, we're going to see every county in florida go for joe biden, every county in arizona go for joe biden, and every county in illinois go for joe biden. he's going to end up netting a big number of delegates after tonight. and so i think it is time -- and bernie is going to have plenty of delegates and power to influence the platform because we all want to come together. so i do think the pressure is going to mount, especially at this tim

ainsley: clair mccas mccaskill d it's time for him to drop out. we will see. griff: you really have arizona hawaii and wyoming. ainsley: this is normally about our top story. 12 minutes into the show until we got to the election. steve: times have changed. all different america. brian: all right. griff. thanks. steve: quarter after the hour on a busy wednesday. jillian is here. jillian: get back to the news on the coronavirus. other stories making headlines a suspect is charged with murder in the shooting death of a philadelphia police corporal. his son elliott opened fire as corporal james o'connor tried serving an arrest warrant on friday. he was a 23-year veteran of the force. he leaves behind a wife and two kids. one is a police officer. and the other is active duty air force member. the so-called doomsday mom charged in the disappearance of her two kids maintains her innocence as prosecutors reveal new evidence against her. lori vallow's attorney writing a statement vallow is entitled to all the privileges and rights until proven beyond a reasonable doubt

willie, claire mccaskill tweeted she has a daughter-in-law who is a nurse, and the hospital is setting up sewing stations throughout the building. >> i saw that. >> to make masks and gowns. >> isn't that i maamazing? >> nurses themselves becoming seamstresses before they can put on masks and treat patients. >>> to the larger question, john meacham joins us now. i'll appeal to the historian in you, which is all of you, so this will work well. the arsenal of democracy, which i mentioned before, 1940, fdr makes that speech. the automobile factories flip, gm and ford, very quickly, from making automobiles to making b-14 liberators, one an hour at one point in the ford factory. what kind of moment do we need here, and what kind of a president do we need here to inspire that, to get this country making masks? we don't have to make a bomber, just make a bunch of masks, gloves, gowns, and get them into these hospitals. >> yeah. i would say, my instinct is to say this is not a time for polit politics, but this is precisely a time for politics in its purist sense. the root of the word is people,

former senator claire mccaskill on morning joe with the following in terms of where this race is andre it is heading, saying i think it will quickly turn to how and when does bernie sanders unite the democratic party. i think the pressure is going to mount, especially in this time of crisis in this country. to uniterats are behind clearly the -- for the democrats to clearly unite behind the voters preference. for people who watch c-span, those of us who are immersed in the political world, we understand how those pieces fit together. most americans who don't really spend their time worrying about politics, they don't necessarily have a real firm grasp on that. if you look at the things bernie sanders supports, most of them are quite popular. -- peoplet to want to have higher minimum wage. a is when you wrap it up into thing called socialism and give it a name, then you can invoke negative association. we have no idea how that will play out in the general -- had no idea how that will play out in the general election. you can ask what people think of socialism and get an answer in a bo