mississippi? which one are you choosing? vietnam? mississippi? >> to be honest, though, it ain't good in mississippi either. >> right. vietnam? did you hear her say, to be honest, though, it ain't really good in mississippi either. so this is what you're choosing between, vietnam and mississippi. so then you're having to make another choice. where do i think i can do the most good? when that's the parameter where do i think i can be the change agent? they chose mississippi. >> did anyone choose vietnam? >> not that i know of. not that i know of. that's not to say i didn't happen. but -- while this debate is going on, there's an snic member up in massachusetts, bob moses. and moses had an aura status in snic because he had what i call quiet power. you know that thing where -- you know it's not the one who is blustering the most, there's just something. quiet power. moses had that. moses had been asked by the head of the naacp down in mississippi to come down to mississippi and help register folks to vote. separate from the bobby kennedy associatio

why can't i love mississippi?yinfamous ♪ ♪ all bets are off i'm through talking ♪ ♪ never gonna fall for my spider move august and september ♪ ♪ block your october so you should be thankful the party's not over ♪ ♪ we won the race 'cause they ran a lame campaign ♪ ♪ i'm over here cooking victory you want a taste? ♪ >> anthony: pyinfamous is a proud son and resident of mississippi. a youth mentor in jackson's church and public school systems, owner of a marketing agency, and hip-hop artist. this town, it feels empty. where is everybody? >> pyinfamous: i think one thing is a lot of people think that you have to leave mississippi to be able to do something great. but i think a lot of it is there's so much bubbling in the undercurrent that sometimes isn't seen. and i think it takes an artist who usually takes something that's blank and creates something that's awesome to be able to see the potential in a place, in a canvas, so to speak, that has been vacated by others. >> anthony: soul wired cafe. one of a number of p

lasalle and welcome back to mississippi because he missed mississippi, his business was in mississippi, he was in lumbar, he would come back and then we awe lewis allen suffered three shotgun blast to the face on his last trip back to mississippi. we would bob moses woke that death will on his shoulders and in his heart and in his soul because it is like, lewis allen, if i hadn't talked to him, if i hadn't convinced him to tell the truth, that man would still be alive. but one of the things that became really clear to him, what became really clear to him with is that it was going to take more than what we snick have been able to do to bring voting rights to mississippi, it would take more than the structure of the council a federated organizations because there are bodies piling up with and nothing is moving, nothing is changing. how do you create change? but moses comes up with, is freedom summer. we and freedom summer will be that moment where he is saying we have to bring in students, because you know you are all fearless, students from around the nation to come to mississippi to se

mississippi pension. you had to be a resident of mississippi who served the confederacy. states like texas had a home for veterans and a home for winter with -- home for widows. virginia had separate homes as well, but mississippi only had the one. mississippi may have been late building their home, but it allowed the udc to go around and investigate how other states were doing this, what was working, what wasn't working. i can't find a smoking gun that says, we should just build this home with everybody living together. i haven't found evidence of that, but that is what they did. i have often wondered if looking at these other homes, instead of having two separate homes, let's have everybody live together. [indiscernible] during what years did jefferson davis and his wife live there? it was after the civil war. he purchases the home from sarah dorsey for very little money. the argument is, she wanted to give her the home, he insisted on paying. die,did jefferson davis 1879? don't quote me on that. so he

sanders has union support, we have one in mississippi, the unions are not as strong in mississippi ashey are in other places. they try to unionize -- it was voted down 60-40 so i don't think they have as much influence but the unions are an extension of the establishment of the democratic party so they think joe biden will give them a chance of winning, i think they are wrong. where the democratic nominee is donald trump is going to be reelected president but you see unions allison behind biden for the same reason you see the rest of the establishment doing, they are terrified of having a democrat on the ticket who is willing to admit he is a socialist. when you look at the policy differences they are not that great between joe biden and bernie sanders, the difference is biden pretends to be a moderate centrist and the media let him get away with it whereas bernie sanders is clear that he is a socialist and he will push for socialist policies. shannon: the big story will be the turn out and the point you made, democrats walking away and joining the republican party, that will be inter

has to be taken to open the mississippi river. the vicksburg campaign is essentially a two-pronged campaign. i am becoming more and more convinced as i do more work on vicksburg, the first essential effort in the vicksburg campaign is to actually get to vicksburg. the second major strategic effort in this larger plan, we talked about the strategic plan that was the anaconda plan and all that, the second major effort is to take vicksburg. first, you've got to get to vicksburg, which is extremely difficult due to the mississippi delta, due to the 300 foot bluffs on the river to the west. due to the logistical challenges to the south. the only good way to approach vicksburg is from the east, and that is better held territory. that is what grant took as we moved to the operational level of the war. it takes grant six or seven months to get to vicksburg, then you have to take vicksburg. there are two assaults involved in that, then the famous siege that we all know about. just getting to vicksburg is one major component of the strategi

you're the establishment in jackson, mississippi. i'm certainly here and a part of the community building that takes place in jackson. >> and you're the mayor. you're the chief executive of the city. >> absolutely, absolutely. but i take a unique position to listen to the people, not only in the process of having a people's caucus, we've executed things like participatory budgeting because we feel that a budget is a moral document that speaks to the values of our community and i think we should utilize that same process in the selection of our leadership and the policies that move this country forward in cities like jackson, mississippi, forward. >> all right, mayor of jackson, mississippi, thank you for being with me. >>> coming up, 18 different states have voted so far in this democratic primary. might we know who the nominee is after six more vote on tuesday? we'll dig into that next. >> first, my colleague richard lewis will update us on the coronavirus. richard? >> hey, rev. here's the latest this hour. first off there's a state

to the people of mississippi. you should know that your government is breaking new ground when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. the governor of your state today has pioneered a whole new kind of response to the coronavirus pandemic in which he is legally blocking towns and cities in your state from doing a better job than he is at keeping you alive. he is undoing public health measures and insisting that the state will not have them. meanwhile, in many more places on earth, this is an ask not what your country can do for you moment, but ask what you can do for your country kind of moment. in the u.k., where the response was slow and small until they just now started to panic at how behind they are, we mentioned last night that the government in the u.k. put out a call for 250,000 regular citizen volunteers, just regular british citizens, to please come forward, and volunteer to three try to bolster the national health service as the nhs comes under what is expected to be an absolute assault in terms of the nu

mississippi voted for biden.ntinues to handily win the black vote nationwide. in misery the tide continued in another double digit win for biden beating sanders 60 percent-34%. biden sweeping every county in michigan, missouri, mississippi. he also won idaho, the win giving him a commanding delegate lead over sanders. >> it is more than a comeback in my view. it is a come back in the soul of this nation. this campaign is taking off and i believe we are going to do well from this point on. take nothing for granted. i want to earn every vote in every single state. >> we are waiting on results from washington state in north dakota. sanders did not speak last night, choosing instead to fly home to vermont. both candidates canceling rallies in cleveland due to the coronavirus, speaking of covid-19 the highly anticipated debate on sunday will now be audience free. heather: joe biden as many super tuesday sweep cementing his spiders the party front runner but will bernie sanders accept defeat or will he try to hang in u

and while that is true, mississippi is not a gigantic country in asia, mississippi is sandwiched between louisiana, which has what is probably the fastest-growing epidemic in the country, maybe in the world, and alabama, where birmingham, alabama hospitals are already screaming from the rooftops for help, in terms of the numbers of patients they've already got in their intensive care units and on ventilators. mississippi right in between louisiana and alabama. but today the governor of mission mississippi, tate reeves, decided he would break new ground in this pandemic. not only did he announce today there would still not be a stay-at-home order statewide in mississippi but the governor of mississippi today did something brand new. he issued his own executive order that overrides and overturns any actions that have been taken by cities and towns in his state. even as he is refusing to act statewide. so take for example the beautiful city of tupelo, mississippi. birthplace of elvis presley, right? world famous. on saturday the mayor of tupelo, mississippi ordered a stay-at-home order for

blayne alexander in jackson, mississippi.n holding out hope for a big sanders showing in mississippi, the mayor of jackson. the largest city. he's endorsed bernie sanders. right before senator sanders abruptly canceled the rally to spend more time in michigan. i'm joined by mayor chokwe lumumba. stand by if you can mayor. president trump is speaking on the coronavirus. >> president trump made it clear from the early days of the coronavirus, this could be a whole of government approach. this president has also called together businesses and industries to make this a whole of america approach. last week at this table, the president met with pharmaceutical leaders, met with nursing home leaders, the leaders of commercial labs, airline industries. we're bringing all of the businesses as a country to bear to protect the health of the american people. today, mr. president, you directed us to brio -- health insurance companies, through support of medicare and medicaid, almost 240 million americans. i'm pleased to report as you reque

behind me is the mississippi state penitentiary known locally as parchment prison where an astounding 9 individuals have died in the past month alone since the start of the new year reports of everything from fights and fires and suicides to insufficient food and water supplies power outages and individuals sleeping on the floors have been reported and a mountain of human rights abuses are allegedly going on behind these walls we traveled here today to speak with locals activists politicians celebrities and everyone in between and to try and figure out why these things are happening here parchment and what can be done to fix the problem in order to understand the current crisis inside parchment you have to go way back in history and understand the prison's roots of former governor of mississippi and open my supreme mrs james k. vardaman was instrumental in creating the mississippi state prison he believed that the money made from convict leasing and chain gangs should go to the state instead of private entities and those of the mississippi state penitentiary was born the prison itself

when mississippi seceded it became the confederate hotel. sherman of course is not very impressed with that. but sherman is back at jackson and there's a military center that will affect our -- what's the word i'm looking for, it will threaten grant's rear if he's moving westward towards vicksburg. now, let's compare that with the confederate commander, john c. bem brten. let's do the same anal s up and down the chain of command, and pemberton's having problems. whereas grant's out in the middle of nowhere in mississippi and can't even get in contact with his superiors. pemberton has ready access. the problem is both are telling him what to do, and i've often thought pemberton is a in kind of situation it must have been like having two mothers in lieu. i dearly love her, but one is enough. i can't imagine having two mothers in law. the problem is they're telling them completely opposite things. don't lose the army losing vicksburg. which is kind of a problem for the confederacy. if you think about it there's a pattern here. what did the thre

he left mississippi. he canceled trips in mississippi to instead go back to michigan.ichigan. and despite that, you still saw that big margin in that state. it does call into question one of the central arguments that senator sanders makes and you hear it all the time, chris, that he can bring the energy and excitement needed to take on president trump. he says he'll be able to drive turnout in those mid perswester states president trump flipped in 2016. if he's not able to drive that turnout in the democratic primary, it does call into question whether he's able to do na in the general election. when he was in detroit today when he stopped by some polling locations, he took some questions from reporters. one question i asked him was did he see a path to the nomination that did not include winning a majority of african-americans in the south. we know that on super tuesday, african-americans in the south went for biden, six in enten. his answer to that question was he didn't think of that. he brought it back to the greater idea that he has the momentum and that he has t

maybe the gentleman from mississippi can give us insight from mississippi? >> thank you for your question. i think one of the things it's important to think about from a state perspective, i've been doing this a long time, state budgets and county budgets especially are susceptible to the business cycle. budgets especially are very susceptible to the business cycle and when they contract they just -- they cut indiscriminately. the stability we see primarily will be for better or worse, there is a lot more stability from the federal funding sources. so that can be kind of the bedrobe bedrock of public health. the other things that's happened almost philosophically as we've worked to expand insurance coverage to people, which is important and i think people need health care, but there has been an assumption that public health and health care are the same thing and they are not at all the same. i have about half the nurses i had four years ago. how do you respond to a crisis when i can't pull nurses and go to houses and check on people. this communication about

johnston's authority ends at the mississippi river. so kirby smith on the other side is a completely different department. so, yes, those orders would have had to come from richmond themselves to get anything done and kirby smith is not very interested. there will be some movement on the other side, of course, on june 7th with the attack at militant's men. and then some other advances on the lake providence area and so on, but nothing that would even remotely aid pem bberton in vicksburg. really by the time pemberton is bottled up in vicksburg, there's not much kirby smith could have done anyway. it's a done deal. yes, sir? >> did the fact that pemberton was a pennsylvanian have any affect on the confidence of his leadership, both up and down the chain of command? >> absolutely, it does. another thing, reading all these letters and diaries and so on, everybody talks about -- everybody is convinced that pemberton has sold v. c vicksburg, that he got money and worked out with grant, that they were communicating with a bouquet of flowers

the gentleman from mississippi, is recognized. mr. thompson: -- the chair: the gentleman from alabama reserves the balance of time. the gentleman from mississippi, mr. thompson, is recognized. mr. thompson: i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from new york, who has championed issue from day one, and so i yield to the gentlelady. the gentlewoman from ew york is recognized for two minutes. lowey.mrs. mrs. lowey: i rise in support of this bill. chairman thompson and i have this bill for a very long time, and i'm glad the considering it today. give t.s.a.'s screening workforce the same rights afforded to other federal title 5, like fair ay under the general schedule pay scale, sick leave according to o.p.m. guidelines, and rights.ve bargaining our t.s.o.'s have earned these rights. front s serve on the lines of aviation security and protect the traveling public on a daily basis. is unreasonable to deny these hardworking men and women who the basic e protections of federal civil service. this bill today to send a clear message to t.s.a.

and in mississippi, moderates, conservatives and black voters.nd in missouri, 80% of democratic voters there who said they wanted a candidate who could unite the country. they ended up choosing the former vice president. >> joe biden addressed supporters in philadelphia where following numerous primary victories he sounded like he had already become the democratic nominee. >> tonight, i want to the speak to you from philadelphia, where we announced our campaign at the front end, when we did our final announcement. to all those who have been knocked down, to all those who have been counted out, left behind, is this your campaign. just over a week ago, many of the pundits declared this candidacy was dead. now, we're very much alive. [ cheers and applause ] and although there's a way to go, looks like we're going to have another good night. as i said from the beginning, this election is one that has character on the ballot. the character of the candidates. the character of the nation is on the ballot. it's more than a comeback in my view, our campai

kim: i yield to the distinguished chairman from mississippi. the chair: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: thank you, very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i'm happy to rise in support of the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. kim. federal air marshals are an essential component of the laird aviation security system -- layered aviation security system created in the wake of the september 11 attack. every day these quiet heroes keep the flying public safe. as representative kim's amendment recognizes, there are me major personnel changes that need timely attention. i commend the gentleman from new jersey for introducing this amendment to direct t.s.a. to aggressively take on the mental health and morale challenges within the subset of the t.s.a. work force. again i compliment the gentleman for his amendment and urge support. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from mississippi yields back. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. kim: i would like to remind my colleagues this bill isn't just a matter of

this crossed the mississippi before the ice stop the other detachments. the others arrived in february and march. it has often been estimated that 4000 cherokees died during the process. there were about 1200 deaths, but there were many additional deaths after removal that reduce the population of the cherokee nation by at least an additional 1600 people, so there were at deathslose to 6000 caused by the removal. the cherokees have passed an act of posing the death penalty on anyone who should propose the sale for the exchange of their land. after their arrival at the present cherokee nation, a group of cherokees met secretly, and since various members of the treaty members were dead based on that law. major ridge come along with his ridge, were all june 2, 18 39, and one of the executors of major ridge was james hair. the trail of tears is an example of what can happen when prejudice combines with greed. it was a direct result of the supreme court decision of worcester v. george or being ignored. -- georgia being ignored. while we faced great adversities

there's a mississippi freedom democratic party in 1964. there's the lounz county freedom organization, nicknamed the black panther and that black panther party is what inspired the oakland black panther party and the black panthers that we think of in a contemporary context, so walters was all for that, but that does not happen in a way that he had anticipated. i'll take questions. i'm going to open it up. >> i have a question, just a simple question. do you think that black power was a logical extension to like the integration of civil rights movement, or was it a break? >> you know, i think it's both. i think it's separate and distinct, but it's -- i think when you think about civil rights and black oh, you think about these black freedom struggles as a huge redwood in california, a redwood tree, and they are -- there are many, many branches, and at times those branches intertwine, and at times those branches are separate, so i think black power is rooted in the same tree but it's definitely a different branch, but one of the things that

what are the storylines we should watch on the congressional front out of mississippi? guest: that's a good question. frankly have been focused so much on the coronavirus and all the other stuff going on in congress i haven't been paying too much attention to mississippi. last week during super tuesday there were some pretty good storylines with alabama, jeff sessions in a runoff in a couple of weeks, president trump going after jeff sessions in the middle of the coronavirus he added extra time to go to take a shot at jeff sessions. what were your biggest surprises on the congressional front and anything we should be looking out for this week or next? guest: i would strongly encourage anyone following the campaign right now to pay attention to black turnout. estate like mississippi is one where black turnout, democrats are hoping they can maintain that momentum through the next few contests. theississippi like alabama, black vote is really the centerpiece of democratic electorate there. sandersone like bernie versus joe biden, that is key. i would strongly encourage fol

maybe the gentleman from t mississippi can give us insight from mississippi? >> things it's important thank you for your question i think one of the things thatan d areo from our perspective. thendiscr state budgets and cous budgets are very susceptible to the business sector. whenaril they contract they cut publ discriminatory and so the stability that we see for better or worse, there's a lot more instability from the federal funding sources so that can be kind of the bedrock of th public health. together things happen as we worked toim thed expandpo insurance coverage whih isth a important and i think pee need health carere. but there has been an assumption that public health and health care are the same. things are not the same. about half the nurses i had four years ago. so how do you respond to the crisis versuswhen i cannot pull houses to check on peaceful? the i think the sort of communication about health care versus public health as distracted as from the corn l meets.ococ the other thing relationships is important sometimes some places we have great

he will crush in mississippi. he won missouri, one of the closest states in the country in 2016, so it's another great night for joe biden, basically. host: host: where does this put the sanders campaign? schedules in flux because of the coronavirus, including what we saw tonight in cleveland. guest: i think this put first and foremost the debate on sunday as a major turning point for this election. it could be a turning point towards sanders, shouldn't sanders have to turn us around, but he has to change something. biden is not just winning in the south. biden won up north on super tuesday peer he won michigan, rust belt state. crushing in the south. this debate coming on sunday will be a big moment for sanders to try to turn his campaign around in the next week, a lot of those states are friendly to biden, florida especially. what comes next for sanders is the big question. host limit we should point out on the cnn debate scheduled for friday evening, no audience because of the coronavirus issues. they will do i

we're following the cdc and mississippi department of health guidelines. know, we've all got to flatten the curve, that's what we've been trying to do. the governor superseded that expressly, directly in his expectative order. so, you know, what we have to do is, you know, we can't go further than that pursuant to the expressed language. so what we're trying to do is see what we can do to continue our efforts to keep people from getting sick in tupelo. >> so let's talk about that. what you can do. what are you doing to keep your citizens safe in tupelo? if you talk to many experts, they say a lot of the country was behind the numbers when you were seeing cases pop up, you should have started shutting things down then. so is there any way at this point that you can appeal to the governor and say, if we don't get ahead of this now, the cases are going to continue to rise and then it's going to get out of control? >> you know, i had that conversation with the governor on the phone this morning, very cordial, very professional, but i expressed the concerns are

ultimately the trans-mississippi is everything west of the mississippi river. we will talk about that, but also go into the far west where we are and also into california. both the confederacy and union are not interested in competing over this space, the confederacy -- not just interested in competing over this space. we talk about westward extension. this is for all the money, to control west of the mississippi river. what i mean by more than one border is these are border states. this is the border between what? the union and the south. these are confederate states -- not really confederate states, but it is complicated. these are slave states. these are union states. this is unorganized territory. within the border states, you have a war that doesn't look like what we see in the eastern theater. the eastern theater is big fancy battles, gettysburg and antietam, robert e. lee and ulysses s. grant fighting it out. that is mostly what americans think when they think about the civil war. we have done a pretty good job mixing that up and realizing how complicate

joe biden, once again, the winner, the big winner in mississippi p mississippi. as far as missouri and north dakota is concerned, too early. >>> joe biden canceled that rally in cleveland. he'll be giving remarks press in philadelphia. there is no public audience here. a few, a handful of members of his staff will be on hand as well as the press corps that is traveling with him roshgeportin him. that will include a portion about coronavirus. but they're also expected to give an overall arching vision for his vision of the country. they canceled the rallies because of the coronavirus. joe biden, the winner in mississippi. he will win the democratic presidential primary, 36 delegates at stake in mississippi. joe biden, the winner in missouri right now. we're not yet able to make a projection on the vote. similarly in north dakota too early to call between biden and sanders. only 14 delegates at stake in north dakota. but we're not, not able to make a projection. let's look at the big map right now. let's go to bernie sanders. you can seat big map. the dark blue are

this voracious hunger of alabama and mississippi, and now look up and down the mississippi river and going over to louisiana. we also know that in louisiana, -- look at how densely it is burning down there, the sugar regions. they wanted young men. 90% of the men they would buy in virginia, 90% of the people they would buy would be male. the women they bought were actually girls, and as soon as they could possibly have babies, and they would have children and to the could not have children any longer. infant mortality was horrific. what do these dots mean? it means million enslaved people two were moved in the south in these decades. 2 million americans moving other americans. you can see now how the displacement of the american indians is tied to this voracious expansion of slavery and of the south. as the white population changed in the same decades, when they you will notice, they are not the same. most white people do not own slaves and cannot afford the land where the big slaveholders moved, and they take their 12 enslaved people and get the best land. you were going to go summe

we're going to talk to the mayor of jackson, mississippi. are in it for the long haul. 150 employees working on the production line say they will self-isolate inside the factory for the next month. the company which usually exports their protective gear is supplying health care workers around the country. >>> across the country, at least 229 million people are being urged to stay home. take a look at how those orders are being imposed. it's a patchwork response with some orders going statewide and other orders are limited to certain parts of the state. the latter particularly prevalent across the deep south. georgia tops 2,500, alabama reaches more than 800, mississippi approaching 800 as well. dr. deborah birx making this point this morning. >> we're very worried about every city in the united states and the potential for this virus to get out of control. if the metros and the rural areas don't take care now, by the time you see it, it has penetrated your community pretty significantly. >> joining me now is the mayor of jackson, mississippi

he's all but pulled out of mississippi. joshua, we'll all be watching michigan pretty darn close come tuesday. >> that was nbc's garrett haake reporting from grand rapids. >>> now on to the coronavirus outbreak and word from administration officials today that it's going to get worse. one of the government's top disease experts spoke today on "meet the press." >> we're seeing community spread, so it's our responsibility to protect the vulnerable. when i say protect, i mean right now not wait until things get worse. >> the number of cases in mt. u.s. is approaching 500 with infections in at least 33 states and the district of columbia. a new case was just reported in connecticut. meanwhile, italy has taken a drastic step to stop community spread by locking down the northern section of the country. as local officials here look to the federal government for help. nbc's hans nichols is in west palm beach, not far from the president's florida residence. hans, what's going on in terms of, if nothing else, just getting the adminis

a humble little place on the edge of a mississippi highway. here, ebbers earns the reputation as a penny pincher. >> bernie told me a lot of times that-that, uh, he didn't know anything about the long distance or the telephone business, but he knew how to read numbers. and he was a number cruncher. and even in his first-- the first motel, uh, you know, they cleaned the rooms, they did the washing, they cleaned all the linens and everything. but, you know, instead of hiring somebody to do it, he did it himself. >> ebbers' frugal ways served the start-up well. "ldds" needs to be lean and mean, in order to offer cut rate long distance. before long, customers are beating a path to its door. >> it-it mushroomed fast. you know, it went from 240 to a thousand. and then just-just tens of thousands. and i couldn't even tell you how fast that growth was. >> a year and a half later, bernie ebbers moved from partner to president. under ebbers' watch, "ldds" goes on a buying spree, snapping up other long distance carriers throughout the south. and in just

freedom summer to bring democracy to the state of mississippi. they will organize and bring over 1000 volunteers, many of whom are white, who go in and everything from register people to vote, to the creation of over 41 freedom schools. the free southern theater is doing performances in the south. mississippi freedom summer is huge, in the sense of highlighting the depth of racial poverty and white supremacy. one of the things we see when ron walters -- in his last final posthumously published book, he makes an argument that there was slavery into the 20th century, into the 1960's, with black people who are sharecropping in mississippi and alabama in the deep south who were disallowed to leave the plantations, who were victims of modern day slavery that go way past what the time. talks about in slavery by another name and there's a documentary about it. 1964 is also the passage of the vote of the civil rights act july 2, 19 64. the civil rights act is important. it is really set up both race and gender as a protected class by the federal governme

they thought -- in mississippi resented that. i don't think that helped any, you know, rise in sanders' candidacy specifically with the african american community in mismississippi. >> woodruff: we may say asjo much ae biden is celebratings too much i big climb if he's the nominee up against pr>>ident trouble. hat's right. here in mississippi this is a ruby red state. it's one of president trump's strong holds of any state in the country. this is a conservative state will definitely in november, early november will be having a conversation about just how well president trump did here undoubtedly. but look, i think there are still in mis esissipn, there are moderate voters who may have not necessarily appreciated some of what president trump has done in his first three and-a-half years in office and certainly as this year progresses, we'll see what happens. but sure, this is certainly a strong hold for president trump and that will play out in november. >> woodruff: adam ganucheau with misissippi today. thank you, adam. now to mis

i'm joined by adam ganucheau of mississippi today, a non-profito neanization based in jackson. so adam, we've just been listening to tim alberta talk about what th african american voters, what many of them see in jobiden in michigan. what about in mississippi where i believe african americans make up, what, 75% of the8[cratic primary vote? >> that's right, judy. 75%-ish of democratic primary voters in the starate african american. mississippi itself, just in terms of population, has the highest percentage of african american residents of any state ry the cou what tim was saying about michel gone and sort of joe biden's success, particularly with african americanoters there, is true here. i really do think there is a trust factor here witerh fo vice president biden,. you know, you heaall the time from mississippi voters who have really put a lotof their faith and trust in president obama over the years andertainly by extension vice president biden. you know, hile that's the case, voters here are not mnolithic. no demographic is in ay state, i know this. jack an's mayor, who isn

it was out in mississippi. biden got fourth in iowa, fifth in new hampshire, and he had 'em just where he wanted 'em. >> that's amazing. he actually had this is what he was going to do all along, win in south carolina and keep winning. and nobody believed him. maybe they should have. ron fournier, you're a michigan guy. give us your thoughts on joe biden dominating, winning in every state, winning in the college towns, winning in the suburbs, winning in black neighborhoods, winning all across your state. >> yeah, he's the presumptive nominee. but i think this is more about trump than it is about biden. think about it. four years ago in 2016 michigan democrats did not think donald trump was going to become president. they were not worried about donald trump. they thought he was a joke. there's no way he was going to win the nomination. we could certainly beat him in the fall even if he did. so voting for sanders was a safe protest vote. they didn't think donald trump was going to win and they really didn't like

something we saw a couple of states in mississippi. continuing joe biden, what he's done across the south over the course of the last ten days. winning every single county in mississippi. winning 81% of the vote. most notably, keeping bernie sanders under 15%. that viability fresh hold to win delegates. the vast majority, if not all of them will go to joe biden. joe biden also winning idaho as well. as alison pointed out, there are two state outstanding. one of the states under scores the real issues that bernie sanders has going for it. if you look at the top line delegate map, joe biden up by 140 delegates. he's at 787 delegates. you say look, he nodes 1,991 delegates. 787 is a long ways from that. there's still a lot of contests to go. look at the state of washington, state where bernie sanders is narrowly ahead. 2,000 votes ahead in the state. however, this was a state bernie sanders was expecting to win. had a 17,000 voter rally a couple of weeks ago. had a great organization on the ground, a lot of money here. even if bernie sand

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what are you hearing in mississippi?well, i think as you all are saying, i think mississippi is going to be biden country today. there was a poll that came out a couple of days ago showing him up 55%. 55 points in mississippi. his events this weekend at new hope baptist church, one of the state's oldest and largest predominantly black congregations. and at the college. most of the democratic political leadership in this state has endorsed vice president biden. i think it's going to be a big day for him. >> bobby, you say turnout is crucial, not for one candidate or the other but for democrats in general. explain. >> well, i just went back to 2008 and kind of -- we're viewed as a solid red state but we do have a significant number of democratic voters. democrat normally get 40% of this state at least. in 2008, the hillary clinton/barack obama primary turnout was still the largest turnout in this state, republican or democrat, in a presidential primary. so i just thought that, you know, that big turnout in 2008 bode well f

and mississippi, he won over 80% of the vote of older voters.erate and conservative democrats and black voters as well, across the board there. and in missouri, over 80% of democratic voters there, who said, they wanted a candidate who can unite the country chose the former vice president. >> and joe biden last night addressed supporters from the national constitution center in philadelphia where following nurm use primary victories he sounded like he had already become the democratic nominee. >> tonight, i want to speak to you from philadelphia where we announced our campaign at the front end. when we did our final announcement. to all those who have been knocked down, to all those who have been counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. just over a week ago, many of the pundits declared that this candidacy was dead. now, we're very much alive. [ cheers and applause ] and although, although there's a way to go, it looks like we're going to have another good night. as i said from the beginning, this election is one that has character on th

i believe that's mississippi. what q are theue story lines we should watch on the congressionalkly halines? bee>> that is a good question. focused so much on thetion to coronavirus and all of the other stuff going on in congress that i haven't been paying too som e much close attn to mississippi. last week during super tuesday there were some pretty good storylines from alabama, jeff sessions went off a couple of weeks, president trump going after jeff sessions in the middle of the coronavirus he had a little extra time to take a shot at him. >> daniel stress what were yourr biggest surprises last week on the congressional front and rigt anything we should be looking at out this week or next? >> itentnout would strongly enc anyone following the campaign right now to pay tension to black turnout. a states like mississippi is one where black turnout is key and democrats are really hoping that they can maintain thatlaba, momentum through the next fewpif contests. in mississippi like alabama, the black vote is really