A look at the week ahead in washington and to do that this week we are joined by Daniel Strauss, a senior political reporter with the guardian and steve dennis, reporter with bloomberg. Now that supplemental is passed, the money is on his way out the door, what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to the coronavirus p what should we look for on that front . Talking aboutre assorted other things to get done. Everything from paid sick leave for workers, a quarter of the workers the United States on have sick leave and there sort of other things they want including making sure testing is free, the treatments are affordable, that sort of thing. It will be interesting to see if they can get any of this on the floor this week. Theres a lot of other things going on this week. With markets plunging this morning and all the futures, you might hear more talk of doing some kind of stimulus. The last time we had this market shock was 2008. Remember what happened then. There were some emergency things nancy pelosi and george bush worked out back then, things like tax cuts. Theres always been talking about that in the administration. Theres been some talk on capitol hill but even if you days ago i spoke to the finance chairman and asked him are you considering a big payroll tax cut for example and he said not yet. I think there will be a lot of talk about that and also about congresss own security. We have two members who are not showing up this week. Ted cruz saying he will self quarantine in texas so he wont be here voting. Congress is supposed to be here this week and then out next week and then come back for a few weeks, its a real question if they will continue their normal schedule, the normal routine. If you think about it, members of the senate, they are sort of the target demographic for people who shouldnt be on airplanes. Haveare older folks, some do Underlying Health conditions. They go to 435 districts and fly back and forth this week. Millions of americans come every year. Right now they there are no major changes to the schedule. Votes are scheduled to go on as usual. Potentialare some tough decisions that have to be made. Host on that, how do you expect to hear more about that especially considering what happened to markets overnight and where they could be opening today. Guest its hard for congress to react quickly. Time, lasttakes some week i talked to the chairman of the Appropriations CommitteeRichard Shelby about the possibility of a stimulus package given the shock to the economy or potential shock and he said there hadnt been a lot of talk about that but if it were up to him, something on infrastructure would make sense. Congress has been negotiating a package off and on for years. The big problems how to pay for it. Right now we have the lowest Interest Rates weve ever had under 1 for the 30 year bond. Its the kind of thing you could get done potentially but when you negotiate who gets what project, thats not something you will get done this week but you could talk about that sort of thing. Host coronavirus in the campaign trail. Impacts on candidates events and what are you hearing about in the states in the super tuesday two states. Guest its hard to tell impacts on schedules only because right to there is a mad dash recalibrate for michigan in the primary there which is a must win for Bernie Sanders and a lot of the strategies ive talked to say the joe biden has the advantage in. But it is unusual for Something Like coronavirus or a disease or Something Like that to become a trending topic within any campaign. But thats what we are seeing. Its such a prevailing issue that it is eclipsing other topics like i guess you would say the economy or in the democratic primary, how to beat trump. This is now becoming the number one issue on the campaign trail. Host do we know at this pointer is it too soon to know about the impact last week on super tuesday in terms of turnout, anecdotal stories of people not going to the polls . , the about a week ago feeling was the coronavirus was a little more contained than it is now in the longer it goes on the more it will be in the more it will affect turnout in these upcoming states. Host as weve learned what a difference a week can make. You said must win in michigan for Bernie Sanders, why . Guest in 2016 this was a state that bernie one and it really reinvigorated his campaign at that point in the cycle or even he himself didnt think he was going to win the state when he was told by his wife, he was very surprised. This time around it seems biden has gained and continues to gain a large amount of momentum within the Democratic Party and there is a question over whether the folks who voted for sanders and 2016 were really just voting against Hillary Clinton or for sanders. Host the numbers of reviewers to call in. Lots to talk about. Thats why we have an hourlong roundtable. Bloomberg,s with Daniel Strauss of the guardian this morning. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. In, idaho,e calling michigan, mississippi, missouri, north dakota and Washington Holding their primaries this week. Only one of those states is also Holding Congressional primaries tomorrow, i believe that is mississippi. What are the storylines we should watch on the congressional front out of mississippi . Guest thats a good question. Frankly have been focused so much on the coronavirus and all the other stuff going on in congress i havent 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 folks to Pay Attention to bernie the mayordorsement who is a rising star within the Democratic Party from decided to and he endorse Bernie Sanders. The importance here is that the mayors sort of rose to prominence within the state with support from the Bernie Sanders constellation of outside groups. Not every Group Kennedy right now was on the ballot in the countries doing that. And that is an important thing to watch the contest ahead. 7 00ry booker just after announcing his endorsement of the former Vice President. Will it make a difference . Guest there has been a pile on of endorsements for the former Vice President biden so at this point its hard to tell the influence of that. The growing support that Vice President biden is enjoying right now. Elizabeth warren did not endorse Bernie Sanders. Someone who is naturally host she has not ruled it out. Guest this is a fight for number one, not number two. When the other team is getting a lot of endorsements from other candidates will dropped out and bernie is not and the one person who is most aligned with some of his policies is not endorsing and there is no indication he will do the next couple of days, these contests, michigan is must win. Seniort Jesse Jackson endorsing him and he won the minute michigan primarily he was running for president. Think is dont you a reason why we are hearing those endorsements coming out now from the biden camp . Puttinge is sorting together this team of rivals type of approach and adding slivers of the democratic electorate, the democratic with thement and monopolizing the coverage is can be hard to change the dynamic if youre Bernie Sanders so he has to get on the ground. But as the strength of his campaign. He has a Great Network of people on the ground and they will have to pull through for him. You a lot of callers for two. Bobby in louisiana, republican, your up first. Thank you for taking my call. Beingms like america is affected by a lot of stuff right now. It seems like the strange to me that soon after the Democratic Party made a comment about how trump would lose if the coronavirus struck america, the next week we start hearing about the coronavirus rising in america. Now as far as the Democratic Party is concerned, god is not going to bless america as long as you have a party that is encouraging abortion, murdering against, thats marriage reproducing people on the earth, that would be the marriage of samesex couples. Coverage of the coronavirus, the caller brings up, there is this editorial cartoon in todays u. S. Daytoday. Its a pollster asking the resident who do you think is the best chance to be donald trump in the 2020 election, biden or bernie and they answer saying the coronavirus. Now this is a pressing problem for the Trump Administration more so. We are seeing markets vacillate and a growing sense of fear among americans about this virus. Would say this is the more pressing concern right now then trying to game out or spoil the democratic primary. President also the probably is chief calling cards about the economy. On the plummet up 3. 5 . Another good jobs report. Based on indicator early february before people start going to costco and cleaning out. Because they were worried they would be stuck in their homes for weeks. But the markets taking it. Recession,p with a the history is not great for president s who are running for reelection in the middle of a recession whether its his fault or not, whether he couldve done something differently or not, it becomes an overhang and you also have there is some turmoil at the white house. Youve a new chief of staff, the last chief of staff was of the cpac conference saying this was a media creation going after trump with the coronavirus. He is no longer the chief of staff and now we have people who attended cpac like ted cruz who wont be coming to congress this week because they are self quarantining. Ted cruz is not a liberal media creation. He is a conservative republican from texas. When to expect here from mark meadows and his first comments a heck of talk about a first test is the new chief of staff for President Trump, show up in the markets are tanking, bond yields of the lowest theyve ever been by far droppedt, oil prices gasyesterday, youve got a price war between saudi arabia and russia that has implications for the oil patch. You got airlines worried no one wants to buy airline tickets. You get the Tourism Industry under stress and there are no great options, there arent a lot of cheap options other than to do as best you can against this virus and even then theres been some hick ups getting testing kits out there. One of the reasons people just dont know how bad it is or not is we havent been able to test everybody. We have been able to get those done and out there quickly enough. That is something thats a concern every day when there is another closeddoor briefing, the senators say i wish they had done this weeks ago as far as the testing. And so this is going to continue to be an issue ended something mark meadows, at least get to say ive got the mess on my hands of got to clean it up but its a huge test for him. Host mary out of annapolis, maryland, democrat. Caller good morning. I wanted to find out, no one is really talked about the implication of the administration and the gop with regards to the aca and how they down,arted pulling defunding, creating issues with regards to communities around the country and no one talked about that impact and that kind of thing. Could you tell me a little bit about whats been done to ramp up, if anything, those communities that have been defunded . This 8 billion package includes about 1 billion for state and local response efforts. There was money in there for Community Health centers which were bolstered by the Affordable Care act. Is a holder for funding and vaccines. That is something that will probably come further down the line. Administration is trying to overturn a large chunk of the Affordable Care act in court. That is still before the courts, that would include a lot of protections in the law that you would have to replace and there is no action on capitol hill to replace those. One of the things the democrats and pointing out, if you have an Affordable Care act preventive care, its generally free. So that is something they have been talking about but there are a lot of people without coverage. Millions and people millions of people, will they get free vaccines or will those be too expensive for them . Other treatments will they be able to get those. If they go to a hospital and get a test, will the be charged thousands for the test. These are things there try to put funding in this bill, but it sounds get a lot of money, we spend trillions on health care each year and we have a 20 trillion economy. Its a small amount. Host i want to talk about aca on the campaign trail, give some more numbers to the callers. The Washington Post story today on liberal Health Agency over the years. Local Public Health agencies have lost about a quarter since 2008 according to the National Association, health officials, the main source of federal funding, emergency. This budget has been cut 30 back in 2003 when the trouble ministration per boat and the troubled ministers and is proposed cutting that even further. The next segment will have the chief medical officer of the National Association of unity Health Centers on. What it means for the campaign. Guest this is probably the longest trending debate within the democratic primary which is what to do about the aca. More moderate candidates, joe biden, amy klobuchar, a few others have all argued for basically building and reinforcing the aca. The policy progression right now is medicare for all leading to an bigger overhaul the Health Care System. Then during president obamas administration. That has not gone away. Right now, former Vice President joe biden is sort of the standard bearer for a more moderate approach of reinforcing the aca thats partially because he is trying to tie himself more closely to president obama and the Obama Administration. On the others, Bernie Sanders, the most liberal candidate in this field at any point in time in the 2020 race has argued for medicare for all and this gigantic overhaul of the Health Care System. Down to two shrinks candidates i think that will be a trending debate topic going forward. Host in the next debate is. Guest thats good to be in arizona. Host on sunday. We do not expect tall see gabbard. Guest we do not. The new debate rules exclude her from being on stage. Host apparently they will be seated or standing. Will that give someone an advantage . Guest joe biden probably likes sitting. He did in the Vice President ial debates. He was sitting for lease one of those. Guest they are both in their 70s, they probably like sitting. That format presubmitting questions for this. Guest both candidates have done town halls multiple times. I dont think thats incredibly different. You see candidates less of a chance to filibuster so i think we will see some more direct contact with these candidates and voters. Host steve dennis, Bloomberg Senate reporter. Daniel strauss of the guardian, senior political reporter. You can call from would like brian did from woodbridge, virginia. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. I was in a talk about the election first. Care, medicareh for all would solve every problem thats occurring with the Health Care System addressing this pandemic with the virus. Intact told be fully contain the pandemic. Host why do you think that . Caller because it addresses all the obstacles in the health care that is put all the problems that need to be is solved that the aca partially solves. Doesntr health care solve it all. Host give mean example some of those obstacles. Caller the people that cant afford certain things, cant get care. With medicare for all, everyone would be able to get tested and all of would be intact because the money would be already there. Waiting for everyone to access it. We wouldnt have to worry about trying to access it. It would be in place where as now we have to go procure it in the manufacturing costs have been outsourced because a private has profit concerns. Who are you an independent voted the virginia primary last week . Caller yes sir i certainly did end on that topic there, most of the people doing the initial election when