and as the experts will tell you, that was far too late. . >> jim messina, the contrast we are seeing today between two presidents and the president right now is in the oval office with coronavirus recovered victims, people who have suffered. so this can certainly -- certainly show the empathetic side they're trying to project now. but after a performance of more than two hours last night when he was constantly talking about himself, and it really was a campaign event more than it was a white house briefing. >> yeah, you know, in a campaign you realize there are moments that really define a campaign. andrea, my sense is you're going to see these 24 hours really define this. you had the clown show last night of donald trump who couldn't have been more egomaniacal, couldn't have spent more time worrying about himself and less about the american people. and then to ben rhodes' point, you have the former president of the united states who came out and reminded americans what a contrast this was, what a real leader looks like and somebody who can bring this togethcountr together. donald tr

jim messina, always great to have you.>> my pleasure. >> dana: hundreds of workers at food processing companies are getting coronavirus. this has forced for plants to shut down and how is starting to affect supply. supply chains are safe but empty grocery store shelves have a lot of people worried. steve harrigan is here with mo more. >> the administration has been offering repeated assurances that there is no danger with the food supply including the secretary of agriculture just a short time ago who said there's no concern for panic. >> the food supply is good. there's plenty of food and we hope to get it to consumers just as they always have. i think if we buy responsibly and don't panic everything will be fine. >> despite that there is a lot of problems with meat processo processors, inside the u.s. at least four major companies have had to shut down their plants. one plant in south dakota is responsible for about 5% of the processed pork in this nation. they are a real hot spot with coronavirus. a lot of these food pr

and as jim messina just pointed out, this is the worst-case scenario for president trump. but president trump has a megaphone and platform here with the daily briefings, which no matter how badly the administration is being criticized, as much as they've been criticized for the way they led into this pandemic and did not properly heed the intelligence and all of the other calls, peter, he's still gaining a lot of traction and shutting out -- assumedly shutting out joe biden and his campaign efforts since super tuesday. >> i think that's right. look, he dominates the stage right now. we're in a national crisis and people during a national crisis tend to what to see their president and hear what they're saying and that does make it harder for a challenger at that point to get traction. particularly at a moment when a challenger can't get out on the road, can't sponsor campaign rallies, can't build the kind of momentum. i don't know how much it matters in longer run. that may just be a short-term thing by fall. we may see the resumption of a more normal kind of politics. it d

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i want to bring in jim messina. he was deputy chief of staff under president obama.s also campaign manager of his campaign. your reaction to the timing and the tone of both of these endorsements. how big is this? >> it's a really big contrast, right? when you see president trump with his erratic leadership and his daily clown show press conferences to have real, upstanding leaders like barack obama and elizabeth warren talk about joe biden in personal terms, the kind of leader he would be. that contrast is really important right now and it's a contrast that the biden campaign is going to bank ongoing forward. >> then do they need to do it in a bigger way? what did you just call it, the president's daily clown show, his press briefing. should joe biden be counter programming that? should he be creating his own shadow government, shadow cabinet, shadow s.w.a.t. team and getting up there at a podium saying here is the crisis here in, here's what we need to do to address this? >> well, he's done some of that, right, he's released the most comprehensive plan about what to