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 shift his focus back to joe biden. Andrea, hes trying to figure out, how for i attack . First it was hunter biding with his business dealings, not to say that wont be an issue 67 but now hes trying to make the argument that joe biden is to the left of Bernie Sanders. Who say, look, thats not necessarily the way to go after joe biden. Of course, hi chief argument is the economy, and we know the administration is quite concerned not only by the virus and their response to it and how they are going to navigate but how theyre going to , how are they shifting the focus that we see on these rallies. Shifting back to biden now, it seems, as kristin was gist alluding to, the real questions about his handling of that, weve seen the economy. It would be a real blow they were are even though there is some effect how he could play pretty well, perhaps upper midwest states, they felt like he could be out of the threats, the president using the worse communist recently. Thats a much harder sell who has a long track record. As a trump adviser pointed out this week, get used to hunter biden being brought back. Theres worry in the white house, am enboldened biden. The president is trying to win away, even at small margins this time around that biden is someone who is well known, is popul popular, can win back some workingclass voters. But then switched to trump in 2016. If biden can combined that increased turnout from 2016 with some of those workingclass voters, he will be tough to beat and the white house is indeed a little nervous. And this is after they tried to stir the pot by suggesting that the democrats were trying to steal it from bernie, trying to create more cases on in the democratic field. Ashley parker, Elizabeth Warrens departure was emotional and striking, a lot of women reacted, and well talk about that later in the program, but what she said last night to Rachel Maddow about biden, both competing for her endorsement. Let me hear what she had to say first about joe biden. He is exactly at least this is my view he is exactly who he says he is. He is a decent guy, and i mean that in the good, of decency. It comes through in pretty much everything he does. And so despite the policy differences, she ways praising his character basically. This is what she had to say when rachel asked about the berniebros, the supporters so aggressive in attacking not only her and her campaign, but her supporters. I want to say this for all the candidates, because when there were lots of us. We are responsible for the people who claim to be our supporters and do really threatening, ugly, Dangerous Things to others. Its a particular problem with sansers supporters . It is. It just is. She asked if they had talked about it, and she said yesterday, and she said what was his reaction . And the answer was very short. Pretty raw. And where her supporters will go. Theyre trying to read the tea leaves. If you watch senator warning, shes very clear about what she wants to do and when she wants to do it. I think if and when she is ready to endorse, we will all know, but for people reading the tea leaves, i do think thats sort of a leaf or two, and when she talked about joe biden and his decency and character, one thing that stood out is she was picking up on something that the voters had picked up on with joe biden. Even when he was struggles and people werent sure he was going to win because there were a lot of you would still always hear this sense he was a good guy, a decent times, and at times his campaign felt Like Group Therapy in managing his own grief, and him helping other people manage grief, and i think that was something that senator warren was tapping into in her response last night. What about milwaukee, the fact that it went their relative strength, more likely there will be more combat, surely, and no one clearly far enough head to limit you are a super delegate. I am, and trust me, i dont want to be the one to make this decision. I not only we have michigan next tuesday, but we have another president ial debate in nine days. Theyll jab at each other for the next nine days, but to see them going at it will be critical. We have other important states like arizona and florida in march. You go binto april, battlegroun states. And wins authorities key states in november in the primaries i think will be a critical test. When we talk about the other states, michigan so important. Sanders canceled being in mississippi, which would obviously by in bidens court. Hes going to michigan, staying there to try to shore up his base in michigan, which he narrowly won over had be Hillary Clinton four years ago. He said one of the problems i solved is i saved the Auto Industry in michigan and hell be riding that while he goes to mississippi trying to pad his lead a by. In florida Bernie Sanders does have problems with his praise for some aspects of the castro regime, the way he declined the invitation to apec, he said something suggesting that their policies toward the palestinians were racist and he would never appear there im really paraphrasing. It was aggressive, not well and had an impact in florida. Like all of these states with an aging population, they will argue about who will better save social security. Bernie sanders has shown an ability to get a turnout with latino voters, but by the time we getting to that point, just because of the way the delegates are allocated. Its going to be hard for somebody to catch a leader, just given the twoperson race right now. Bent upsanders team, jeff weaver, he was part of the transition commission. I was as well. So that was to remedy the problems where he felt he had been robbed by the clinton established forces, the previous cycle. Right you. So now the fix is, super delegates dont get to vote until a second ballot. Right. But he has switched a position as to a simple plurality. I would argue frankly whether its senator sanders or Vice President biden in the lead, with a plurality, not a majority, i dont think they automatically clinch it. I think theyll have to make a case to the delegates from other candidates as well, who is the better positioned one in november. I always thought you were super, but never a super delegate. Very well special. Thank you. Well be watching you tomorrow kristin, youll be tomorrow coaveragering user regular gig on saturdays. Thank you so much. Thank you. Ashley parker and of course thank to jonathan, and coming up, stuck at sea with thousands left on board. Dozens showing symptoms of the coronavirus. Will we see more confirmed cases. Thats the real test. Well come back in a moment with more on that. 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Joining miss is dr. Frank esper at Cleveland Clinic childrens and rebecca cast, from georgetown university. Good to see you both. Dr. Fauci in this sea of uncertainty is the credible voice of authority. In that interview today, he was acknowledging where he thought the administration was doing the right thing, but he right on you says they dont have the tests and hes not happy about that. Hes been a credible sort of scientific information since the 80s getting us across the country to where we can actually test everybody who needs or wants a test, were really probably several weeks away from that. The fact that so many have been tested, dr. Esper, why did we not have the test kids available when other countries did . I think its a great question. Its certainly one of the things we need to increase or capacity to do all the tests and screen as many people as we feel need to be screened. One of the issues that happened initially is everything was centralized through the centers for Disease Control and through the state and local health department. That part was actually fairly important. The last thing we wanted is people making their own tests up and then being wrong. You can imagine and you have problems if we had falsepositives being report ed the fast has reduced some of those restrictions so that we can start doing testing at the institution level, and we can use some of the research that was done by the centers for Disease Control in order to help us develop our own tests to help increase the capacity initial to the cdc tests coming out. Rebecca katz, how do we, the average consumer, family members, employers, employees figure out what is the timeline here . When will there be an all safe . When will we know if this is a pandemic . This is clearly a pandemic. A lot of people want a specific number. They want to know exactly how many cases there will be . When is this going to be better . I dont think anybody can say with any certainty the answer to any questions. Who we can say is our best guess. We have modelers around the world to try to make those predictions. I have seen predictions saying, well, this will peak in midapril, and then well be fine or there will be a seasonal component and well be okay by summer. I think thats hopeful. I dont know if thats realistic. And it could come back in the fact. If theres a seasonal component, if it acts like seasonal flu. We dont have enough data to say with any certainly thats actually whats going to happen. Remember seven weeks ago we were at 150 cases total in the world. Were now over 100,000 cases. We merely have Community Spread in the united states. Its going to be a while before this is contained. Dr. Esper, theres a lot of people who are so concerned, in areas, not seattle, not, that are saying lets stay home, lets shut schools. Is that the right thing . I dont think thats the right reaction right flow. Its absolutely true, though, the anxiety level is palpability across the community. People are concerned, paying attention and they want more information. Sometimes unfortunately its information we dont have yet. These are all very good questions. Thats a person deciding, when everyone is talking about spring break. There definitely is restriction on International Travel to the hot spotsds, with were talking about china, south korea, italy. Those are welldefined by the centers for Disease Control. Within the country itself, it really is a personal decision as to, are you going to be so scared you cant even enjoy the travel . If so, maybe you shouldnt go. Certainly every travel advisory will be up day by day, and you have to stay tuned. Drink frank esper good advice, rebecca katz, thank for your expertise. We appreciate both of you. Be safe. Stay health,. 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Elizabeth warrens departure from the race from the 2020 contest officially ends the chances for a woman to become president in 2020, ensuring that a whiteman in his 70s will occupy the office for at least the next four years. Warren spoke about the fight to break the Glass Ceiling from her home in cambridge, mass, with my colleague Rachel Maddow. A lot of women around the country feel differently about you dropping out. Whether or not they were supporting you specifically, you leaving the race feels different. Is it that it could be any woman ever . Are we just going to run white men in their late 70s against each other. Oh, god, please no. That could be right. This was the hardest part about this. All those pinky promises, were going to do this. Its just going to be a little longer before were able to have a woman in the white house t doesnt mean it wont happen, that it wont happen soon, but you stay in the fight until you finally break the thing. Well know we can have a woman in the white house when we finally elect a woman to the white house. Joining me now is alley vitaly. And form ever press secretary to attorney general eric holder. Alley, you obviously were around Elizabeth Warren yesterday, it was emotional, gripping, that gender is a big part of this, as far as shes concerned and as far as a lot of women i have talked to are concerned. Youre probably having a lot of the same conferringing ive been having, because Elizabeth Warren was the last chance for women this cycle to see a woman potentially get to the white house. It gender has loomed over this race so large. When she was talking to us outside her house, thank you to the people who changed who they thought would be president. All of these women have challenged what america thinking a president looks like. The thing that Elizabeth Warren used toe say is women win, the thing is americans have to elect them in order for them to seem like a president. Thats something she was even saying last night to Rachel Maddow. Thats really striking. In addition to the gender conversation is this parallel conversation that ive been thinking about, which is the politics of this moment. The only consistent thing has been that voters tell me and tell all our reporters that they just someone who can beat donald trump. Thats the focal point of joe bidens campaign. To a certainly extent thats what Bernie Sanders has focused on,