Democrats was a lot of them looked at the prospect of nominating Bernie Sanders, said you know what, thats a risk we dont want to take and they looked around and said, you know what, joe biden is the best alternative. We are going with him. Do you agree or not . I do. He had assist with that. It did help imthat you that folks like Pete Buttigieg and amy klobuchar. This is our guy, he has the best shot. The field is clear and he is the alternative to bernie. Paul so is that plausible to you, dan, do you think that that is my theory or Something Else . I guess he got an assist from Mike Bloomberg and that moved him out in the view of democrats as alternative. Yes, the Democrat Party is a big interconnected institution. There were significant endorsements, jim clyburn, congressman from south carolina. Susan rice, formerly Barack Obamas chief of staff. Harry reid, harry reid called chief of staff and told him im sorry its nothing personal, its like the godfather. Paul its strictly business. Its strictly business and they finally realized that Bernie Sanders is an outlier. Hes not really a democrat and that the whole system of the Democratic Party, lawyers, urban machines, patronage and so far was going to be at risk if bernie became the nominee and so they just swept over to joe biden who is really a proxy for the Democratic Party. I think the democrats looked at what happened to republicans four years ago, paul, where an outside populist came in and they decided we dont want this to happen to our party and avowed socialist to come face of our party, we will not let that happened and we are also done indulging progressives out there. Thats not the way we will win in 2020. We will not win with promising free stuff and medicare for all, we will win back to try to get back swing voters in industrial midwest, suburban moms and joe biden is for doing that. Paul why were democrats able to pull this off and the republicans werent against donald trump . Now donald trump won so in the end it worked out for him. Because what kim mentioned because when klobuchar and buttigieg got out, they immediately turned around and backed an alternative to Bernie Sanders. The republicans did not do that 4 years ago and trump was able to go on state to state picking up plurality. Never winning the majority but enough to paul cruz and kasich. Beto orourke came out in texas which was a huge boost for him. Paul clear favorite to get the nomination Going Forward . Well, look, we are still going to have a competition but here is what joe biden comes out of super tuesday with, one is the strength of his coalition and it was quite remarkable if you looked at those exit polls. You know, he won over older voters, africanamerican voters, suburban women, centrist voters. This is really when you put together all of those groups, that is very formidable camp within the Democratic Party, and if you look ahead to states like the next big one is michigan, that electorate very much represents that coalition. Its a demographic very much like minnesota which joe biden just won or massachusetts which he won. So that gives them a lot going ahead and its harder to see a path now remarkably for Bernie Sanders. Paul and is that a more durable coalition than bernie which is young people, the Progressive Left and younger hispanics and African Americans . It appears to be. One of the take aways from super tuesday was all about turnout, the reality is, we have been talking about bernie support, Young Millennials for the better part of a year and they didnt vote in the percentage they did in 2016. Their turnout was low, yet turnout among suburban woman, that vote was very high. It does look like joe biden is appealing to a class of voters who actually do vote. Theres no real obvious way hes going to be able to get them to do that in the upcoming primaries. Paul a lesson for the Michael Bloomberg campaign . The Campaign Finance might want to give it a rest. They might want to. If you dont have the message, all the money in the world is not going to help you with voters. Thats the lesson for Michael Bloomberg and some steyer. Paul what did him in the end . Being unprepared in initial debates. There was no excuse for it and i also think that Elizabeth Warren was quite hard on him. Paul thank you all. Still ahead as the democratic race narrows to two, the democrats set their sights on tuesdays michigans primary and beyond, pollster takes us at Fisher Investments, we do things differently and other Money Managers dont understand why. Because our way works great for us but not for your clients. Thats why were a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. So, what do you provide . Cookie cutter portfolios . Nope. 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Paul with the democratic contest now at 2man race all eyes are on pivotal upcoming primaries. Voters head to the polls on tuesday in 6 states including delegaterich michigan followed by 4 primary contests the following week in florida, illinois, ohio and arizona. Here with a look at the landscape heading into the contests former clinton pollster mark penn, chairman of the harris poll. Welcome back, mark, good to see you. Have you ever seen a comeback like this by biden . I havent. Well, i have never seen anyone reemerge after not winning in iowa and new hampshire, the whole idea and the whole common Wisdom Within the democratic common is you have to win those, its impossible to come back and its the first time i have ever seen that coming now turned on its head. Who cares about iowa, who cares about new hampshire. [laughter] paul good point, so what what do you think happened . Was it that i think the democrats staired into the sanders candidacy and staid, no, not going to go there . No, there was a wave of fear of Bernie Sanders actually winning the nomination and coalescing then around former Vice President biden who, remember, had been the leader before so the momentum that sanders was getting was relatively short lived but everybody concluded, you know, probably from President Trump on down that the Democratic Party was headed for almost a suicidal run with Bernie Sanders as the likely nominee. Paul well, you know, its interesting that you mention the president. I wonder if it was a little too obvious and overt in indicating that he really did want to run against sanders. I think he could have done a better job Holding Cards close to his vest. Paul sanders has oneonone candidate said he coveted all along. Im not sure that he really did want that, but he says he did. Can he make a comeback and how does he do it . Well, i mean ive seen comebacks before in the later stage when i was working with hillary. We didnt win but we came back with 3 00 a. M. Ad in ohio, pennsylvania and texas, but to do that, sanders need a gamechanger . How is he going to get that . Hes going to get that likely through next debate. That debate is not happening before march tenth, that his only opportunity which is to crush to crush biden in the debate. If biden gets through that debate i think he has incredible by lead in florida and decided on the 17th, its over, its a wrap. Paul so that debate is on the 15th and what i guess youre talking about bidens vulnerability maybe being performance. Hell be on the stage for 90 points or maybe longer, oneonone and so he wont just be able to break in and different, you know, and a minute here and a minute there and bernie like to go after him in a big way. Is that bidens biggest vulnerability now . Well, i think thats the only chance really that that biden has oneonone to catch this incredible momentum that hes got built up. I think biden will be in the bloomberg chair, right, if he does a better job in that chair which remember he was Vice President. Hes been through this a zillion times. All he has to do is kind of keep his demeanor, sharpen his message and remember hit the theme that got him there which is that sanders cant be elected president. You may like him, you may he may have good ideas but he cant be elected president. Thats what got him there. Sanders has to take him down. Its going to be fascinating, wellwatched debate. I predict biden will probably come through and go to the nomination, but thats sanders only real chance here. Paul sanders unveiled new series of contrast issues on the around the super tuesday hitting him, hitting biden for cutting Social Security and medicare, hitting him for supporting disastrous trade agreements and hitting him for supporting iraq war and hitting him for bankruptcy bill. Do you see any real is that enough . Are those issues enough . Like take trade in michigan to turn the tide . Not really. Sanders has to broaden his coalition. Really if you look at it first turns out that Democrat Voters as ive been saying for a long time are a lot more moderate than you could tell from congress or the press or the general actions of aoc and the squad and those older, more moderate voters combined with Africanamerican Community are an incredible coalition, Winning Coalition and sanders has to break into that coalition. Attacking biden on the issues i dont think the going to get him there. Its not going to get him the growth that he needs to overcome what is otherwise a jugger nod at this point. Sanders is saying im for the working person, biden represents the corporate elite and billionaires, so where is what part of bidens coalition is he trying to carve into when he makes those kind of attacks . Well, hes trying to get the mid western working class votes back but biden is just really well liked. They have an association with him that really sanders despite rhetoric about working has really never been able to achieve. He has gotten a constituency driven by young people and millennials and quite the opposite who brought onto free college. So its a little late for him to try to try to do that and he has no road into the Africanamerican Community, but he does have a substantial vote in the latino community, but its a its a losing coalition as we see kind of dramatically even with warren because bloomberg also got out unless he can reach over and really score some points here. Paul all right, mark penn, thank you very much, with Elizabeth Warren out of the race can Bernie Sanders stage a comeback and which candidate would President Trump really rather face in november . I would like to win. I would im your mother in law. And i like to question your every move. Like this left turn. Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . 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We are back with Dan Henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. So dan, only 40 of the democrat delegates are chosen, room for bernie to come back . Yeah, by definition theres room for bernie to come back and the question is there room out there in the democratic electorate for bernie to grow his vote beyond what he has . Its not as though bernie is falling off the clip, hes still competitive but hes not winning and you need to grow voter up higher than his producing. You to give senator sanders credit as he just said in that clip, this is about a difference in ideas and how to go forward with, you know, politics in this country and bernie is proposing medicare for all, basically nationalized health care and other things, free tuition. Joe biden to be done incrementally. Both of them are pretty out a pretty distinct separate visions to democratic voters and so far those voters have been going for joe biden. Paul results not a revolution. Right, the problem for sanders even where hes winning hes underperforming. He was counting on big wins in texas and california on super tuesday. Lost texas. The the win in california was much narrower, much tighter than he expected and could get tighter still as the votes come in. You know, we talk a lot about how trump benefited from antihillary clinton sentiment in 2016, but Bernie Sanders also benefited from anticlinton sentiment in 2016, and now that shes not in the race we can see that. We can see that that people have other alternatives besides Bernie Sanders and theyre going with them and i think that is showing up now in underperformance. Paul kim, what about the risks for the biden candidacy Going Forward. Democrats have pushed all their chips here, establishment on biden, what are the risks of performance, for example, in the next period . Well, just watch the tapes over the last couple of weeks, paul, i think the risks are fairly large in some ways. You know, it is this remarkable thing that we have an essence the democratic nomination coming down to two guys who are nearly always has been prone to stumbles and prones to gaffes, almost a hallmark of his career. The question how much of that at this point is tied up in his age and there have been some real questions in the last couple of weeks about some of his slips. So, yeah, they may well have decided on biden as their frontrunner but the reason they did is because they think hes more electable than Bernie Sanders and thats a big bet to be taking as Going Forward. Paul you know, i think donald trump didnt intended but he helped joe biden because he was so obvious in almost begging for Bernie Sanders to be nominated. Hes still trying to meddle. Its being stolen from bernie. Yeah, i agree with that, the primaries werent decided not by endorsements but voters. Voters are out there paying attention and if youre Democrat Voter and primary metric is defeat donald trump and trump wants to run against Bernie Sanders, go to biden. [laughter] paul what about Elizabeth Warren, jason, last summer she was in the front, what happened . I think Bernie Sanders was running as visionary. I know where i want to take the country, i dont care about the details. They tripped her up when she put a spotlight on her numbers. Continue get her math right. People noticed and they lost track of her, of her vision. So i think that that got the better of her, but i also agree that the party is not as liberal as the Elizabeth Warrens, aocs, the rest of the squad would have us believe. I think theres a pragmatic democratic vote out there and theyre still in the majority right now despite the Media Attention that the progressives get. Paul kim, briefly, do you think joe biden has a message that can beat donald trump . I think hes got a message that is the best one to give democrats a shot at beating donald trump and hes gotten better in the last couple of days. Hes retooled his stump speech and talking a lot about unity and sort of practical progressivism as it were, something that will resinate with a lot of democrats and maybe centrist american voters. Paul all right, thank you all, still ahead as the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow Health Officials across the country race to stop the spread. We will take a closer look at just how prepared the united its surprising how the bigger a city gets. The smaller it starts to feel. Which makes it even more surprising, how big it feels in here. With sliding rear seats. And more available second row legroom than say. A chevy suburban. This is the completely reimagined 2020 ford escape. I cant believe it. That chad really was raised by wolves . Which one is your mother . Thats her right there. Oh, gosh. 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Joseph health. She overseas patient care including the one in Washington State that treated the very first person infected with coronavirus here in the united states. Welcome, doctor, good to have you here. Thank you for having me. Paul so i think a lot of americans are wondering if they come down with flulike symptoms or a cold, what do they do . Do they rush to the hospital and get tested or just go home . No, they definitely want to call somebody first ideally, so their doctors office, local emergency room. Theres also online tools that can help you work through symptoms of the regular cold, if its flu, symptoms of coronavirus and help figure out kind of triage because unfortunately while we are ramping up the capacity to test for coronavirus, we dont have enough to test everybody thats worried. We really need to call it down to those who have higher odds of actually having the infection. So if a doctor is doing that, listening to the patient described the symptoms, when do you how do you know when that person really does need to be tested or come in for a hospital or when to take aspirin, get some rest and fluids and we will talk to you in a couple of days . Yeah, the biggest risks right now having been exposed to somebody known to be infected or highrisk areas and also what most of the state Health Departments are asking for right now is that you test negative for influenza. If you have a cough, shortness of breath, fever, those are the big symptoms, then we go on and test you for covid. Its not the entire world with everybody with a sneezing and coughing, allergy season. It really is fever, cough, shortness of breath. Paul you mentioned a shortage of test kits but the cdc and the administration did open up testing at academic hospitals and laboratories around the country. Is that a big help and is that going to allow you to ramp up testing significantly . It will be, it have been it will be absolutely. We are in the process of ramping up but not yet. Several medical centers have inhome developed tests. Our Health System is developing inhome test to big reference labs that lots of systems used in the country, are launching their test this week and next week, so that capacity will open up, so we are getting there, we are almost there and we will be able to do significantly more testing than we are today. Paul okay, for most patients who think they may have coronavirus or tested positive, home quarantine do for the 14 days, is that going to likely be enough or what kind of percentages are you talking about where people who might have who would have to be hospitalized . So the steps are still evolving. We dont know the mortality rate and the hospitalization rate in china upwards like 20 of people needed to be hospitalized. Paul wow. We are identifying all people with the mild infections and so there was a denominator problem. We just didnt know the whole world of as who was infected. As we figure out who has mild infections, the numbers will continue to go down. Right now estimates in the u. S. , maybe around 5 of people who get this infection will need to be hospitalized and about 1 to 2 , about 1 and a half would need to be actually in an icu kind of setting because of the severity of the illness. Paul if we work in a corporate environment like most persons do and you get a coworker who is tested positive for the virus and maybe was in the office for some time without knowing it before the symptoms showed up, what has to happen in that work space . Does everybody who work there have to go home and then you scrub down the environment to to make sure that that you eliminate the virus . That would be the goal and we call that social distinction and people who have been exposed isolate themselves so they cant go on and expose other people. You want to dis infect the surfaces. Its unclear how long the virus can live in the surface, could be up to 90 days. Paul okay. All right. Thats significant disruption for a lot of people in the workplace. All right, what do you do to protect hospital workers because obviously theyre in the front lines here . Do you have special protocols to protect them . We absolutely have special protocols and as we saw again in china healthcare workers are at risk and so most coronavirus and we are hoping that we get to this point with this coronavirus, we used something called droplet precautions where we where we used the masks, mask that is need special fitting as well as gloves and gowns. If we are doing anything thats airborne, throat swab, things that we do in health care, we use airborne precautions. You start seeing people in those higherlevel masks and using negativepressure rooms. Right now its a little complicated because the cdc in atlanta and the World Health Organization differ in precaution levels and so its sending mixed messages to the Healthcare Community and so we are hoping that we can get that reconciled in the very near term. Paul all right, one or two things that you would say you need, the highest priority from government in washington and Health Officials, what would they be . Testing kits and personnel protection equipment, pte. Maria what about masks . If you go to the hospital, if you need care, you want somebody there to receive you. [laughter] you dont want somebody who has been kept at home because they are potentially infectious. Paul all right, doctor, very helpful. Appreciate it. The fed cuts Interest Rates by a half point as President Trump slows up payroll tax cut, can fiscal and economic policies help mitigate the economic fallout from the coronavirus . I like middle income tax cuts. It all starts with an invitation. 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Well, i think theres still so little so much we dont know about the virus. So one of the things is that companies are going to try to remain normal as they can, hoping that maybe the warmer weather and, you know, the decrease in china and new infections is going to mean that its going to pass. Yes, we are going to have difficulty for a Second Quarter because of the supply chains but that its not going to be a longterm problem. Paul okay, lets turn to powell. You told us last week you didnt think we needed Federal Reserve rate cuts, we got them. Are they going help . Turns out i was right. [laughter] we got this big cut and the market immediately sold off. Paul the stock market . The stock market. This is really a problem that cannot be solved by rate cuts and even more so when rates are already very low. I mean, theyre ridiculously low. Im talking about the real rate also which factors in a little bit of inflation we have. But if you look at that, why does anybody think that we are going to suddenly have, the ideas that companies that get into trouble are going to have access to lower cost financing, right, but theres also a cost, you cant help some groups without hurting others and you have a lot of people on fixed income, savers that use their income for consumption. Youre hurting them at the same time youre supposedly helping businesses. Paul are you worried at all when the bond market that is going where it is, you the 10year treasury now under 1 historic lows and above actually what the fed fund rate is now, inverted yield curve which a lot of people says its a sign that you the fed has to cut further . Well, first of all, yes i am worried. I cant sleep at night. I think we have a big problem but i dont think its the same classic problem weve always had because we are not in the same environment that weve always been in before. I mean, you have a huge amount of access reserves, Something Like 1. 5 trillion still sitting on the fed balance sheet. Paul reserves that they put on banks. If we are interested in getting banks to lend more, why are they paying excess reserves unless theres a problem in the Banking System that nobody is telling us about here. The head of the Health World Organization keeps saying that with coronavirus we are in unchartered territory, we dont know its going to last in hot weather. I would say we are heading into unchartered territory. They are trying to adjust to the reality of the coronavirus as mary was just describing. The idea that you do traditional stimulus, spending a lot of money, traditional rate cut and this would not have unexpected effects on the markets, i mean, banks, for instance, have got themselves hedged on Interest Rates and extraordinarily complex ways right now and theyre trying to adjust day by day to whats going on and i think pushing all of the liquidity into the market all of a sudden can produce an effect that we cant anticipate. Paul all right, neither of you like monetary stimulus, what about fiscal stimulus. Lets spend 300 million. They design their lives and their spending around that, if all of a sudden you put money in their pocket that they know is temporary, they dont necessarily go out and spend that, they do something with that thats different than the regular spending and to get people to actually change their spending i think you need to basically give them a permanent tax cut, not just money in their pocket for a couple of weeks. Maria i wouldnt mind a permanent tax cut, dan, i dont think we are going to get one. Everything will be temporary. It is going to be temporary. Weve said on this program before, the Trump Administration wanted to do something to help the economy as exist it right now it would be reduce or eliminating a lot of the tariff imposed as on china. Some of the biggest problems are trade with china and shipping goods across the atlantic and the pacific with you. Paul i agree with you but he wont do it. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer under fire with regard to comment. The minority leader threatened two associate justices of the u. S. Supreme justices of the u. S. Supreme court, ive always loved seeing whats next. And im still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. So if theres a better treatment than warfarin, ill go for that. Eliquis. Eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. 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Schumer took to the Senate Floor Thursday to address the controversy saying that he shouldnt have used the words he did but denying that he was making a threat and accusing republicans of manufacturing outrage. We are back with Dan Henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. Jason, manufactured outrage. The senator was clearly out of line. I think he knows it. Even the American Bar Association which is leftwing Advocacy Group said they fundament disturbing, so i think that tells you a lot right there but i think its part of a pattern of democrats increasingly attacking the court as an institution, paul. Dianne feinstein that it undermined legitimacy of the court. We heard talking about passing the court, expanding the size all because the left simply doesnt like the makeup of the court these days. I think what we saw from senator schumer is part of a pattern. Paul so do you agree, dan that this wasnt just a slip but excessive in rhetoric but basically attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the Supreme Court . They are, indeed, and they have been doing it for same time. The statement was out of character for him. Senator schumer doesnt really talk like that. I think its all politics as local. The senator understands that in 2022 hes probably going get a primary threat from alexandria ocasiocortez in new york. [laughter] hes trying to protect from the leftlike and in a state of new york thats moving left, not very wellknown candidate challenging 34 of the vote, more than nothing. So i think the senator is acutely aware back home that he has to fend off aoc and that pressure and thats causing him to sign onto their view of the courts. Paul kim, let me ask you about the contrast of schumers comments with some of the president made on twitter where he said to that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and sonia sotomayor, two liberal justices should recuse themselves from my cases involving his administration because the implication is they are biased against him, are the two statements comparable . No, they are not comparable. Look, by the way i wish he hadnt asked them to recuse because they are not going to recuse. Its never going to happen. He wasnt threatening anybody. He was trying to make the case that that ginsburg in particular had said statement that is judges shouldnt make about him that certainly bring to question the legitimacy of her impartiality. So he was pointing that out, but this is different. What democrats, what schumer did is threaten the court, if you dont rule the way we want you to, then we will change your makeup, we will pack the court, we will impose term limits and this is a very aggressive strategy, youve seen it in brief with the Supreme Court, senator from rhode island who said basically the same thing last year, this is part of a broader strategy. Paul he more or less defended schumer and attacked critics saying they dont have an argument. Yeah, ultimately its a gift for donald trump. One of the reasons that people voted for him was future of the Supreme Court. Paul but you know what, jason, what bothers me as a citizen hyper overpoliticization either from the right or the left, people say i cant trust the law and they take it into their own hands, its very dangerous. Part of the problem here is congress abandoning its responsibility and throwing a lot at the courts and thats not their job to play in this political arena. Congress should be doing a better job with this but the left is worried if trump may be reelected, he may very well get picks for Supreme Court. Hes appointed close to 200 judges and theyre scared, theyre scared right now. If you dont like the makeup of the court you win presidency and you win control senate and thats the oldfashion way to do it. Paul one more break, when as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. At liberty butchemel. Cut. Liberty mu. Line . Cut. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. Cut. Liberty m. Am i allowed to riff . What if i come out of the water . Liberty biberty. Cut. Well dub it. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Can we go get some ice cream . Alright, we gotta stop here first. 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Our modern culture tends to admire startup entrepreneur but jack welch was Something Else. When he started at ge it was a 70yearold beast of a company, yet he revitalized it. He got rid of poorly performing units, demanded more productivity out of employees. He was a benchmark, the Gold Standard and yet the other thing, paul, more importantly, he did a great deal for ge shareholders and employees and the economy overall. Paul all right. Jason. Chris matthews recently lost his job as a host on msnbc. According to reports he was flirting with guests and used overthetop nazi comparisons. Im going to miss him on the air, he was a straight shooter, Old School Democrat who didnt like the progression of his party. He was willing to tell audiences what he believed, regardless of whether they wanted to hear it. Paul mary. This is a miss for the Chinese Communist dictator ship which sentenced a book seller from hong kong to 10 years in jail. This guy was selling books in hong kong that spread stories about different communist party leaders, they didnt like it. They tried grabbing him when he was in thailand for a while. Now theyve got him again and theyre putting him away for 10 years. Paul dan. I was going to give a miss to the ridiculousness of early voting in primary. But we have a bigger fiasco in california. A lot of it broke down, causing people to have to stand in line for hours, assuming they could find out where they were supposed to votea vote at all. The progressives put this in place so their people were able to vote, in effect they disenfranchised their own voters. Paul if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us. Thats it for this weeks show. Thanks to my panel. Thanks a all of you for watching. Im paul gigot, hope to see you all here next week. Wonderful weekend. Maria bartiromo wall street is next. Welcome to the program that analyze the week that was and that helps position you for the week ahead. Happy weekend everybody. I am Maria Bartiromo thank you for joining us. Coming up in a few moments the founder of Value Capital jeff oven is Trevor Milton they are going to talk about the electric market and this electric truck makers merger news thatll take the Company Public later this year. We will also talk investing with jeff oven has been a tremendous investor after whats been a wild week on wall street verso bst
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