mayor mike bloomberg now michael bloomberg like many grandparents is known for his generosity. $21.00 of those were people that i spent $100000000.00 to help elect all of the new democrats that came in and put nancy pelosi in charge and gave the congress the ability to control this president's eyeball i got them he works really hard to be hip with the kids even knows what a name is. with my screen i think the. big gay ice cream is the best many suspect he may harbor some racial prejudices. you know. and then there's bernie sanders the elderly socialist originally from brooklyn he's the kind of grandpa that everyone seems to be scared of can either coronavirus or bernie sanders be stopped they are bernie bolsheviks they are bernie brownshirts that's what they are and their revolution will result in death and misery another homewood to more or another whole accost or whatever we call the next great socialist atrocity totally transform society with firing squads dungeons torture and exile so he's been pretty clear that's what he supports many standards when i now many times bernie sander

in two of the three states that joe biden won, michael bloomberg would have produced what looks like a tie in colorado. and in utah, the bloomberg vote would have delivered the win clearly to joe biden. and then today, the day after mike bloomberg appeared to block joe biden and joe biden victories in those states, this happened.

dream, unprecedented comeback and rallying around joe biden like so many and to have somebody like michael bloomberg and those resources you alluded to, to use, is an incredible boost to the biden campaign. you look ahead to the states coming up next, places like florida, michael bloomberg would have probably been viable in florida and eaten into biden's support. this is something we're looking at getting into this delegates game further down the road. now, this is a numbers game in so many ways. >> it is. let's dig into the specifics how and where joe biden did so well and the specifics leading up to super tuesday. we have tom foreman here. walk us through there. >> you hit it, who showed up at the polls. if we looked at the states joe biden had won to date, it would have been just this, south carolina, and he's been running off and on for president for decades. now, he has 10 of them. he did it because there were voters who showed up, all stripes of people, huge support from african-american people, educated, college white voters, uneducated college white voters, all showed up for joe biden big in

coming down to the very last days that before votes were cast, they knew that the path for michael bloomberg was likely interesting to me that the president is finally -- not finally, we've been at this since 40 minutes ago, i'm told by my sources that the president in a way enjoys antagonizing michael bloomberg. that's obvious from his twitter feed. the president predicting it's not going to work if michael bloomberg throws money into joe biden's campaign. this take out somebody who would have been a thorn in trump's side and michael bloomberg gives his full backing to joe biden at this point. >> that's right. and president trump has never been particularly choi oy as wh sees as his rivals. they do see sanders as the easiest one to defeat come november. we see the president clearly having a little bit of fun with this. that does not mean that michael bloomberg is not going to spend a whole lot of money to defeat the president. >> i'm sure the biden team will be happy to accept that. >> if you get anything new, hop back to a camera, you know that we'll take you. >> let's talk about somebody who is stil

like it. especially black voters which we know are the base of the democratic party. i don't think that biden has to spin this that much. take michael bloomberg's money an not be able to defeat donald trump otherwise. bloomberg put together an incredible media campaign. he blanketed every air wave, every radio station in places where joe biden put maybe like $100,000 in. >> states he didn't set foot in. >> states he didn't go to, michael bloomberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars. take that apparatus and put that behind joe biden. joe biden can -- >> massachusetts, bloomberg with more offices than elizabeth warren and joe biden and joe biden took that state. >> people stood in line yesterday for hours to cast their vote for him. >> stand by. because the man of the hour, the day as i always say, the week, the month, the year, steve kornacki with an update for us on the delegate count. >> this is outstanding. you can take a look at maine. check mark, joe biden wins the state of maine. this makes ten, ten primaries now on super tuesday that have gone to joe biden. narrow margin, getting massachusetts, maine, eight others. sanders with colorad

the democratic nomination race and lots of questions about that. joe biden seems like the front runner now. michael bloomberg say, from my perspective, it looks like trump 's gonna walk at this time. i think it's a shame that bloomberg blocks out. i think he wasn't most charismatic in terms of candidates. he didn't have the numbers, but had he actually got there, he could have hit, hurt and wound trump up in a sense that much more of a successful businessman himself may have —— could have really hurt trump. eyes are rolling here! biden against sanders. it's like corbyn all over again. been there, done that. by then, you know, his time is too late to me. he is forgetful, i think trump hasa to me. he is forgetful, i think trump has a good line of attack on him. everyone is quite old in this race. but there is no one from the democrat side who can electrify this rates. we have characters like the chairman of starbucks running, some really great characters. it's been quite a bland field. i find it astonishing that somebody would be backing bluebird. —— bloomberg. his response, one of his responses to being quest

candidates like michael bloomberg and, frankly, candidates like joe biden didn't register in the samedidates like bernie sanders or elizabeth warren did. so whe have to be mindful that from now until july it's a ground game. we have to make sure we're not taking for granted that black voters are want just practical we're also looking for someone who's capable of not just managing the status quo but bringing new ideas and energy not only the party but this country that can change conditions for black people. that's something we have to keep front and center. >> joy, you know, on elizabeth warren, when you -- when you led that forum of black women leaders last year, elizabeth warren killed it. it was just a superb performance. politics is a rich or get richer business. not in terms of money but if you're doing well in the polls, people say you're viable and then they are more open to you. you made this point. black voters are the most progress mattick group in the elector rat. if warren looked stronger, she could be stronger among african-american voters. her problem is she fell back an

she had tremendous lack of talent, she was a good debater, she destroyed michael bloomberg very quickly likewas easy. people don't like her, very mean person. >> what is troubling is donald trump just said elizabeth warren wasn't likable enough and lacks talent. women all across the workplace and you can agree with me, face that discrimination all the time. for the president of the united states to fuel the sexism is deeply troubling. >> reporter: joining us, the chair of the program and business and finance in manhattan, welcome to you both. do you think it is sexism that led to senator warren being done running for president? >> sexism plays a role in everything but her main issue was strategy over sexism. senator warren is one of the most brilliant people that ran in this campaign but she struggled between trying to figure out if she was a progressive or compassionate capitalist. she went back and forth trying to please both tribes and it didn't work. senator sanders pulled her too far to the left and she found out people are more moderate than they appear to be on twitter. that was one o

fourth candidate she has attacked direct directly, sanders, pete buttigieg, joe biden, michael bloomberg, it looks likend going after whoever is in the headlines at any given moment. >> the $400 million elephant in the room is michael bloomberg. he has not been on a ballot as of yet. super tuesday for him is going to be his first test. does he have any reason to be optimistic in any of these super tuesday states when you look at some of the bigger ones, california, texas, florida, new york, doesn't seem to be doing very well on those. >> until about last week or so, polling was showing him, the scarce polling that was out was showing him ahead in states like alabama, arkansas, even in colorado in places. that polling, we haven't seen much updated from that. joe biden will probably get a boost from his south carolina win. it's possible bloomberg has been advertising in california, and texas for weeks now, months, spending gobs of money. maybe we'll have an effect that we don't know about at this point. >> you got to wonder if the biden campaign is back channelling to the bloomberg campaign. the momentum

buy the election," tonight, we might have gotten our answer. >> michael bloomberg is having a terrible night. >> bloomberg is sinking like rock. >> mike bloomberg who is fair to say not having the night he thought he paid for. >> campaign officials tell my colleague josh leaderman that bloomberg will now reassess the campaign, and once the data comes in -- >> trevor: that's right, folks, looks like, yet again, bloomberg has come up short. wow! ( laughter ) actually, i feel bad for this guy, man. think about it. he came into this race with $60 billion and now he has, what, $59.5 billion? i would not want to be him right now. ( laughter ) before we go to an ad break, let's quickly check in with ronny chieng and the vote caster and see if he can give us anything. ronny, please tell me you're up and running. >> yes, i'm in now and let's find out who won california. mmm... oh, damn. sorry. okay, we just got to wait for this ad to play. >> trevor: ads? why didn't you just pay for the premium version? >> because some of us don't have $12.99. sorry, forbes. it's an ad. it's over before you know it. just press "skip" and -- oh, d

i think he is looking now like he is the front runner and possibly the nominee. vonnie: how much will michael bloombergorsement mean to the joe biden campaign? that locked up now given money will likely be diverted from what was bloomberg's campaign to joe biden? >> the endorsement that probably matters is that when he put on the back of the check. the money that he said he would spend on the democratic nominee is probably more important than saying he likes joe biden, especially given how poorly he did on super tuesday in the states where he was spending the most money. as things start to shake and super tuesday is an important event when we talk about you will get the nomination, are we starting to get a better sense of the timeline? do we know who is going to go up against president trump? >> i think we will see in the next couple big states that primaryhere will be a basically every week in a big state, it will be clear very soon if joe biden can sustain this momentum. i think that the party, establishment, decided he was their best bet. a lot of moderate voters who were late deciders decided to go

michael bloomberg dropped out. like other candidates, he's endorsing biden. >>> thanks, tracie potts. >>> coming up for you here on the "today" show, joe biden sits down with savannah guthrie, and now that it's essential just him and bernie sanders fighting for the democratic party. that's at 7:00 a.m. right after "today in the bay." >>> some bay area races are still too close to call. we have full election coverage in the list on our website, nbcbayarea.com. there we're updating the numbers as soon as the votes are counted. >>> one of the largest cities on the peninsula could lose its only hospital in a matter of days. >> bob redell is live for us outside daly city. what is the county trying to to do to keep the doors open? >> reporter: they're supposed to hold an emergency pleat tomorrow about the possibility of buys seton medical center here behind me here, or at least trying to secure a buyer for the bankrupt owners. last night the board did hold a special session to hear from the community and the bankruptcy attorn

. >> i will vote for michael bloomberg because i don't like bernie sanders and i feel he is the mostualified candidate to defeat him. >> i'm voting for bernie because he is the leading candidate on climate change and medicare for all. >> i know how socialistic sanders's views are, between him and trump i'm voting trump. >> reporter: 3.4 million registered voters in colorado of which 1.2 million have been returned so they will get 1 million plus. officials said could take days to find out how they will be allocated but at least one thing is for sure. elicited 50% you won't get any. >> with endorsements from amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg and beto o'rourke, joe biden is keeping his south carolina winning streak alive. rob: should bernie sanders be worried? let's ask chuck. it seems like right now pretty clear the dnc is working against your campaign and the campaign of bernie sanders. >> if they can read a poll for two seconds they probably got the same polling i've been running for 6 months to gauge where we should be, who is at we have been running a lot towards the top in all those p

and then we have like bloomberg. -- michael bloomberg.ent so much money that he actually spent $100 for every vote he got. he is out of the race. who will benefit from the loss of this billionaire? reporter: i think alsoreporter: biden. he will have, he said he will, and member this, have spent -- remember this, have spent $1 billion whoever will be the candidate against donald trump he will follow-up on this. that is what everybody says and thinks. there is legal work to do, to form a super pack, but that he can get a lot of money into the democratic party. he will stand against donald trump but you are right. the man spent $500 million more than that. half $1 billion in his campaign just compared to this. the biden campaign spent $15 million. bloomberg -- brent: thank you. turning to the coronavirus, china is reporting another drop of cases and the death toll in the country where the outbreak began is now nearing 3000. italy's death toll is now around 100 with a steep jump of 28 people dying in the last 24 hours. the italian government

top by 73 votes at the moment, joe biden right behind him, elizabeth warren at 14%, michael bloomberg at 12%. it looks likeat the moment, wolf, but we've got a ways to go. >> david challen, it's clearly a good night for biden, but for sanders and bloomberg, they'll pick up some delegates as well. >> and in some places, elizabeth warren, too. let's look at some states you were just looking at here. i'm going to look at texas in a moment and just remember the magic number is 15%. you need to win 15% of the vote statewide to get some statewide delegates, and you have to remember that 60% of the delegates are allocated based on districts. state senate districts, you need 15% there to get viability and collect delegates. so 228 delegates at stake in texas, and take a look. bernie sanders, well above that 15%. he's at 28.8%. joe biden right now, only 24% of the vote. we still have a lot of vote to come in. he's at $22.3. clearly above 19%. michael bloomberg, at 18.5%. by the way, texas has a lot of delegates to distribute. look how close warren is. she's at 14.2% right now. she could eventually be at the 15% mar

michael bloomberg is here. >> so seems like a lot of white folks think standing next to a cool blackgives them legitimacy but is it effective? let's ask ask my good friend roy wood, jr. >> i know why you brought me. >> we're from your hometown in south carolina. >> i'm from alabama. >> so roy and i happily went to charleston to see if the voters noticed the democrats' brilliant strategy. have you seen the ads. >> looks like obama is' running again. >> all of them have these commercials now with them and obama saying stuff about them. >> it's just the candidate with, like, african-americans. >> your stance cannot be what obama did eight years ago. we want someone who's going to be authentic. >> you want a candidate above all things who cares about you. >> yes. >> and has a good picture with, like, barack obama. >> no. >> you think black people like the white people that have got a white picture with obama. >> i never said that. >> that's what you said. >> you can't ride on obama's coat tail. that's not how we vote. >> which candidate has the best o.p.v.? >> break that down. >> obama p

the things that have broken his way ahead of subbanner tuesday or whether our candidates like michael bloomberg up being a spoiler in the race. >> kathleen, if we look at the voting process, do you think that you will get real unity thin the democrats if they coalesce around biden? do you think there is a risk of splintering or real cohesion here? >> well, i think there is an opportunity for democrats to have some real cohesion behind more centrist i don't and bernie sanders. that being said, there is this persistent schism in the party that dates back to 2016 when we saw the division between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. there is a sense that sanders might not be that well equipped to take on trump. the counter to that is that sanders is someone that energizes the progressive base. so i think the thinking there is that programs he could be someone, if it becomes a base election, that would bring out the base more effectively. that being said, many in the establishment democratic party leave a more sent rest candidate like joe biden would be in a better candidate to take on trump. what we

looks like michael bloomberg is going to be over 15% and pick up some delegates there with the huge investment he made there. hoping to do better. minnesota, another big surprise tonight as joe biden comes on strong just one day after amy klobuchar dropped out of the race. home senator and put her support behind joe biden. seems to be making a difference there in minnesota. >> let's show you where biden has won. he's won in three, four, five, six states. >> then they took the map away. here are the states that sanders has won. it's not about the states you win, it's the delegates you collect. here's an overview. 1300 at stake tonight. that's about 1/3 of what's needed to clinch the nomination and joe biden continues to be the story. looking ahead, we will get a very important and consequential poll close in less than an hour. california. that's where the delegates are, 415 up for grabs tonight. bernie sanders very much hoping that that is going to be a gold rush for him in terms of delegates. >> andrea mitchell, what are you watching as we look towards california next hour? >> looking towards

bloomberg and i have a few. my problem with this is he in doing an impression of trump doesn't feel like michael bloomberg's authenticsonality. especially if you spend any time in bloomberg new york. it's not who he is. when he's taking out billboards and sending mean tweets and creating memes, that is someone else trying to out trumped trunk. it did not work for the republicans in 2016. >> i think he is out trumping trunk. i think he speaking to people's brain. sanders speaks to guts. i would say biden speaks to people hearts. you can't beat trump at trump's game. you have to play your own game. so i think that's most likely. kennedy: and the authenticity is so vitally important with the democratic party. i would be shocked, joe biden is who he is he's an established democrat has brain is turned oatmeal, but that's who he is. he doesn't really run from that. i don't think this whole tough guy works for mike. >> he is also trying to sell himself as a manager. management is not sexy to the electorate. you're not gonna call yourself because you want the trains run on time. so humans in open office plan to the white hou

what's this decision like for michael bloomberg?is is where we see the ego to intellect ratio. all these candidates have big egos but a lot of them are really smart, too. i think you're going to see, i don't know, but my guess is mayor bloomberg didn't get to be worth $60 billion by having more ego than brains. i'm sure he's got healthy self-esteem but you look at the numbers. he's made his living on metrics and looking at numbers. there's not a path for him any longer. and he has already done amazing -- i live in virginia now. virginia, one of the reasons virginia is blue is because of mike bloomberg. he went in there, spent money, raised the gun issue which was the home of the nra. he's done a ton of good already. he's likely able to do a ton of good without being a candidate. and he won't have the fun of being a pinata at the debates any longer but he could still make history. that would be my pitch to you mayor. >> in the democratic party, if he invested in, for example, getting senators elected, invested in helping our nominee.

but let me tell you, bernie sanders has a closer relationship with barack obama than michael bloomberg did. it looks likeny candidate who is running, any nice thing that barack obama ever said about them. but i wish barack obama said nice things about me. i mean, just every candidate has done this. i think this is just a sign of respect for president obama that bernie sanders understands his extraordinary contributions and wants to make sure people know that he wants to build on the legacy. >> he did. bernie sanders did call for a progressive opponent to barack obama to primary him in 2012. i am curious as to what advantage you think that senator sanders gets out of running that ad? why does the campaign want to send that message right now? >> the message is that senator sanders and many of us who are supporting him are extraordinarily proud of president obama. we believe, actually, he was a transformational figure. he was the progressive. he ran against the war. he ran in a way as an insurgent. he wasn't expected to win. and we believe that senator sanders is actually carrying on the progressive movemen

liking for revolution. >> they want results. they are looking for results. >> welcome back to credit card "kasie d.c." michael bloomberglose. and in 48 hours, whether half a billion dollar bet pays off. after sitting out the first four election, super tuesday is his first real test. but that also means that joe biden and bernie sanders have gained momentum and won some actual delegates. met up with bloomberg in houston to talk about his ascendant campaign. we started by talking about the big headline. the president's handling of coronavirus. >> whlet's start with the news today. coronavirus spreading rapidly. do you trust and should americans trust president trump to deal with this crisis? >> no, he has not prepared for a crisis like this. quite the contrary. he fired the pandemic specialist two years ago. he's defunded or unfunded or reduced the funding for centers for disease control. he's had 1600 scientists leave the government in the first two years of his office. you don't know exactly what's going to happen. but you have to have trained people who have practiced working together in a and establish trust in each

when you are a newcomer to this kind of thing, this big political scene and you have so many like michael bloomberg come in with hundreds of millions of dollars, dumping it in, it's gotta be tough but listen with that quite a few characters to get through to see who ultimately donald trump will run against. we were never too concerned with people to judge but we wish him well. >> i think that's right. i think a lot of people look at him and don't agree with what he says but i think he's conducted himself in a productive way. >> i think the only problem he had from our campaign perspective is that there was nothing he was running on except beating donald trump which so many people are. steve: the other big news, sleepy joe finally woke up. >> good for joe for winning one. i feel sorry for joe biden, at least he's got south carolina, i will be curious to see what happens from here on out. obviously it has not been what anyone expected. he was at top of all the polls, and you see that he's really fallen flat. we'll see what happens on super tuesday because i think that will tell us a lot more. >> do y

klobuchar will win on super tuesday but she performed worse than buttigieg which is like really bad. michael bloomberga half a billion dollar spoiler. michael bloomberg doesn't want hasn't won a single state on super tuesday. you can give me the money. i have some student loans to pay. >> one thing on the bloomberg, yes he had beautiful ads as paul said. speaking with people, the ads are great because you give your message with no pushback, and now he's getting some pushback. we're hearing a lot in the press how he's having difficulty with minority voters, but he's having difficulty communicating to rural voters, and if you cannot connect to rural governors you are in serious trouble. >> time for us to move on to our next topic, which is the avon lady. our next topic is the general election. i think you would all agree that president trump's strategy has largely largely been built around solidifying his political base rather than appealing to independents or suburban swing voters. alice can the president win with the base only strategy? >> he certainly can, depending on who he is going against. let's

let me ask you 1st off mike bloomberg hasn't been on the ballot in the previous 4 states his 1st debut is going to be on super tuesday tomorrow why do you like him. michael bloomberg because he supports my core values . in the insurance industry he wants to build on what created to have the affordable care act and instead of dismantling and trying to do medicare for all or health care for all we can build on that one aspect of what michael bloomberg stands for so so you want to keep the current private insurance system i should point out that you are an insurance broker yourself let me ask you a tougher question has had to apologize for the stop and frisk policy in new york where about 5000000 people were stopped. he's been very clear about apologizing 'd and saying he made a mistake does that that bothered a lot of african-americans for you. to yourself and other african-americans that you know is that a problem but no it isn't because once a man makes amends that much more is he department to reconcile and so the reconciliation reconciliation aspect of it is what's important to me because now that he's had it out there he's apologized i think he'll do

michael bloomberg mailers that have been arriving. >> might have seen a michael bloomberg ad in the commercial break. >> very likely.ng has not indicated that he is in terms of posing a risk to the front-runner, bernie sanders. he's not there yet. he is hovering around the 15% threshold to get delegates in california. statewide you have to hid 15% of the total vote. and then of course it's the 53 congressional districts, mini races in each one of those districts. right now, sanders appears to be the one who will take the mother lode of delegates from california. and then the question is will moderates consolidate enough around joe biden, perhaps a michael bloomberg, to give them that boost over the 15%. >> sanders is focused so much on minority, latino voters, in particular, especially here in los angeles, where young latino voters are very enthusiastic, it seems, for bernie sanders. the older latino voters maybe not so much. what are you hearing and seeing? what do you expect? >> i'm seeing -- i live on the east side of los angeles. >> heavily latino population out there? >> exactly. i'm seeing the official uniform

like getting free money. go to rakuten.com and sign up today for a $10 bonus. >>> joe biden's facing a new political reality this hour with michael bloomberg the race and throwing his support behind joe biden. how will joe biden use this going into the next contest? just a few of the headlines from the papers this morning there. i'm joined now by senator chris coons of delaware. he's a surrogate for biden. also happens to hold the senate seat once occupied by the former vice president. i also found out that david ploufe on your '88 campaign. it was his first campaign, he said, you're wife's campaign? >> david ploufe worked on a u.s. senate race in delaware. my wife worked on that same race. that's how they first met. we're from the same area of delaware, a very small town, a rural community. i agree with everything david just said on your show. he's a great analyst. and last night was an amazing night for joe biden and the american people. i'm convinced joe is the right candidate. he's got the heart and the character, the values and the experience to actually deliver on the promises that donald trump made to the middle class but hasn't car

more on breaking news from the fed, we are joined by michael mckee, bloomberg international economics and policy correspondent. what do something like that mean, that they will enhance the central bank swap lines? michael: they have been doing swap line extensions weekly. now they are going to have operations every day for the five major central banks who have permanent swap lines with the fed, which includes the bank of japan, the bank, the european central bank, and the swiss national bank, and also the bank of canada. that is basically it, but there is suggesting that there is very strong demand for dollars out there. we have seen a little but of movements in the market that may asked -- that may suggest some pressure easing, but it is hard to say. alix: with the dollar index still at 102, it doesn't feel like we are off the top in a substantial way. what do we have to see for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief? michael: i need to -- i think you need to see it go back down for several days, maybe to the mid-90's level it was at before. i'm not sure where it settles out because we go beyond the demand for dollars to the outlook