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michael steele, always a pleasure. thank you, my friend for coming on. >>> and coming up for us, fighting a pandemic in rural america when we come back. >>> another look tonight at las vegas, having just been out there, it is incredible to see. the city shut down. a financial disaster for a town built entirely around one industry, hospitality. tens of thousands of people out of work just like that. then there are the vast stretches of our country that are not in the shadow of a big city and the profound worries right about now about whether america's community hospitals are ready for what we know is coming when this virus settles in. our report on this tonight from nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. >> reporter: far from the densely populated cities, rural america may seem better protected from the coronavirus. but health officials say it is a matter of time before it spreads everywhere, and people here could be especially vulnerable. you are dealing with a demographic that could be the hardest hit by this virus, a

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adrienne elrod, john heilemann and of course michael steele -- and mike memoli. >> jim clyburn joins us now. you are the man of the hour, the king maker. there's no underestimating, understating the difference your very emotional, personal endorsement made. if not for south carolina, we would not be here. joe biden would not be here. >> well, thank you so much for that andrea. were it not for the community that i represent, i would not have made that kind of an endorsement speech. i was perfectly willing to say who i was going to vote for. i issued a press release. until i attended a rural church and had an elderly lady becken me. she said, you lean down. i need to ask you something. she asked me, who was i voting for? she said, just whisper it in my ear. and she said, this community needs to hear from you. and i talked to other people there that day and i came to the conclusion that the african-american community, especially, were laying back, wanting some validation of joe biden. and so i got involved because i knew that that was -- he is the one guy that african-americans by and l

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and michael steele, you've seen the way larry hogan, the governor of maryland, has stepped up to the, but when we watch the president's news conference on friday -- we'll talk a lot about that later -- but the failure of the government to even anticipate some of this. there has been reporting that the fed chair was actually at a conference in saudi arabia, saw a -- an international conference -- saw what was happening globally. he was getting better information out of china and warned the white house about this. >> right. >> some months earlier. >> yeah. >> and was told by the people in the white house it's not a problem. >> yeah. and i think that's a part of the big frustration that governors across the country are having. governor larry hogan is chairman of the national governors association, and he has been at the tip of the spear and sort of coordinating, as you saw today, even with governor cuomo of new york, state efforts, because the states are really on the front lines, obviously. and so, it is important to note that the governors are the ones who have actually been setting t

for reaction, i want to bring in michael steele at the top of our broadcast here on the beat he was with me. patiently while we got a lot of medical updates from dr. emanuel. i hope you'll agree with me, michael, this is a time where we always go to the doctors first and he gave us a lot of great context but we've been waiting to turn to you -- >> as you should. >> as we should. as a lieutenant governor who has been involved in these kind of health decisions, running a state and as a former party chairman with your eye on the congress and that battle, i'm curious, first, your response to anything you heard here from this press conference. >> well, it's not so much what i heard, it's what i saw. and what i saw was the absence of dr. facui, and dr. fauci has become the face of the solution to many of the concerns and questions that americans have. he expressed some opinions that were different from the administration over this weekend, particularly relating to this idea that after 15 days, which, by the way, happens to be next week, i believe monday or tuesday, that, you know, we're going

. >> for more, i'm joined by joe donally of independent, and michael steele, former chairman of the rnc we'll start with you. the shot we just showed of biden. it looks like one of the things he was trying to achieve there was create a contrast. not just for democratic voters but all americans. looking for that presidential speech look. the american flags in the background. trying on give that it look and that feel. what is the broad contrast the biden campaign thinks it can create with trump in a speech like that? >> well, i think you've nailed it right off the top. they that i have had off last night. the president at the resolute desk in the oval office giving a speech. now typically, as you know, steve, that's a big deal. that's brownie points for the president. that speech fell flat for a lot of reasons in a lot of ways for a lot of americans. talking about tax cuts and banning trips to europe. when people are concerned about, can i take my kid to school tomorrow, what will happen at the grocery store. biden came out setting a different tone. and counter pointing the messaging of t

joining me is john waszer marn, nera tanden, michael steele and howard dean.ornly neutral in this race. correct? >> i am. >> good. i want to make sure. mr. wasserman, talk about this coalition. we're shocked about joe biden's comeback except it follows the same pattern that every single super tuesday since 1984 has followed in the democratic primary. super tuesday seems to when it goes to the south create a front-runner. >> chuck, in terms of drama, this race is far from over but in terms of the math i think it's actually pretty close to over and the breadth of joe biden's victory, the statement wins in massachusetts, maine, minnesota, texas but not only that he came out with more delegates even though bernie sanders had banked those early votes in texas and california and won't have that advantage going forward. but i think the takeaway from this, the democratic electorate nationwide has actually gotten less progressive since 2016, not more. that's because there's -- >> new democrats? >> yeah. >> who are the new democrats? >> new name for these suburban repub

governor romando and michael steele, thank you to both of you. >> thank you. >> you got it. >> we areifferent angles. next we turn to something special. the first person to receive a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine. she actually got this shot today. she joins us on msnbc when we're back in 30 seconds. >>> today the united states has tested its very first coronavirus vaccine. it went to a volunteer that you see right here, 43-year-old jennifer howeller from seattle. one of the hardest hit areas for this virus in washington state with over 840 cases. it's a fast-moving story and she joins us right now, the very first coronavirus vaccine volunteer, jennifer howeller and back with us for medical perspective, epidemiologist at ucal. jennifer, thank you for what you're doing. this fits into a lot of different ways people are participating and trying to help around the nation. and thank you for being willing to talk with us. >> yeah, i'm so happy to be here and i am so excited to be the first person. this is crazy. >> yeah, right. crazy is one word for it. i think it's got to hav

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. >> joining me now is nbc news national political reporter sahil kapur, ruth contributor, michael steel administration knows the testing issue is basically at the forefront right now of sort of -- of this response, and it has been a struggle and it feels like every one of these press conferences is an attempt to say we got this now, trust us this time. today's event felt more competent than any yet, so maybe this is it. this has been a struggle for them. >> it certainly has, chuck. this is a crisis that has tested president trump in a way that he has never really been tested before. the old playbook he's used on previous challenges simply doesn't work here. he can't tweet it away. he can't claim it's being fabricated by critics or political opponents to hurt him. he can't distract people in the hope it goes away. this is a moment that requires technocratic competence and a willingness to rely on expertise even when it goes against your short-term political interests. to put it mildly, those are two things president trump is not known for. you're right, chuck, the markets seem to react b

michael steele, former rnc chairman. michelle, you wrote a great column in the "new york times" where you said look i, get some impulse to say let's not talk about politics now we have a crisis but politics matter and holding the federal government and trump administration and donald trump accountable for the failures matters, why did you write that column? >> because i think you're starting to hear not just from right wing hacks from some reasonable people says now is not the time to write backwards and point fingers and i understand the impulse. i think the problem is the political failure is not just the past, it's on going. it's going on in the fact that the president gives these press conferences every day where he kind of lies and spreads misinformation and spreads false hopes like the fda approved drugs the fda has not approved. he basically tells people they shouldn't be as alarmed as in fact, they should. you see that reverberating throughout the country and just republicans telling pollsters they're not that wo

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know 1.7 what's the most what's the normal before the catastrophe normal background was 0.0 for michael steele it's only when the japanese government goal at this point is 0.23 so you can see that they're violating that all over the place and it's going to take a long time to get down to 0.23 which is still a serious level to have to live with that's the residents of japan the ones who live in this area are going to be facing this for the rest of their lives not just for a short visit during the olympics in terms of time span because we just talked about that number and right now they are greatly outside of what a recommendation would be how how long do you think it would take them to get to something that is a lot safer or something closer to what the japanese government has issued its regulatory for an appropriate measure while the japanese government and tokyo electric have spent something like $28000000000.00 just to decontaminate contaminated areas and what the greenpeace reports every year have shown consistently is they can decontaminate an area then a typhoon will hit like happened lat

governor, the former lieutenant governor of your state, michael steele has a question. michael?it has been amazing how it has come together. i want to expand beyond the state of maryland in light of everything that you have said. on a regional basis, how is that coordination between maryland, virginia and the district of columbia with the governor and mayor, number one? number two, is there any thought to a shelter in place moment that you are considering as governor or that is being considered in the region to act in a concerted way to get ahead of this virus in light of everything that you have done on the surge front, on the testing side? >> thank you, michael. we are working well together with the folks in the region. after we took action to close all the bars and restaurants, not too long after that, four or five hours later, the mayor of the district of columbia did the same thing in d.c. yesterday the governor took aggressive steps. we are all talking on a regular basis. we made suggestions about what to do with the washington metro system and relatively quickly a couple

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and joining me now is michael steele, msnbc political analyst and former rnc chairman, jennifer rubind opinion writer for "the washington post," carol simpson, legendary journalist who moderated the 1992 presidential debate between george h.w. bush, bill clinton and ross perot and gabriel sherman author of "the loudest voice in the room". carol, i'm going to go to you first. those that worked in local news and network news, and you are a legend in the network category, understand there is a different way trump is filtered in network and local news, particularly in local news. in local news what leads is the local story, the person who died, the in urs wnurse who diee human tragedy that affects the local community is what leads and there aren't commentary of donald trump. there are little bites of him when he does a two-how long-long press conference, not the whole props press conference, so the content of him in larger context isn't there. you see the government is doing "x" and "y," so it didn't surprise me he bumped up a little bit. what do you make of that? do we have carol? we mig

joining me now is michael steel and karine jean-pierre still with us. so let's talk about this.n't do it. >> he will force the issue. and there is no indication right now that -- >> do you think that he will do them. >> there is no indication that the president does not plan do a rally in the next, what -- >> he canceled one last week though, didn't he? >> i don't know if he canceled. >> it would be odd if he tried do them. it would be dangerous. >> but his inclination is to do them. >> let's assume that he can't do them. we saw on abc news last week, one of his former aid i goes was saying that it would put him off, he will be off key. whereas on the democratic side, there is a concern that maybe biden is not the best rally guy and he has to compete with bernie who has these huge rallies. in this case for joe biden, now he doesn't have to do it. >> and it was the most presidential thing that we've seen in this discussion short of the president behind resolute desk. but then what the president said decide minutished the moment. >> and crashed the stock market. >> right. so you h

michael steele is here and erick garcetti, who is supporting joe biden. thanks to both of you. because we have a strong surrogate, we're going to get to you in los angeles. but before i turn it over, michael, as a big picture person looking at the primary without a dog in the fight, what do you think of this line sanders is walking? there's time to fight and i promise it will be on substance. >> there's always time to fight but the substance part i think is where he's missing the point. my observations are -- and you and i have chatted about this before. looking at this campaign the past year, the base democratic voter of the folks coalescing around biden have always been about one thing. who can defeat trump. even when they were, as you noted earlier, straining eyes and that was the central thing. who can beat trump and this idea of policy and ideology and philosophy, they're not up for that. they don't want that fight. the vast majority of voters don't want that fight. what they want is to get me all crazy. who can get me all crazy and move the country back into a workable sp

. >> let me bring in michael steele, former rnc chairman. also with me is erlina maxwell and zerlina, i'll start with you. do you think in elizabeth warren were michael warren and was a man, same age and biothat we would be having this conversation? >> no. she would have done much better if she were a man. it not just that her campaign was explicitly feminist in terms of the progressive positions on policy, she hired feminists, black ones. and i think that that got lost in the conversation because there's so much focus on the principal and the candidates themselves. but the make up of your staff is a reflection of how you value those constituencies. if you hire all white male consultants, you are going to have plenty of blind spots for lived experiences that are not white and male. i think that this is a moment where we really have to take a deep look into the cultural reasons why this is happeningthis doesn't necessarily have anything to do with any of the specific mistakes elizabeth warren made because joe biden and bernie sanders made plen

while we wait, i want to bring in my panel, political strategist democrat, and republican michael steeleith us, msnbc host ali velshi. first to monica. >> reporter: we are still waiting for that press conference to begin. it was originally supposed to be at 4:30. then 5:00, now 5:30, and we're clearly well past that. i want to notice the split screen with everything happening on capitol hill as that procedural vote for a potential vote on the stimulus package was delayed this afternoon. that was supposed to take place around 3:00 p.m. it is likely to be any time in the next 15 minutes or more. so these will be happening at the same time with all of these questions about what the senate will look like with many senators now saying they will be self-quarantining. isolating after senator rand paul tested positive for coronavirus. i think it is possible the white house is trying to frame that. . what that means going forward. what it means as many, many americans are waiting for news to see what will come from this large stimulus package which could be affected by this unforeseen circumstanc

joining me, mark murray, donna edwards, michael steele, and for now, reporter for the daily beast but soon to be at politico, nancy swan. we celebrate both employers. >> exactly how i feel. >> the beast of the politico. the politico beast. >> exactly. >> this economic uncertainty, mark, coupled with what we have seen, like there is the markets, anxiety is the virus that is spreading fastest right now in this country. and it is -- it seems to be impacting everything. >> let me read off some of the other numbers in the poll. 61% of the reg verdict voters ended up saying they are concerned including a quarter who are very concerned. >> i have a graphic to put up. keep going. >> 59% say they have had conversations how this might impact their family. it has penetrated the american public. then you get to the economic part that you were just talking about. so much of this u.s. economy right now is on consumer driven. and all of a sudden if you have some kind of disruption like that, even though it doesn't last a while, it could really impact thing. >> you know, look, the president's comment

to sdurks lily adams, former communications director for kamala harris' presidential campaign, michael steelroit native ron fournier, veteran journalist who has covered presidential politics for decades and he's also a michigan native. lily, why did senator harris come out with an endorsement for the former vp after the california primary? that's where she's got a lot of sway. >> look, i think, one, she wanted to make clear that she believes joe biden is the best candidate to not just take on donald trump but also to restore this country after we get rid of him in november. but, two, she was very cognizant there were a lot of historic number of women in the race and felt strongly that it was important to allow those women to see their candidacies through before she threw her support behind anybody and, obviously, we saw after senator warren got out of the race that she made it clear that joe biden was the best candidate to lead democrats. >> ron, take us inside michigan. the latest poll from the "detroit free press" out today has biden with a 24-point lead in michigan, but back in 2016, the

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

i don't foreseem themselves doing it, but -- when i interviewed michael steele for the latest book i, he described this moment as almost ballism, as is the golden calf, and the rep -- he's a former seminaryian, so he described it in those terms, for donald trump to induce this very hard-core christian audience to believe that, it strikes me as not just rhetoric, because people do whatever he says, and you see governors doing what he wants in florida, in red states, in texas, that's the danger. they might do it. they might have their people go back to work. >> mississippi is already saying they're going to consider it. >> when you say go back to work because we want to get the economy humming, the economy for whom? if what he's doing is exposing people to danger, this makes us unique from other species. when you're saying our loved ones might be exposed for moan, it doesn't make sense, and it's malpractice of public servitude. you said to see the leadership in governors in cuomo and gavin newsom where they're taking care of people, that there should not by a falsanc false equivalency.

. >> michael steele, a former staffer, say iing they're able do what democrats weren't able to do in016. >> that single candidate, donald trump, happened to be elected president. let me amplify on what bob said. bernie is more than likely going to win today. california is leaning left. the leftist candidate is going to win. we have about 20 million voters, about 4 million of them have voted as of this morning. there's a lot of votes out. the biden bump, which didn't show up until sunday here in california, will not show up in tonight's results. a week ago, there was a three percentage gap. as of this morning 28% of republicans have turned out, 20% of democrats have turned out. establishment democrats decided to wait and see what happened in south carolina. so, bernie is going to have a higher margin tonight because votes that were cast on sunday, monday and today, you know, in california, you have 30 days to count the votes. i think tonight will be bernie's high water mark. and any biden bump will start showing up wednesday, thursday, friday, as the absentees, late absentees are coun

the month president trump took office in january 2017, the fbi knew the steele dossier was fraudulent, unverified. they knew michaellynn was not an agent of russia. the key targets of the fbi including george papadopoulos and carter page made exculpatory statements to the fbi agents telling them they were not involved in any way. yet the american public was kept in the dark for at least two years. attorney general william barr and fbi director christopher wray approving of the fisa bill that passed the house today with some changes. we don't know whether we can call them reforms yet. there were no committee hearings or public discussion whatsoever. this secret court, a soviet-like court system for the surveillance of supposedly foreigners on our soil. but it turns out to be a soviet-style court system used in a soviet-style way. back to the attorney general writing today, i am pleads, he said, that the bill contains a number of provisions director wray and i put forward to address past failures. we don't know which failures they are. we haven't seen a report. we haven't seen anyone held to account for the fraudulen

i think we do need to steel ourselves to what could be some pretty scary numbers coming up. alix: michaeli of jp morgan, thank you so much for chatting with us today. coming up, jp morgan wealth clients get overwhelmed during the market rout. more on how banks are dealing with the virus in the fallout. if you have a bloomberg terminal, check out tv . you can watch us online, interact with us directly. go to tv under terminal. you can scroll through and check out anything you may have missed. this is bloomberg. ♪ viviana: this is "bloomberg daybreak." coming up in the next hour, cfo. gilvary, bp ♪ viviana: you are watching "bloomberg daybreak." todayin with the airlines feeling even more pain in the midst of a travel clamp down and falling demand. ryanair announcing it is grounding most of its fleet in europe, and postponing share buybacks. american and united cutting more flights. the parent of british airways cutting capacity the next two months by at least 75%. iag also looking to cut operating expenses. australia's qantas planning a fourth set of capacity cuts. over to france,

michael feroli of jp morgan. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ alix: this is "bloomberg daybreak." i am alix steel.i for february in just minutes. after its for the s&p biggest rally yesterday since 2018. now we are almost 3%. other asset classes -- a broadly weaker dollar story. yield still down between nine and 10 basis points as the curb flattens. crude rolling ever. now we are all 4%. it continues to get ugly for the oil producers. the data coming up any second good we have average hourly earnings -- cpi. basis,a month by month coming in .1% a year on year basis. 2.3%. both stronger than estimated. on a sequential basis the year on year read is lower and month on month is in line. we are still waiting for the core. in're on your cpi coming cpi comingr on year into .3% -- coming in 2.3%. average hourly earnings up .6%. mike, what you think? not enough detail to make any assumptions on what this means. this was expected. comparisons to the same month last year are much better. the fed expecting inflation numbers to go higher. you have to remember the fed does not look at cpi as much as they look

michael zezas of morgan stanley. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ alix: welcome to "bloomberg this wednesday, march 4. i'm alix steel.the top. >> we have seen bookings decline -- declined by averaged 25% to 30% on a daily basis. cases in surging italy, iran, and perhaps that is puts the fatality rate for this virus at 3.4%. kong pmi falls to a 17 year low. fed chair jay powell surprises the market with a 50 basis point cut. nk.cks si it is all uncharted territory. >> i see another 15% decline from where we are now in stocks. alix: the market speculates the boe could also issue an emergency cut. michael: we got adp today, jobs day friday. you can forget those because it is old news. we might not see anything until april because it will take a while for anything to get into the data, as infections are just starting to ramp up in the united states. alix: now support is starting to mount for fiscal support. mr. biden: for those who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. alix: former vice president joe biden stages a huge comeback as wins theernie sanders california primary. sen. sanders:

steel and gray. the people looks at the childhood and the people that she says is the unsung backbone of our country. she will be with michael and it will be held down the street. finally i want to shout out for march 30, we are really thrilled to feature gerry mitchell, to hear about his courageous story, bringing justice the klansman responsible for some the notorious crimes of the civil rights era. he is going to share his memoir, race against time, the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era. he will be in conversation with ohio state university historianni and experts, that will be held and tickets are veiled through our vents. onto tonight. you will be hearing about women geniuses. even in the time every thinking women's role, we define genius almost exclusively through male achievement. when asked to name a genius, most people mention albert i'd stone. will janice kaplan decided to find out why, why have the orextraordinary work of so many women been brushed aside? the result is her remarkable book, "the genius of women", it's a memoir narratives and inspirations, janice makes surprising discoveries about women

michael horowitz 2019, report , revealed 17 major mistakes and with many lesser abuses. among many other abuses the is that general found the f.b.i. had used unverified llegations from the steele dossier to get a fisa warrant on carter page. reliability d the of those allegations to the court. omitted exculpatory information from their submission. nd had doctored an email to hide page's prior cooperation agency..s. intelligence h.r. 6172 is the first step in imposing reforms to address abuses and restore accountability in the fisa process. these reforms include but are not limited to requiring the general's approval in order to obtain a fisa warrant or any candidate for federal office. imposing strong penalties for those who conceal information fisa court or leak fisa derived information. clear viding authorization for congress to access fisa materials so that better officials can oversee fisa cases without obstruction. this legislation makes strong reforms that will protect the merican people from government overreach while continuing to protect the homeland from threats. close congressional oversight of the fisa process, which will be nhanced significantly by this bill, must