Good day, everyone. President trump is trying to persuade millions of americans that are worried that the coronavirus will not be a longterm problem, but the dow taking another nose dive at the second straight volatile week, investors seeking a safe haven in bonds, but the benchmark tenine seeking beloud 1 . And in many ways hes worse than bernie. He has a lot of people. Hes not going to be running anything. Joining me now, cohost kristin welk. And jonathan la mere. And ashley parker, and chris wheeler, former senior white house aide to barack obama. Welcome all. Kristin welker, the president taking on the democrats, but the Democrats Campaign has clarified a lot with the departure they changed with what brings focusing on the midwest, and its a twoperson race, and its remarkable we saw those scheduled changes from Bernie Sanders, essentially saying hes going to focus on the midwest, the fact that he did so well in psychopsycho, and you are seeing President Trump really struggle to shi
Sanders. And he must be defeated. Tragically, we have a president today who is a pathological liar and who is running a corrupt administration. He clearly does not understand the constitution of the United States and thinks that he is a president who is above the law. In my view, he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a religious bigot, and he must be defeated, and i will do everything in my power to make that happen. Last night, obviously, was not a good night for our campaign from a delegate point of view. We lost in the largest state up for grabs yesterday, the state of michigan. We lost in mississippi, missouri, and idaho. On the other hand, we won in north dakota and we lead the vote count in the state of washington, the second largest state contested yesterday, with 67 of the votes having been counted. We are a few thousand votes on top. What became even more apparent yesterday is that while we are currently losing the delegate count, approximately 800 delegates f
This is cnn tonight im don lemon. We have a busy hour coming up. Here are the headlines. Coronavirus spreading around the world and across the United States. Now at least 723 cases in the u. S. And that tally is rising sharply by the day. A nationwide shut down in italy as the country tries to get the coronavirus outbreak under control more than 9,000 people in italy have contracted the virus and some 463 have died. Wall street is rattled by the worldwide spread of the out break. Dow jones losing more than 2,000 points today. Its the worst one day point drop since the financial crisis in 2008. Well hear from one expert and the warning. Is the Trump Administration doing enough to battle the out break. President announcing he is concerned about the virus impact on the economy and ready to take action. We are going to be asking tomorrow were seeing the senate. Going to be meeting with the house republicans. Mitch mcconnell and everybody. And discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief
Berlin, shanghai and rome. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im christine romans. Im laura jarrett. Its thursday, march 12th here in new york. Breaking overnight, President Trump taking drastic steps to curb the spread of coronavirus in the United States. Hes faced plenty of criticism for not doing enough as the number of u. S. Cases nears 1300. The president delivered an Oval Office Address. In some sense acknowledging the gravity of the situation finally, yet at the same time mischaracterizing his own policies even though he was reading from a teleprompter. He put the blame for global problems squarely on countries over seas. He falsely claimed insurers would waf copays for treatment and he failed to give any real update on testing nationwide and how hospitals would deal with overcrowding. The president s boldest move sharply restricting travel to the u. S. For more than 2 dozen European Countries. To keep new cases from entering o
State Emergency Declarationdec. Organizeres have postponed the Boston Marathon and the masters have cancelled. Travel restrictions is set to begin tonight at 11 59 p. M. Banning travelers from dozens of European Countries and rerouting flights for medical screening. The administration announcing steps to testing. As all of this plays out, we are learning President Trump is likely to declare a National Emergency when we speaks a little later this afternoon. I want to bring in Cnns Kaitlan Collins looifr frive from the w house. Reporter it would be the president declaring an Emergency Declaration under the stafford act. With the National Emergency, thats when you saw the president do when he wanted to use the funds to build the border wall. This activates fema and unlock resources that states dont have right now. Thats something we heard him going through the vetting process. They are figuring out all the details of that. We are hearing thats something the president will do today. He say