we have got you covered with fox business susan li on the financial fallout from all of this. chad pergram on how congress is dealing with it. laura ingle is at new york s jfk airport and new travel restrictions kicking in how fliers are coping with it. we begin with susan li. it s official, charles, the worst day are to the dow since 1987 black monday when we saw historic 23% decline in the stock market according to our analysis looks like the worst day for the s&p and nasdaq since at least 2008. fear, anxiety as high as it was in 2008 according to the volatility index. we hit circuit breakers once again this morning only for the second time since 1997. but the second time this week. that means that trading was halted for 15 minutes after the stock markets began the trading sessions today and the reason? well there is a lot of fear and anxiety that there won t be a substantive fiscal stimulus package passed by congress no tax free holiday free up a trillion dollars in cash. also what about the hit to the economy since we are talking about sporting leagues are postponing events and events outright cancelled travel limitations as well. one of the worst performing on the dow playmaker boeing historic. 30% over the past two sessions. also we have travel companies and airlines being hit as well. the likes of royal caribbean, carnival cruise lines and carnival stopped itineraries for princess cruises. also seeing double digital. airline stock del as it of the world and american airlines and also united seeing big hits as well. and there is concern about the impact to the economy. we have seen 13 pear markets over the past 93 years for the s&p 500. that means a drop of 20% from recent peaks and over that time 11 out of those 13 times has recession followed and some people are pricing that in right now for the u.s. economy. charles? charles: susan, thank you very much. now to capitol hill. lawmakers sparring over a new coronavirus bill as broadway suspends performances through mid april, the nba suspends its entire season and now some cruises are suspended for two months. and, of course, the list goes on and on to chad pergram on capitol hill on how they are dealing with the fallout from all of this, chad? well, house speaker nancy pelosi has spoken with the treasury secretary steven mnuchin four times today as she is talking with other leaders in her office right now. i spoke with a senior democratic leadership aide about 20 minutes ago about whether or not they would try to do a retooled coronavirus bill on the house floor today remember they were going to vote on democratic bill. that aide said to me that quote is the plan. we are expecting them to release the next few hours. republicans did not like this bill in particular president trump. listen. support the house democrat bill. no. there are things in there that have nothing to do with what we are talking about. it s not a way for them to get some of the goodies that they haven t been able to get for the last 25 years. republicans had reservations about the legislation and how it would affect social security, medicaid and generality for disaster assistance, i spoke with house speaker nancy pelosi earlier this afternoon about the status of the bill as the aides are scrambling to revamp it and she said quote we are ready ta eud senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said it won t fly here but mcconnell said quote we will look at anything they send us. the senate has officially left town. the senate is still in session. most senators have left. no senate activity there mitch mcconnell has cancelled the recess for next week. the hope there when you talk to some both democratic and republican senators namely roy blunt from missouri and chris coons from delaware they indicate that they hope the house can get a bill. they ping it over to the senate. maybe they, you know, work on it retool it in some way maybe have to pong it back to the house of representatives, but get a bill out the door some time next week. keep in mind that this will probably be the first of several bills that they have to do. they don t know exactly just how dire this crisis will be with coronavirus. remember, with the financial crisis in 2008 they did tarp in the fall of 2008 and then it took them until february of 2009 to stimulus package and then dodd frank in the summer of 2010, charles. charles: i remember those days. chad, thank you very much. thank you. charles: fliers now dealing with the president s 30 day travel ban from europe. laura ingle from new york city with more on that. laura? hey, charles, well, just like all health emergencies, we are seeing a little bit of mixed reaction. some people here are very concerned, very worried while others are taking it in stride. i can tell you one thing, every single person we have talked to today is talking about it with each other, with their family members, with their travel teams. now, new york governor andrew cuomo has just announced that the state s number of coronavirus cases is up. 112 new cases as of today in the state, going from 216 to 328, something health officials have been warning could happen. we want to mention 14% of those 328 are hospitalized now. news that every traveler needs to consider as they make their next move. how did you feel traveling with all of this going on? well, it was i was actually fine. i have not been panicked by it at all. the airport did take enough precautions by the gel and by using masks. so i believe that was fine. as the number of covid-19 cases continues to slow here in the u.s. and across the globe, many travelers told us it was a little bit of a shock to hear that president trump had announced that travel from europe would be restricted for 30 days starting at midnight tomorrow but felt it was necessary. perhaps one of the most unsettling things people heard about today, charles news that a passenger who left from this very airport yesterday on a flight jetblue flight to west palm beach took the flight just as he received the text that he was positive for coronavirus meaning he flew anyway. jetblue fox reads in part last night s case our crew members did a incredible job coordinating with authorities after health officials allowed customers to disembark we conducted a thorough sanitizing of the airlines according to cdc guidance. we have sanitized common areas in both airport terminals involved. that passenger was never observed coughing or sneezing but that of course, is cold comfort to those sitting around him or on the flight at all. charles: thank you very much. i want to go to new york mayor bill de blasio who is speaking about the coronavirus. what the private sector does and i will try my best to explain the specific approach we are taking but, again, it will be evolving literally daily and hourly; we will update you constantly. in light of several new developments, obviously, the numbers that we now have seen over the last 24 hours here in new york city, what we are seeing nationally and internationally, the reality of community spread, that s been with us over these last few days, and the close working relationship between the city and state, the decisions that we are making together and i spoke with governor cuomo at length earlier today about a specific set of decisions and obviously you heard his announcements earlier today which he and i discussed in detail and which i agree with fully, in light of all those changing realities, it is time now to declare a state of emergency in new york city. and i will explain what that means, the powers that invest in me. what it lalou us to d will alloo going forward. i will also state of emergency authorizes use of powers but we will use them as need he had it. doesn t mean everything will happen at once. and we are going to try to be very, very careful to give you accurate information about what the city is doing and why. there is already some very inaccurate information out there which we ll speak to later on. but i want to ask all of you in the news media, you are hearing things being attributed to the city of new york, please ask if it s true or not. we will confirm with you instantly it s very important that the people of the city know what is really coming from their government and what is not. but, now, again, it s time to sign this state of emergency declaration. and continuing on the conversation with the governor, again, i fully support we are in total agreement, his decision related to large gatherings, so we will be working with the state to enforce that new rule that relates to obviously to anything where over 500 people would gather, parades, rallies, concerts sports events, professional conferences, et cetera. and all of our largest venues will now no longer have gatherings until such time in this crisis as it s acceptable to do so again and again i unfortunately suspect that will be a number of months. so places like barclay s, madison square garden, radio city, obviously, will not be operating. as you heard for most venues that will begin 5:00 friday for broadway, as i understand, begins 5:00 tonight also agree with the decision for gatherings under 500 people. this essentially refers to nonessential, non-workplace related dynamics, so we are talking about events, we are talking about restaurants. we are talking about bars. gathering places under 500 people will be mandated to have occupancy levels at 50% or less of their legal occupancy. that will allow for space between people. that will allow for some charles: new york city bill de blasio announcing a state of emergency for the city of new york and going over the powers and some of the things that we can expect here in the city. he is going to outline those details and we may come bang and bring you them later. but of course this follows many other cities and jurisdictions. of course it also follows what has been happening in the stock market. dow jones off 2300 points. biggest point loss in history one of the biggest percentage point losses down 10%. want to bring in john. just your initial assessment. three weeks ago all-time highs given all that back up. and it feels like we have gone from a state of euphoria, certainly complacency to full-on panic. yeah, charles. i completely agree with that as somebody who brought me into here fox studio feels like end times. unfortunately it does. reaction to the virus. talking about us as a country. even if the virus, say, in the best case or one of the best case scenarios is it peaks in a couple of weeks like the chinese model did and start to see a decline because of what is going on as far as what mayor de blasio is doing which is probably completely justified. we hope that in three months we say man we overreacted that would be a wonderful statement to be able to make in three months. these reactions that we re making are probably going to put us right on the brink, if not into some type of recession for our economy. it s the right thing to do. i really believe that but it is going to hurt our economy. charles: that s what everyone in the market is grappling with. you can t assess the market if you don t know what the earnings are going to be. you don t know what the economy is going to be. although the market appears almost on a daily basis to be pricing in a worse case scenario. we are looking at, exactly, we are looking at the markets right now. but we also have to think about what the ripple effect will be as we go through into the next couple quarters here. when you are looking at the stocks that you are seeing up here. young brands, johnson and johnson even some of the consumer spending stocks that i cover, while people are going out there and purchasing, when you get through to the earnings reports that are coming out in a couple weeks, what are the forecast going to be? i was talking to a couple people on the street and i got in touch with some of the people over at raging bull jason and jeff bishop, they were saying that the bottom still isn t going to happen quite. they expect another 20% drop before we even see an upward trend. charles: well, we will see. the estimates are dire, some think we are already oversold. can t get a handle on it. john and hitha, i appreciate it. some of that breaking news for you now, folks, the archdiocese of new york announcing today it will close all catholic elementary schools through friday, march 20th. the decision was made out of an abundance of caution over coronavirus concerns. a virus going viral in the stock market going off the rails. how would our next guest handle this crisis if she were in charge? 2020 democratic presidential candidate tulsi gabbard is with us next. people ask me what sort of a person should become a celebrity accountant. and, i tell them, nobody should. but, i just don t think you need a separate private plane. but i, but i want it! hey, buddy. what s the damage? i bought it! the waterfall? nope! 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with activating emergency food contracts, working with nonprofit organizations, community based organizations and increase the amount of available food. we will have more details on that in the next day or two. and, again, there is nothing that would be more important in terms of providing support and relief for people than federal action. we all understand in a national crisis the federal government can provide a level of relief that state and local government simply can t. we need the federal government to move immediately with a huge stimulus program and a program of relief for working people, paid sick days. any number of measures that would help people through what could easily be a half year or more. the house of representatives has put forward a stimulus plan that is very helpful and very positive step. we need to see action by the house, senate, and the president as quickly as possible. i want to give updates about our school system and talk about the schools in the bronx in a moment absolutely essential to our strategy something we are working very, very hard to continue continuity on i know the state feels the same way. we want our schools to remain open. we intend for our schools to remain open. that said, there are nonessential and noninstructional activities that we ll alter, that will either be moved online if they can be or they will be cancelled. depends on each activity. so that includes psal. athletic activity games and practices. assemblies, parent-teacher conferences, pta meetings and school plays and recitals. and i will stay on the topic of schools and then double back. this morning we have a potential and please, everyone, accurately note this, we do not have independent confirmation, we have a potential case of a student at a school contracting this disease but it is self-confirmed. we do not have a medical provider or a testing agency that has independently verified that that is not in any way doubting what the individuals are saying. it s saying that we have to make a series of decisions and we need medical confirmation. we don t have it right now. we hope to have that confirmation in the next hour or two. two schools and the chancellors here obviously will add in the q and a. chancellor, i want to make sure i describe properly if there is anything you need to correct me on, feel free. two schools in the same building, the laboratory school of finance and technology and south bronx prep, this is the month haven neighborhood in the bronx. the school is at the two schools are in a building 360 east 145th street. again, this was a decision we made this morning, a little after 7:00 a.m. based on decisions excuse me, based on information that had just come in, and it was a tough decision because we did not have that confirmation but out of an abundance of caution, determined that it was the right thing to do, to close the school, to work to get that confirmation. if we were so lucky as to get a negative confirmation, that would be ideal. if we get a positive, it s quite clear to follow through. in the meantime the full disinfection and cleanliness took place in the school today. disease detection from departments of health have been deployed figure out any close contacts as we said would be the case in any temporary school closure. we have checked the school and we will keep double-checking but as of now there are no children in the school who reach what we call a tier 1 level of pre-existing medical conditions so children who would be particularly vulnerable. we are double-checking that but as of this point we don t have the indicates of any children in the school having those particular pre-existing conditions. i want to talk for a moment about two things. the city workforce and then the private sector workforce on the city. we now intend to city workforce to work from home. the specific details are being determined so this is telecommuting, we believe that s a number we can hit in the short-term but it will take some real work. it s not the norm, obviously, for city employment. as is obvious, a huge number of our employees cannot telecommute who we need at their post, but we believe in short order we can have 10% telecommute. i want to confirm that number i believe that is 34,000, but i want to check that and. 35,000. 35,000. thank you, commissioner. and then of the remaining 0% of thre90% of theworkforce there ae intend to put on staggered schedules. again, understanding a lot of our folks not only play a crucial role but cannot be on staggered schedules but others can, we in short order hope to put 20% on staggered work schedules even as they report to their normal work locations. and i wanted that so that s 20% the remaining 90% i want that number, too, do you know it? 70,000. 70,000. thank you, commissioner. between those two categories that s about 100,000 city workers will either be in telecommuting or in a staggered schedule. get them as much as possible away from the rush hour. and, again, our message to new york city businesses, as much as humanly possible, please authorize maximum telecommuting and/or staggered schedules for your employees. i want to say it s our impression so far from the information we are getting that business community is really honorable that. a lot of them are acting on that. the meeting we had here, which was organized with the help of the new york city partnership and ceos and business leaders of some of the most prominent businesses in new york city, just going around the room and going with each going through each of them what they are doing, we saw a very, very high level of adherence to the guidance to institute a telecommuting. in the case of some of the companies which had the ability, obviously, if it s a technology company, for example, more capacity to do it. we had companies that were literally at 100 percent telecommuting now. other companies are going to have a much harder time and strike a balance. a great example. one of the unite great new yorky iconic companies macy s ceo was here. macy s is in a different situation where a lot of their workers obviously work in physical locations. but they are working with us to maximize any kind of adjustments they can make. so, i want to say i appreciate the high level of cooperation from the business community. i also want to note every business is different. some can do a lot of have a lot of flexibility, others do not, they are all taking it seriously. they are all working with us. we do want to keep reminding any business that s not yet instituted max mum telecommuting and/or staggering work hours that we need them to but again are sensitive to the fact that not every business can do that and we are extremely concerned to keep people employed. keep people from running out of their livelihood because that has a huge number of other ramifications that we are trying to strike that balance but very pleased with the cooperation we are getting. and we are going to try to work with these businesses on any help they need as they proceed. hang on one sec. okay, a couple other matters, there has been concern about the special election scheduled for march 24th for borough president of queens. we are analyzing those concerns but i want to be very, very clear that election will continue as scheduled. we are dealing with unprecedented challenge but i think it is a signature of a stable democracy that elections happen when scheduled so we very much want that elections to happen on time so long we believe it can happen effectively. however i want to urge all candidates and campaigns to alter their activity right now. we are reaching out to each campaign specifically. we believe door-to-door canvassing should be stopped immediately. i want to note and knowing a lot about campaigns over the years. campaigns have many, many. charles: new york city mayor bill de blasio going over a long slate of items as new york city declares a state of emergency one that many municipalities, cities and states are going to have to do. on that i want to get the read on 2020 presidential candidate tulsi gabbard. thanks for joining us. thanks, charles. charles: the news is coming quickly from all areas. first of all, bill de blasio made some comments about running low on food. families needing to survive and pinpoint it back to the federal government saying that s where it has to come from. that s the most important area and he must move immediately. i think everyone agrees on that and still, it feels like there is a lot of stalling there a lot of the old political shenanigans. this continues to be a problem, unfortunately where partisanship is getting in the way of just delivering what the american people need right now especially as our country faces this crisis, now is not the time for politics, now is the time for leaders to step up, stand together we will all in this together and to put the health and well-being of the american people above all else it s a little bit encouraging expecting we would have votes at 10:00 this morning on a direct aid package, directed towards working people, every day americans across the country, but there was concern coming from republicans it was not crafted in the bipartisan way so that vote never happened and literally both sides are coming together, i think they are working with the administration on making sure that what we passed in congress is something democrats and republicans worked on and get on the president s desk as quickly as possible. charles: that s the most important pointed. i did see with mnuchin and pelosi had several conversations today. the idea of the same usual big wish list from one side and a big wish list from the other and all this wrangling, there is no time for that. there isn t. charles: wind mill is closing. there seems to be low hanging fruit and who we want to help. everyone would agree paid sick leave, folks out there in the gig economy. people out there without health insurance. some pretty simple stuff. but what about something bolder and bigger that president trump is talking about, the payroll tax cut. this was something democrats really seemed to embrace when president obama was in office it s something that helps small business employers and employee he is and it s huge, it s big, it would be impactful. i think overall when we look about look at the struggles that small business owners especially have and just trying to keep their doors open and keep people employed, i think that s a very good debate that we need to have and there is a lot of value in that i think where i m looking is this immediate short-term impact and that s where i differ a little bit. i don t think this payroll tax credit will do enough to help those, for example, who make less than $25,000 a year. they won t see much of a help coming from that. as you mentioned, those are are uber drivers, that s where they get their income on or working on gig economy, freelancers, those individuals won t get assistance from that payroll tax credit. what i m proposing is an immediate emergency temporary universal basic payment that goes directly to every adult american in this country to help them in this dire situation where most americans in this country, they are working paycheck to paycheck, struggling just to get by and don t even have a buffer to think about how do you buy two weeks of food supplies for your family and the other considerations. charles: less than 30 seconds because of all the breaking news. i appreciate you staying. not means tested. everyone would get a check. how much would that check be? i m proposing $1,000. i think that can be negotiated. again, this is a time of crisis. we have been spending $4 billion a month in afghanistan with a lot of people wondering what is this for? how is this helping the american people? we need to put the well being of the american people first right now and invest in them. charles: 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let s ask orlando magic co-founder pat williams. pat, thanks so much for joining us. charles, nice to talk to you. i m glad that we have a chance to visit here. so am i a lot of rumors last week about playing to arenas, push back. lebron james saying he would not play without a live audience because that s what he lives for. things have changed dramatically, are you happy with the decision so far from the league? all of sports has done the right thing here, baseball has announced today and the colleges as well as the nba and nhl. they are listing, charles, to the medical experts and doing what they are told, and that we should all remember here, listen though those medical experts, i would also add stay positive, stay optimistic through. this this, too shall pass. and one other thought and it s simply this. to all of us, to everybody watching, listening, stay close to the lord. don t let the fear that we all feel now threaten your faith because our god is big enough to deal with all of this i m certain of that. charles: no doubt people are starting to fill it on a personal level. particularly those folks who happen to be in quarantine areas and it s testing our faith. it really is of course when we start to see athletes who for the most part particularly when you are younger seem invincible. it seems like maybe it s even taking them down. what you know, how do we get this message home that for the most part this is people survive. this healthy people survive it. sure be a short-term challenge but one we should overcome? well, charles, it s really interesting. i m struck like can i hear hear my mother s voice from years and years ago, patrick, wash your hands not just before dinner, that s what we are hearing all the time, isn t it wash your hands frequently because that s where many of the germs reside, so wash your hands frequently, stay hydrated. get the proper rest that you need. eat properly, continue your workout schedule. i think that s all good advice. but, here s one other thought with all these games off now and every sport, college basketball and baseball start, i mean, there are going to be a lot of free hours to those people who stay glued to the games on tv. i have got an idea for them read. lots of time now to catch up on your reading. dive into those good books that you have had sitting around that you didn t have time to. now have you got it. start a reading program and spend time in your bible as well. that s good advice, also. charles: from someone who is a bestselling author among all the other accomplishments. the nba, though, suspending these games. is there a chance? i mean we are talking huge money, potentially billions of dollars with all these leagues and just just impact the leagues but the tv network and everyone else. what would be the signal in your mind for the nba to say okay, it s okay, we can go back? every business is starting to time stamp these suspensions to mid march, late march, maybe early april. that s a great point. here is what i think is going to happen, the nba, for example, is going to get caught you on the games. we will be playing basketball well into the summer. and wouldn t that be interesting. charles: yeah. after seeing that if that became the norm. charles: i m sorry. i went over but one her ore thing mom said always wash behind your ears. amazing how mother always knew best. we should all listen to our mothers, charles. charles: i think we will. we have got to go. by the way not just the nba responding to the coronavirus the nhl also suspending their season. major league soccer postpones games for 30 days. ncaa canceling all winter and spring championship tournaments and the pga will not have fans at their tournaments, also. major league baseball will cancel the rest of spring training and delay opening day by two weeks. so what kind of economic impact will all of these events being cancelled have? fox news headlines 24/7 jerry max joins me now. jared, i just know the number is huge. what is it? well, you look at the fact that the ncaa men s basketball tournament generally probably would register about $1.5 billion in ad revenue. suddenly just a few minutes ago the men s and women s ncaa basketball tournament got called off. we have all these conference tournaments getting called off. there is no major league baseball to look forward. to say no more spring training at least for the first two weeks of the season. something outside of the box, think of gambling, we have so much widespread legalized gambling right now. what are people going to be betting on aside from a game of tidally winks going on in living room. this is very much a changing landscape of sports sports charles. it sun precedented. the closest i thing i can think of in the days of a 9/11 when there wasn t much sports at all. in new york where we are from, what those teams dealt with and what happens. we have never seen anything like this and i agree with pat williams and everybody else. the right call was made and when the time is right to get back on the field, i think we re going to know it. there is only a couple of sports which still say they will have fans like the pga tour will have fans coming into events. well, the masters tees off on april 9th. it s really less than a month away. the cost for tickets for the opening round badge is running around one quarter of the price what it was just two years ago. so maybe there is some deals to be had. there might be cheap flying to be had. right now we don t know what it s going to be. charles: jared, thank you very much. you are right. it just doesn t stop. everything has stopped though. thank you very much. it has. charles: how do you tell main street not to panic about money when it seat wall street in full blown freak out mode? 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tells us how music is helping rebuild nashville after those devastating tornadoes. i am charles payne in for neil cavuto. we begin in washington where pressure mounting as the virus is spreading. give us the latest. reporter: mike pence meeting with cruise line executives, the white house considering discouraging americans from taking cruises to stop the spread of the virus. and and pleased to report. and because of the change donald trump implemented, state labs can conduct coronavirus tests themselves. they are languishing off the california coast. i don t need to have the numbers doubled because of one ship. it didn t fall to the - mostly americans. i can live with it. i would rather have him stay on. reporter: in washington congress is considering a report from home as reported by chad program. the head of infectious diseases at walter reed says there is no need to panic. at the end of the status remains a low risk to servicemembers and the american public. reporter: just this morning the us military announcing an american sailor, marking the first infection to the us military in europe. charles: donald trump signing the bipartisan a.3 billion-dollar coronavirus aid bill. only two members of congress voted against it, my next guest is one of them, arizona republican congressman andy biggs. first question, what the heck were you thinking about? what i am thinking about is this has been hyperbola and the politicization that has gone on, the administration has done a good job, $2.5 billion before and after the vote. that is what i said i would vote for. that chuck schumer politicized this and they backed into the 8 billion-dollar money amount and 1 billion of that overseas. they needed $2.5 billion. if they come back 3 months later, whatever, we can do it. just because it is the right thing to do doesn t mean you triple the money that is put to this effect. there s a lot of misinformation, this remains a low risk low chance people get it for the vast majority. david: 415-numtwo, sometimes there is a political l on something as frightening as this. i m with you 1000%, the coverage has been deliberately to create a certain amount of panic in the stock market and main street but by the same token you mentioned coming back to congress, the kind of leadership people don t want to see, maybe being over prepared, what the american people want to see. last thing you want is to this to evolve to a place where the american public says we are caught flat-footed and have to go back to congress to let them muddle through the next round of funding. i have to push back on that a little bit. the administration said they need $2.5 billion, additional funds from other sources and the fact of the matter is you put a trigger in here saying once you spend $1 billion we trigger additional funding. this is not been done because it is to prepare us, sending this money for your 5 years out, dealing with negligent circumstances and moving forward with a plan. this is responding, reacting in my opinion recklessly because of the spending. you could have done this in an orderly way. they chose to politicize it and that is why you get $8 billion when you should have done 2.5. david: i understand the circumstances, you need to spend an extra things and it has spiraled out of control and a lot of people have thought you for sticking to your political convictions. it was a dangerous gambit in some ways but and mark meadows and chief of staff how you feel about that. make has done a great job, i will miss him in congress. he is a great friend, to the white house and donald trump. steve: 0 donald trump sending troops to the border and a lot of people concerned about the remain in mexico thing and before then a rush to get in before the supreme court. is this the right move? it is the right move in the mpp program has worked and i hope the courts understand it is a cooperative effort with mexico and it has been helpful. david: thank you. the coronavirus spreading, leaders are pointing fingers. will the blame game backfire? let s ask lee carter, nathan rubin and new york post s kelly jane torrence. let me start with you. so sick of everything being politicized. we are in the midst of something, the blame game should be postmortem, not in a little of this. it should stop any american people are tired of and in this moment if we cannot come together and say we have a problem we have a really big problem because this is something the american people are scared, it will impact the economy and on the elderly, is trump to blame or democrats to blame, is this a hoax? whatever people want to talk about they can talk about later. address the problem and make americans feel safe and make sure we are safe. charles: the biggest part of the outcome of this will be self inflicting. the virus is not going to hurt the economy is much as how we react to it. early on the political finger-pointing weeks ago, joe biden called donald trump a xena phone but because he didn t want flights from china, the white house was caught flat-footed in the worst case outcome was inevitable because of that and that doesn t help. i don t disagree with you. to call out missteps to get where we are today. charles: is that what she would be doing? that is where we do things differently and the trump administration handling this more as a public relations crisis. charles: no one behind the scenes trying to find vaccines? absolutely that is true but when you have the president of the united states in 15 cases, 300 cases across 20 states. 75,000, that is not true, to be transferred and fact based. i don t see that from the trump administration. one thing this highlighters people think a president is responsible for everything that happens in a country in an economy. we have people at the cdc, national institutes for health who are working on this and continue to work on this. a lot of people criticized the trump administration saying they were trying to silence these people and doctor fasuci worked for 5 or 6 presidents, donald trump is not tried to silence me, a crazy thread this morning on twitter in which he said republicans are doing a terrible job, cutting off and all these things, republicans overwhelmingly as you noted voted with democrats on that 8 billion-dollar package, there s a lot of misinformation going on and democrats are trying to take advantage and damage to the economy is one of the only things that might help them in the fall. charles: donald trump is trying to exude confidence. he s not going to say this is the worst case scenario. any consumer confidence numbers, this is where we are right now. confidence is started to drift but it is higher than it was years ago but we are drifting toward where we were last year, the most recent sentiment readings in the last couple weeks or couple days we saw people mention the virus, didn t say it would change their behavior. we have to be careful of these large institutions including the media how we handle these things because the public has a major distrust of all of them. whether we like or not there will be an impact, it will not be in the blame game or exploiting the problem but finding the solution and the situation about what we are doing. there have been missteps, the president should not have said the things he did. and address this. i charles: you might see there was a massive overreaction. in the last debate some folks are upset the coronavirus wasn t mentioned more as a topic. is this something how delicately the democrats handle this on the campaign trail? they need to talk about solutions to both your points and i turn this on its head and say in the instance of something blowing up like this which you have federally mandated, not have people without health insurance who cannot go to the doctor. we should be looking at ways to alleviate and mitigate consumer confidence, if you are sick, don t go to work. charles: everyone says if you are sick, stay home but also to businesses how to run your business is a different political economic topic. i have to say i am in an industry, journalism, easier to work from home but my boss has been telling me do you have this program on your home computer and a lot of places are doing that. ainsley: a few other things, this virus will change things that might have artie been changing in our society. in florida mike pence will hold an emergency meeting, cruise line ceo says they scrambled key passengers safely former governor rick scott will be there but first let s here. you invest your cash. you can get a satisfaction guarantee. you can also wonder why our competitors don t offer that. schwab, a modern approach to wealth management. charles: mike pence meeting with cruise lines in florida, businesses getting crushed because of the outbreak as the sunshine state has two death. how are they coping? florida governor rick scott who will be at the meeting with mike pence later this afternoon. the first two deaths reported and order, the first on the east coast. how are you handling the news and what should the public now? i am glad the vice president is coming down. we need to have a conversation with the cruise industry, talked to quite a few people about that and yesterday, we have two deaths. here s the way i look at it. i dealt with the car when i was governor. prepare for the worst and hope for the best, do everything you can to keep the public informed so they can make an informed decision. i was surprised about the definitely county which adjoins the county i live in. we didn t know there was a presumptive case. where did this person travel, they traveled into the airport, whoever was on the flight, let s make sure they can get tested but we need to do everything we can to get the public informed so they can make a good decision. we are all worried about our families. i got phone calls from family members, friends, citizens, they want more information. charles: one of the patients was in their 70s, recently returned from international trips. we saw in california, 8400 people recently returned from asian countries with high concentrations of the coronavirus. seems a daunting task that is there any way to get folks in your state to say i came from italy, from china, from south korea and the way to help the public, safety officials identify folks with the virus. they have a passport so we know where they came from. that ought to be out there but on top of that whatever flight they flew one everybody should be tested and have the opportunity to be tested. for their family members they to potentially infect somebody else. we need to have more transparency at every level, more transparency for everybody. tell people like in lee county, i am very surprised we didn t know there was a case until the person passed away. what type of health issues so somebody with a similar issue could say i have a similar issue and better not be traveling. charles: you talked about the cruise industry. we know how important it is to your state s economy. norwegian cruise line stock is down, carnival cruise line 47%. these stocks are down 50%. how do we want the delicate balance to save an industry people are becoming more leery of? florida is a tourism state. our economy is tied to tourism, the cruise industry had 7 million apartments last year. a lot of people come through our airports. the industry itself has got to be very vocal what they are doing to keep people safe. i talk to them. they ve got to be very vocal, what type of sanitation programs they have, what they will do a patient is sick on a ship. they out to be very specific what they are doing. a lot of jobs, 100,000 jobs, the uber drivers, taxi drivers and those people. charles: my son is coming there for spring break. you got one kid coming down there. i want to ask about senator schumer, the vitriolic nature of things getting worse, not better. i was shocked and shocked about what chuck schumer said. it is reprehensible, he should completely apologize to the supreme court justices, we don t need more vitriol. we need to have people come together. it is fascinating how little people worked together in washington dc, how many people don t have any interest in talking to each other. we ve got to change, come together. maybe the coronavirus or something else will bring us together to focus on america, not who wins the next election. charles: we need to be invaded by martians before we come together and that may be true. you have been there a year but you ve brought a different spirit to the job that is infectious. we wish you luck in a state, we will be interested to see what happens with that cruise line industry which is limping at this point and and i m sending my sincere state. any updates clarinetist now. if you need something, call. charles: donald trump touching down in tennessee after tornadoes went through hundreds of homes and businesses. 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can see how bad the damage is. donald trump flew over this area in marine one before landing in one of the hardest hit areas when the tornado moved through middle tennessee. the first time a sitting president visited putnam county and they thanked him under those circumstances. they would rather not have seen him but they were glad he was there to offer reassurances and condolences to people under federal assistance they need. message for the families of those who lost their lives. it is incredible place, tremendous heart, you see people rebuilding. 25 tennesseans lost their lives, tennesseans have shown up. we are the volunteers state. to surround neighbors and provide hope and assistance and it has been inspiring. bill lee said he would appreciate the federal assistance, to declare a disaster in tennessee and fema help, they see the damage here, the country stars in nashville have come together including john rich who has a bar in the redneck riviera and heathrow benefit concert to benefit the victims, the survivors and family members of the victims. get your arms around it unless you walk in the middle of it. they need a car. there is no better time than right now to pack this place and do that. reporter: he helped raise thousands of dollars for victims and family members. if you want to help out donations have been pouring in. we have a link to that on our website. charles: to one of the officials who was with the president, putnam county tennessee mayor randy porter. i know your town was hit particularly hard. appreciate you taking the time and where things stand right now. amazing for donald trump to come here, first time we had a person come, very passionate, one of the hardest hit, where eight people were killed. very uplifting. it is what our community needs, we have been in disaster recovery, it has been tough with all the construction, parents have come to a turning point that allowed us to rebuild. charles: we talked about victims of things and numbers all the time. a particular couple in your town, he taught bible class, it humanizes, people need to understand, people need to get away from the numbers, a young beautiful family and a 2-year-old son no longer with us. we have heartbreaking stories just like that and a whole family gone, they lost their brother and sister across the street. they were blessed because they were spared and the mother that lived with them, all kinds of heartbreaking stories, we tried to work through the funerals starting this weekend and the country keep moving forward. charles: i want to get back to the notion of the president, how important is it he took the time to get there so quickly as you look at the recovery. coming to the county was amazing. him signing the declaration for the emergency help for fema, to allow us he opened up a system that tempered housing so forth. absolutely unbelievable. we are thankful for him and for coming. charles: thank you for joining us, our thoughts are with you and the folks in your town. we appreciate it. ainsley: in michigan, could be make or break for bernie sanders to take on joe biden. 125 delegates at stake. why is debbie dingell keeping her support from either one at bay? we will ask are coming up next. transitions light under control. upbeat music transitions signature gen 8, available now in 4 new style colors. transitions. charles: bernie sanders and joe biden completing their cases this weekend, 352 delegates up for grabs and that is why sanders is in michigan. allison barber covering the show me state showdown. reporter: biden made one of the quickest political comebacks. his campaign said they raised $22 million and five days. he is leading in the delegate count. the former vice president phoned into a fundraiser in a maryland suburb and told supporters a virginia primary was the most significant thing to happen to his campaign because we changed the narrative, he will increase votes, this will happen, you got to elect bernie because he will bring up people to defeat trump. overwhelming percentage of that turnout turned out for us. it is having a ripple effect across the country. bernie sanders held a rally in detroit yesterday, hitting on trade and healthcare. in michigan a statewide poll has biden ahead of sanders by 7 percentage points. joe has more delegates than we have, we will see what happens in california where we won but every state is important and come tuesday maybe michigan is the most important. we are going to work as hard as we can. we have a message. reporter: biden will be here in st. louis, he set to speak in an hour and a half. supporters are lined up to get inside this event. missouri, michigan, mississippi, north dakota, idaho and washington. charles: from missouri to michigan where bernie michigan congresswoman debbie dingell, thanks for joining us. all of us at michigan feels like a bigger state than normal, has the most delegates and it could be the make or break moment. joe biden s momentum is amazing, one for the record books. how do you see it going down? this is the first time michigan has been make or break it. four years ago i predicted bernie would michigan, i was careful in saying it because nobody wanted to hear it and it did happen and that changed the dynamics of that presidential campaign for the rest of the year for democrats. they are a snap in time but hillary clinton was going to win the election four years ago and we know who is president now. it is a competitive race in michigan. joe biden, i love both of these men. joe biden was one of john dingell s best friends, saved the auto industry, with me when john got sick, this is a man i worked with bernie. i am a medicare for all person. my father in law was the author of social security in the first introduce it. these are personal emotional issues. both men are good men. at this point i have been focused on november. last year we tore at each other instead of looking at what matters. for this country november matters and i m part of pulling it together. charles: i saw the wonderful remarks joe biden made on behalf of your husband and i know they were great friends. i have gone through your old facebook stuff. you and bernie sanders worked on a lot of things and always welcomed them to your state to work on healthcare issues so you have no problem saying i m not going to endorse either candidate. is this something the rest of the democratic party should consider? there is a real feeling of unhappiness. the rules of changed ostensibly to keep tulsi gabbard out of the next debate, to let michael bloomberg into the contest and a lot of people along the way are getting frustrated and i think it will have a mental detrimental impact on turnout. i m very worried about it. we need to pull together. i remember how ugly it was four years ago and how vitriolic and a lot of people stayed home and their votes matter. i m focused on how to bring this together. i can t tell what will happen in michigan. senator sanders is in my district a lot. when i leave here he is in my hometown of dearborn, doing a big rally in ann arbor with all the young people into a townhall with all of you in my district monday night with fox. i suspect he may when my district but statewide, joe biden will be arriving on monday. a lot of members of the black caucus are doing surrogate work. it will be competitive in the state. at the end we have to come together. i know both men. i m focused on november because i think the future of this country is at stake, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press are all issues we have to really worry about, making sure policy decisions are being based on scientific evidence. that is what i think this election is about. charles: do you think if bernie does not win michigan and suffers more setbacks on tuesday, how does the party get him into the fold while not adopting his signature platform? when we say get into the fold, everybody has to keep talking and coming together. i m not going to give up. my father in law introduced the first universal healthcare bill in the early 40s, medicare in 65 because of that. we will keep that going. i m committed to keep it going but i will work hard for whoever the candidate is and if you don t have vision you will never get there. charles: the establishment has rejected medicare for all but we will see what happens. we appreciate your honesty. we will see you again soon. thank you very much. back here in new york the number of coronavirus cases continues to jump overnight, we saw a big move. what are officials doing to get this under control? that is the question next. charles: the number of coronavirus cases in new york grows by the day. on friday was announced 22 cases to 44. joining me now nassau county - thank you for joining us. your state, your county, three more cases overnight. a total of four cases in hempstead and all four people who tested positive, one man and 3 women are closely connected. our health department, county health department on the front lines of dealing with this. the health department jumped into action and starts a contact investigation. to track a person s life, people 5 to have a positive case, go through their context, go through their day and others who are deemed to be at risk the health department will contact them directly and also in charge of the new monitoring guidelines. charles: what are the moderating guidelines, what they are doing is monitoring to that. if you have a country of concern or close contact with someone who came from a country of concern, and monitor that way. we have a few people who have compulsory monitoring and keeping track of and making sure they are sustained and staying isolated. charles: is there anything unique about where the person was in the first place? these are cases of community spread. we are not sure how the first person was tested positive who got it. the problem right now is community spread. people walking around who have a virus, who don t know they have the virus. this is why these investigations are so important. people who are deemed at risk are isolated. charles: it is more contagious when you show the symptoms? it becomes sort of exponentially more contagious. a virus can be contagious at any time even when you are not showing symptoms this is a microscopic particle that has existed on planet earth for a few months. we are learning about it. there is a lot we don t know. if it is like a normal flu that cycles out seasonally or is similar. charles: we hope that is the case as we move forward. the best case - as we learn more we make sure the public knows and there s a lot of anxiety around this and i m encouraging a residents who at this point there is no reason to panic, go about your business, schools are not closed, take the train to work, the trains are making sure they are cleaning properly, buses the same thing, go about your life, go shopping, go to the restaurants, live your life and keep track and we will keep getting the message out. wash hands, really rub them. if you re anxious, that is the best way to protect yourself. if you are sick don t go to the emergency room, stay home, call your healthcare provider. charles: words of wisdom, we appreciate them. a fulltilt panic when we don t have to. stay calm and go shopping. charles: up next, we are going to i want to tell you, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. charles: chuck schumer taking direct aim at supreme court justices, donald trump wants to know why senators are not taking more heat. .so we can spend a bit today, knowing we re prepared for tomorrow. wow dad, do you think you overdid it maybe? i don t think so. what do you think, peanut? nope! honey, do you think we overdid it? overdid what? see? we don t think so, son. technically, grandparents can t overdo it. it s impossible. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. transitions light under control. upbeat music transitions signature gen 8, available now in 4 new style colors. transitions. what chuck schumer said, should completely apologize, he should not say those things. we don t need more vitriol. we need to have people come together. charles: senator rick scott on senate minority leader chuck schumer s comments about neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. here now is former clerk to neil gorsuch, thanks for joining us. i don t know if you saw the, quote, apology but senator schumer blamed it on his brooklyn upbringing saying i threatened a supreme court justice, the most obvious transparent way but just because that is the way i was raised. what is odd about this situation is chuck schumer in 2017 when donald trump refers to judge robards as a so-called judge said donald trump s marks were terrible and problematic, said it would cause a slowdown in the gore such nomination and here he is on the steps of the supreme court by name attacking two sitting supreme court justices. over 4000 threats a year to federal judges across the country, the us marshals, in virginia, to manage these threats and we have a us senator, the majority leader attacking by name two us supreme court justices is unbelievable and being from brooklyn is not an excuse. charles: feels like the culmination of a string of things out of the democratic party from the election that changing everything including adding more supreme court justices, limiting the power of judges, feels like they want to append the constitutional roots of our system because they didn t in the last election including the supreme court. it makes you wonder if mitch mcconnell stood on the steps of the supreme court and attacked ruth bader ginsburg and later kagan what would chuck schumer be saying, should increase the number of justices, hillary clinton got electoral bernie sanders gets elected. clearly it is not the same rules that apply to chuck schumer, no big deal. mitch mcconnell does it and that is the fundamental issue. chuck schumer, a halfhearted apology, not sufficient, he should be called out in this particular case. charles: the attempted intimidation of supreme court justices. we know human beings read newspapers. what are your thoughts about that? nobody is free from complaints, the president said things about judges, should have said those things. charles: justices themselves, how do you feel about that? don t care what people say about him he will decide on the law. the rest of it is a similar but you ll gore such does not care. charles: country music stars racing to tennessee s rescue. one of them will be coming up in the next hour. we will be right back. . americans are keeping a close eye on the coronavirus as it continues to spread this morning. so far there are more than 300 confirmed cases and at least 17 deaths here in the united states. meanwhile, vice-president pence will be meeting with ceo s of cruise ships in a few hours to discuss the situation. this, as 3500 people are still stranded on that ship off the coast of san francisco because passengers are testing positive for the virus. clauda cowan now with the details. that s right, 19 crew members and two passengers have tested positive for the coronavirus, that means that the grand princess will not be coming back here to its home port as planned today. but there s still no word on where or when this ship will dock. take a look at the map. you can see the ship continues to circle about 30 miles off the coast of san francisco, with coast guard vessels alongside. and at some point this weekend it will head to a commercial port well away from other cruise ships and passengers as everyone is clear and tested. instead they could have to stay on board like the diamond princess in japan or if they ll be taken off the ship. we know the coronavirus sickened several people on the ship s previous cruise between san francisco and mexico, including a california man who died last week. vice-president mike pence says those who are infected now probably caught the virus on that earlier cruise. it s very likely that the crew on the grand princess was exposed on two different two different outings, but we will be testing everyone on the ship. we will be quarantining as necessary, but with regard to the 1100 member crew, we anticipate that they will be quarantined on the ship, will not need to disembark. 46 people were tested on thursday after diagnostic kits were airlifted to the ship. 19 testing positive, 24 tested negative. one test was inconclusive and the testing really has just begun with more than 3,000 people on board stuck in their cabins. passengers have free movies and wi-fi and menus to order room service, but it is a gloomy day here in san francisco and the mood fits. charles, we now have 69 confirmed covid-19 cases here in california. charles: thank you, claudia. now to health and human secretary tom price, how we are on how the country is handling this. sir, tom, thanks for joining us. thank you, charles to be with you. charles: and you ve played many roles in the federal government including hhs. your assessment thus far of, you know, let s separate the noise, media noise, political noise from what s actually is happening and where we should be going. well, that s really important because this coronavirus, although new and different, isn t unique. as you know and as many of your viewers know, this is the same family of viruses that causes the common cold, the same family of viruses that caused the sars and the mers epidemic, differe different, it has some unique features that those that are sick and able to spread the disease and that s a problem for the public health officials. the public health officials at state level. local level, federal level, they know how to handle infectious diseases. there is a lot of uncertainty, but there ought not to be fear. we ll get through this. charles: do you think as we get more information particularly on death rates and mortality rates, when the world health organization give their numbers, they cobble them in with iran. and their health is not to ours, not to diminish the loss of american life or life in general, but as we see this data coming in, it feels there s a large swath of american people, working aids folk infact aren t succumbing to the virus. that s correct, 80% who get this in the united states will get through without significant challenge at all like the flu, like the cold. there are some who will be hospitalized and some will need further treatment, but it looks like the mortality rate, death rate is somewhere between 1 and 3%, but again, it s a problem because there are individuals who are asymptomatic, don t have symptoms at all yet have the infection who will never cross the paths of those numbers that you talk about. now to put this in context. as people know, there are over 22 million cases of the annual flu, the seasonal flu and in the united states this year there have been over 18,000 individuals who have died because of that seasonal flu. so, it s important to put all of this in that context and again, allow the public health individuals to do their jobs. charles: american businesses are rapidly telling employees and workers to stay home and of course, you know, conventions haven about cancelled, gatherings have been canceled. that s right. charles: is this the right amount of caution? is there too much? is there an abundance of caution. i guess we always want to err on that side, but there are implications. you want to err on the side of caution, but i think there s significant overreaction to this, that s not to say that this isn t a challenge because there is. but this is where folks need to listen to the local, state and federal public health officials, they re the folks who ought to be defining exactly when things ought to be closed down. when we ought to move to virtual engagement from a communications standpoint, as opposed to otherwise. so, there are folks who are really smart about this and know their business extremely well who can really inform companies and others to make certain that we do respond in the most sober and calm manner, so that we all are able to get through this in the best way possible. charles: before i let you go. i have to ask you about the health care program na you are also involved in right now and i d like for you, if you could, share that with the audience. yeah, i m working with job creators network, one of the best small business advocacy groups in the country along with job creators and physician for reform. what we did was to go out in the field over the last year and ask people what it is that they want in their health system. i ve done a lot of work on health policy for a number of years and the data that we got back talking the thousands, literally thousands of individuals was that they want personalized health care, not centralized health care like medicare for all. so we came up with they came up with health care for you. it s a group of about seven or eight policy issues that the american people say they prefer to a centralized system, to medicare for all. we re looking forward to working with governors and state insurance, governors and physician groups and patient advocacy groups across the nation to let folks know there s a positive alternative, a positive solution to the health challenges that we face. charles: dr. tom price, thank you, appreciate it. thank you, charles. be gone. charles: new reports of the coronavirus mutating and china saying there may be two different strands of the virus. does it mean it s more dangerous. joining us from the national center for disease preparedness, doctor, thank you for joining us. thank you, charles. charles: those are the kinds of headlines that worry people more, the mutation of the virus and yet, i saw a doctor on with lou dobbs last night, it s not uncommon for viruses to mutate. correct. charles: where are we right now? and it s common to mutate, but mutate to what, if it s to the vax vaccine that s developed, we ll wait and see. i listened to dr. price. one thing we don t have the testing and for physicians to know what to do and when public health officials decide to close schools or do something drastic because we don t have the information we need to make reliable decisions, and that s been a big problem. really, inexplicable how it is we ve failed to come up with a reliable, well-distributed test for this, this virus weeks and weeks and weeks after we should have. no one knows why, but it s a problem. charles: i understand you had to get certain samples from china, i mean, there s a big string of events that have to happen before you go get there. but that part to your point we re addressing millions of tests will go out. what the audience is probably more concerned about, i read in the national science review about the potential mutation and they re saying two types, l-type and s-type. and l-type is more dangerous. as january came that faded out and the reason they say is because of human intervention because of quarantines, which means that perhaps the more dangerous mutation of this is being addressed. i mean, are these the kind of drastic measures that we should implement just so that if there is a mutation, the more dangerous form of this virus doesn t spread? yeah, sure. first of all, this comes from china. we need to everything needs to be confirmed and reconfirmed. china is not exactly known for its transparency and sharing with the world community although getting better. in the meantime, we have to worry, but the problem is if we end up with quarantining a lot of people or taking steps like closing schools and closing sporting events and big group gatherings or public transportation in a city like new york, we re talking about extraordinarily disruptive we re not there in your mind? we re not there. we could be there, but right now we re not there. the public is right to be concerned and not panic. i totally agree with that. in the meantime there s a lot of confusion and concern, i m telling you within the medical community so we have a lot of work to do, but we need those tests. charles: we ll get them. i know the administration and listening and telling us for the last 24 hours they are coming. doctor. thank you so much. you re welcome, charles. charles: appreciate it. thank you. more companies are telling their workers to stay home. what will that mean for the economy? we ll discuss that next. . as your broker, i ve solved it. that s great, carl. but we need something better. that s easily adjustable has no penalties or advisory fee. and we can monitor to see that we re on track. like schwab intelligent income. schwab! introducing schwab intelligent income. a simple, modern way to pay yourself from your portfolio. oh, that s cool. i mean, we don t have that. schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. more and more businesses are taken action to protect their workers and customers from the coronavirus. fox business s deirdre bolton has more on what they re doing. yeah, charles, major changes here. so in tech, where it s arguably easier to work remotely, there are a lot of companies making changes. twitter telling employees globally to stay home. and google and facebook asking teams to work from home and google did the same a few days ago with its european-based staff in berlin. washington state by the numbers is the hardest hit right now in the u.s. seattle one of amazon s employees there diagnosed with the virus and facebook seeing a contractor who works at one of its offices in seattle had tested positive so facebook closing the facility for the rest of the week. and amazon, facebook, google, microsoft, basically all encourage their employees in seattle to just work for home. additionally, amazon, bans business trips, if it s not essential don t go, do it virtually. and south by southwest, this is a huge meeting up for tech, for musicians, for architects. it was set to kick off next week, just last night that the festival would not go forward, so many people canceled. apple, twitter, microsoft, intel, ibm, netflix and a few of the companies and relative speakers not going to go. canceled for austin, texas, the event usually gets 400,000 attendees, hollywood, believe it or not, affected as well. the release of the latest james bond movie delayed. supposed to be in the spring, no time to die was the title of the film and now released in november. essentially everyone involved with this, no one wants to be in a crowded movie theater. charles, this coronavirus certainly affecting all kinds of businesses. charles: thank you very much. so all of these measures meant to protect us will have a negative impact on the economy. which by the way, the latest jobs report shows was just an absolute gang busters is an understatement. 273,000 jobs, 730,000 the last three months. what s going to happen with the overall economy now? let s bring in our panel, and aaron gibbs and debra deirdre bolton joining us at the table. a short walk. charles: you come on my show all the time on fox business, you were cautious with market valuations which might explain part why the sharpness of the pullback, but there are actions taken that will have a detrimental impact on the economy. the big question though is for how long. right now most of wall street is looking at this lasting through until the end of the september, basically until third quarter and we re seeing that most expectations are that we start to return to normal towards december, but we definitely are seeing a big impact. in fact, if you look at the expected profit growth for u.s. corporations, it s been cut by about two-thirds. going from about 10% to 3 1/2%, so that s a big cut. we re definitely expecting a slowdown. again, this is temporary and so far, we re still expecting a recovery and it s not going into multi-year recession. charles: dan. well, you know, my concern, charles, is more related to the economy overall than it is to the stock market. i agree with erin, that the market is going to come back. this is ultimately going to settle down and everybody stays calm. we re going to be fine. however, let s look at what behavioral changes are going to come from, shall we say, the panic. elon musk just says this coronavirus panic is dumb for what that s worth. i don t know if i agree with him, but bringing to light that people s reaction right now may be a little overblown. so when we talk about the economy, to me, it s about people s confidence, it s how they feel, and right now, day after day, not good news, more spread, more uncertainty, that s keeping people home. and whether some of these behaviors are going to continue, we ll have to see. you can look at historically again through the stock market and see how long investors remain fearful and in general, when you look at high volatility, high market days, it fairly lasts more than four months. we eventually develop a tolerance and come back and the specific stock markets, particularly yesterday s session, which in the last few minutes of trading, it was a remarkable rally attempt ahead of a weekend, which is unusual since this thing began. and a recession two negative quarters in a row. one thing for certain, january and february were monsters, when i say almost every single economic data point that came out in the last three weeks was positive, including with this jobs report, and it s not just 273,000 last month. 730,000 americans went back to work in the last 90 days. that is a huge, huge economic news. and cheering as well that s huge, that helps us as we deal with this uncertainty dan is talking about. it certainly does, but one of the best quips i heard and we know that the fed cut rates is first kind of intermeeting emergency intervention since the financial crisis, but as somebody quipped the fed doesn t have a vaccine. so, yes, we have these super strong underpinnings, we ll remind that jobs number was amazing on friday, but it did not account for, obviously, any of the coronavirus fears. you know, we know that goldman sachs has said absolutely zero profit growth this year. charles: as a worse case scenario? that is the . charles: the baseline scenario. the fed can t cure the coronavirus, but can stave off a crisis or the negatives of a declining wealth effect. people may not go shopping today because they re worried about getting a virus, but it s about the demand not going away and that demand stays there you still want to buy an iphone and go somewhere if you think you have the money to do it. plus the retailers are might. there are lines around the block for costco and walmart and they re willing to go out for certain things. and the massive home sales, as the interest rates go down and mortgage rates go down, and the warmer when the up up from a year ago and to your point. initial jobless claims on thursday declined. so right now, in terms of real economic impact, in the last week of this economy, fewer people filed for unemployment insurance, not more. at least on the business level, maybe people are being asked to work from home, but they re not being laid off yet. i think you re absolutely right, charles. all the economic data we re getting to this point is tremendous. where do we go from here? if we re going to start seeing companies telling employees to stay home and not everybody can work from home, so the impact of that, should it become widespread is do we have people that are going to be losing some of their disposable income and then they don t have that money to spend. charles: dan, when you tell us you can t make it to the studio that s when i m worried. until then i m don t worry about that, charles. if you re here, i m here. charles: thank you very much. i want to get to the tornado that ravaged tennessee. country music stars have been racing to the rescue there. one of them is here with us. i use rakuten to get cash back in-store and online. or anything i want to buy is going to be on rakuten. rakuten is easy to use, free to sign up and it s in over 3,000 stores. i buy a lot of makeup. shampoo, conditioner. books, food. travel. shoes. stuff for my backyard. anything from clothes to electronics. workout gear. i even recently got cash back on domain hosting. you can buy tires. to me, rakuten is a great way to get cash back on anything you buy. rack it up with rakuten, sign up today to get cash back on everything you buy. i think mick as done a great job. i think that mark will do a great job. i m going to miss him in congress, he s a great friend and i think he s going to be a tremendous asset to the white house and to president trump. charles: well, mick is out and mark is in. president trump announcing north carolina congressman mark meadows will replace mick mulvaney as white house chief of staff. kevin corke is in west palm beach with more. good to be with you. and listen, this is an easy call for the president especially when you consider how tell two men worked in the past. and that they speak on an almost daily basis which tells you a lot about the relationship. it means that obviously meadows is one of very few people that the president truly trusts. he has trusted here and that says a lot about his prospects. as you know, meadows will be replacing the acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney in that role. mulvaney has been wearing a few hats including heading up office of management and budget and he ll leave that post as he s the u.s. special envoy to northern ireland. and we expect the acting director to be dominated to that post on a permanent basis, something we ve been looking forward to for quite some time. as for the president, he had a fairly busy friday and leaves the tour over to the c.d.c. in atlanta and made his way over to tennessee, which as you know has been hit by devastating tornados. primarily in the center of the state. he had a chance to see the devastation and talk to some people and promised the full weight of government and tornados ripping through the middle of the state. the scenes as you know were truly devastating. as is customary, it should be a quiet weekend for the president, but that means he ll be checking twitter feed and our sources over at the white house to see if anything changes. if it does, i promise to let you know. for now, back to you. charles: kevin, thank you very much. nashville and the country music area are coming together. country music singer ray stevens helping out again and joining us from nashville. ray, thanks for joining. good to be here. charles: we saw some of the events that have already taken place, all heartwarming. explain exactly more of the things that the country music community is doing. well, you know, tennessee is known, as you probably know, as the volunteer state and it certainly is true because there s been a tremendous outpouring of support for the devastated areas. president trump was here and with marsha blackburn and lamar alexander, our two senators and governor bill lee and mayor john cooper have been very busy and you know, john rich has had a all the proceeds from his nightclub or going to relief and billy graham s organization called samaritan s purse, is here in town. and cfmt which stands for community fund of middle tennessee, and the address is cfmt.org, they are accepting donations. and i want to say that my cabaret showroom here in nashville, thank goodness we weren t hit, but people around us were hit and we re having our opening for the 2020 season this coming thursday, the 12th of march and the proceeds from that night are going to go to cfmt.org. so come on out, folks and see the show and help nashville recover. charles: there s no doubt about it, 24 reported deaths so far, again, you re right the volunteer state living up to the moniker. what else can other people do if they re not in tennessee or the nashville area to so some support here, ray? well, like i said, cfmt.org is the place to send donations and it s real easy to do. dial them up online and that, again, stands for community fund of middle tennessee. charles: the event with john rich, we had a reporter there. it looked like it was fantastic, absolutely phenomenal. how long will these events go on to help raise the money? because it looks like it s going to be a pretty expensive rebuilding effort. yeah, it s going to take some time and i wouldn t be surprised to see events like this go on for a long time. i heard recently that ed lee s barbecue is on the scene down there feeding the folks in the areas most hit who are trying to clean up and rebuild, so i mean, nashville is coming together. charles: it really is. folks, make sure if you are in the nashville area, ray stevens, the cabaret show march 12th. you know, i wish i could get down there, ray, but you know, maybe send us up a video or something and bless you for what you re doing. we appreciate you taking the time today as well. thank you very much. thanks for having me on, charles. charles: well, the super tuesday saw a huge turnout. could it be telling us how things could happen in november? will we see the same turnout? s get 1-to-1 goal-based advice where and when you want and real-time goal tracking online. ameriprise financial all right. folks, you re looking at bernie sanders holding a campaign rally in dearborn, michigan, a state that he was able to win against hillary clinton and one that many believe will be the make or break state for him next week as the next round of voting in the democratic primary process continues. of course democrats overall hoping for a big turnout in michigan and other primary states this tuesday after a big turnout on super tuesday. so what does this enthusiasm mean for the general election in november? they re back, lee carter, nathan ruben and kelly jane torrance. let me start with you, nathan. the democratic party, bigger turnouts, but there is one, one glaring red flag, the youth turnout hasn t lived up to the hype. well, the youth turnout as a share of the electorate certainly has not increased. in overall numbers turnout is up across the board, whether that s the trump effect or whether they re excited to vote for the democratic candidates. we did see on super tuesday, the political revolution that bernie sanders was hoping for turned up, but they voted for the other guy. now up to 1.3 voters in the democratic primary this past tuesday. and joe biden won that state by 30 points. charles: we should point out, kelly jane, as well the turnout for president trump has been higher than it was when president obama was the incumbent. in other words, there seems to be an equal amount of enthusiasm on the republican side which is interesting, listen, many of these states there s only one person to vote for and still in texas i think more people turned out for the republican party than they did for the democrats. yes, i found at that fascinating, charles. i know a lot of never-trumpers as they describe themselves and they thought that there was really a chance that somebody could primary president trump and win. well, bill weld, the former massachusetts governor is still on the ballot, joe walsh and they dropped out. they don t need to vote for president trump, he is going to win the republican nomination again, but the fact that there is interesting. we might see less of that in michigan though because you don t have to be a registered republican or democrat, you can vote for whichever ballot you decide to pick so some people may want more say since it matters more in the democratic one, but i think that people are underestimating some of that enthusiasm for president trump among republicans. charles: here is the interesting thing, is that political expert, lee. i ve always been told that people vote for something rather than against something. yes. charles: and it feels like the overarching theme in the democratic party is to vote against president trump, that somehow that one particular goal will unite a really disparate party. we ve seen on display how far apart they are on issues. charles, you re getting on something because i ve never seen an election people are generally voting for something and in 2016 voted for donald trump, voted for barack obama before that. this is not the same kind of thing. when you look at polling numbers, about 40% decide in the last 24 hours, who would would vote far, in virginia, 60% the last 24 hours who they re going to vote for. that doesn t mean they re an enthusiastic voter, when you look at the virginia numbers, north carolina numbers, this is a very energized democratic party and almost doesn t matter who they re voting for, they re voting against donald trump. now, layer that against the republicans who are going out in record numbers and voting in the primary as well for donald trump right now and in the case you re talking about when they don t need to show up and showing up 25% more than when barack obama was incumbent. so we ve got energized on both sides. charles: it s intriguing that this political dynamic is occurring in the primary season. it s fascinating. i don t think that we should underestimate biden supporters, we shouldn t say that biden is going to be an easy candidate to beat for president trump. they have a very, very energized support base. charles: can he stay there, if bernie s voters they re less likely perhaps to now, but the look at the brokered convention, will they show up? you don t have to lose a lot of bernie bros for the election. and president trump has a lot of advantages being the incumbent. no matter whether you re joe biden or bernie sanders, there are democrat ics who say they would never vote for bernie sanders and others that won t vote for biden. charles: in the sweeping win, you need the left side of the party and you need the bernie bros to participate and i don t know how their feelings are going to be assuaged between now and the election. it s a great question. in 2008 we had a heated primary between hillary clinton and barack obama at the time and in the end we came together and i think we ve got to find a way to coalesce and unite whoever the nominee is by the time we get to november. it s also going to be interesting to see what happens with the sanders supporters. you remember 10 to 12% of bernie sanders if you can get to 15% voting for donald trump, that s going to make it harder for biden in the key states he needs to like michigan, like ohio, like pennsylvania. he has to win the states. charles: and quick, in less than a minute. kelly jane, i still think this youth inning is a problem for democrats. in texas 30% were over 65, and vermont 11% were over 30. and i think when they start with a woke party, the party of black people, hispanics and women and progressive and showing how progressive they were and it s not working out that way. and you may see more youth turnout in michigan. charles: it s interesting, all of these states on super tuesday not one state had more than 20%. we did not see that in the midterm, i don t know what went wrong. people have gotten thewes ac achl they ve got enthusiasm. biden is smart to stick with who he knows who goes out to vote. charles: and protesters, is it time to rush secret service to all candidates on the trial. folks, did you see this? joe biden s wife jill blocking protesters storming the stage in los angeles on super tuesday. well, now some are calling for the secret service to protect the candidates and the agency says it s looking into it, but should taxpayers be on the hook for this? retired chief of service agent dan emmett isn t so sure about it. thank you for joining us. good morning, charles. charles: that was a frightening scene. this woman, you know, listen. if her intentions were different, the news story we could be talking about today could be different. that was really pretty frightening. yeah, you know, i don t know that biden actually needs secret service, i think his wife is doing a pretty good job from everything that i could determine. but both of these guys are eligible right now to have secret service. all they have to do is ask. the secret service began protecting major candidates immediately following the assassination of robert kennedy back in 1968 and so each candidate has to meet certain benchmarks in order to qualify for secret service both sappeders and biden have done that, it is optional, however, it s not mandatory, they don t have to have the protection, but they have to ask for it. so if they want it, they ve got to ask. well, how does that work? before super tuesday would joe biden have been eligible and the media written off? he was coming in fourth and fifth place in a lot of places, what would think he would qualify as a significant or major candidate? charles, there are several things that a candidate is supposed to be able to qualify for, including matching funds, having entered in 10 different primaries and so on. however, there are ways around that. for example, barack obama was afforded secret service protection almost two years before the actual election. so based upon the threat level and other factors, the candidate can actually receive protection prior to meeting those requirements. but in this case, again, both biden and sanders do qualify. charles: well, that s great to know and of course, onus on them to ask for it. i want to take this moment, secret service has this unsung job protecting so many people and things and it s remarkable. is it an evolving process? because it s hard for us to see where there may be glaring problems or issues, but you have to the secret service has to be in front of this. the secret service does such a great job, quite frankly, charles, because of the training they receive. the training is ongoing. it never stops. everyone that has already been selected to be on one of these details has undergone weeks of training at the rally training center in maryland. they are prepared, they re ready to go, and they, quite frankly, are totally committed to the mission. in my view, however, the secret service should not be protecting candidates until the candidate actually becomes the nominee of their party. all of these candidates are more than able to pay for their own protection. and i really don t see that they being private citizens should be all of this protection should be footed for the taxpayer. it costs literally millions of dollars to protect these people. so do they need protection at this point? probably. should it be secret service, okay, maybe, as long as the candidate is willing to pay for that protection. they should be writing the secret service a check for this. charles: that s a fantastic point. otherwise bringing in their own people. charles: a 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[ fast-paced drumming ] new reports of a hotel collapse in southeast china, building was used as a medical observation center for people who were in contact with the coronavirus victims. at this time there are no reported deaths. but at least 33 people have been rescued from the wreckage. we will continue to monitor for updates. buyers beware. coronavirus scams are popping up online from fake coronavirus cures and remedies to fake charities. cyber security expert lisa garber joins us now how to be avoid being in these scams. everywhere i read, it s etsy and amazon and it s an avalanche. they haven t done a good job. you can go online and find a cure for the coronavirus or how do we protect ourselves? yeah, the cures they re hocking are coconut oil based or algae. sometimes there s a scandalous event or huge event in the world or u.s., you ll see the scams pop up in the cyber world and they re spreading just as dangerously. it s on social media platforms and in amazon on online, it s worse than whack-a-mole, it s trying to make money off people s fears. charles: is there something you re the expert, right. is there something we can do that regular folks can do? because the misinformation from the number of deaths to how this things spreads and how to combat it really are starting to pour into society. definitely. charles: you re starting to get people saying i read something and it s completely wrong. and that s the whole fake news debacle as well. we see the platforms trying to take down the fake stories and fake cures and price gouged items, to, and hand sanitizer with $2 bottles and phishing e-mails looking like an e-mail from the government or c.d.c. and click on the attachment and they re not going to send an e-mail and they re not going to ask you to open up an attachment with your e-mail credentials, you have to look if it s e-mail if it s dot-gov or dot-org. you have to be really skeptical. charles: if someone is skeptical, but intrigued, is there some way or somehow or entity or place they can check? definitely, stick to the real government websites, go right to the c.d.c., right to the world health organization, these are where we should be looking, don t look at facebook ads go right to the source, go right to fox news, the trusted sources. charles: should amazon and others do more? because of the section 230 of the decency act, they don t have to police much because they re not held liable. a lot of flat forms like facebook and twitter, twitter is trending a know the facts hash tag, but as much as they pull down, it s not enough. charles: you re saying to an agr agree degree it s voluntary then air part. facebook has a team of thousands to review what people are posting, it s not enough. we have to use artificial intelligence. until we get to that point lisa, you re the best. and not only will we survive all of this, we will thrive after all of this. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. my focus is on the road, and that s saving me cash with drivewise. with our moving and storage solutions. pack what you want, we store it for as long as you want. then, we deliver it where you want, so whether you need to move or store your things, pods is here to help you with flexible moving and storage solutions. hey, folks, i don t want to minimize the risk of the serious health scare and it s around the world, and it s here in the united states, but i do want to remind you how resilient we are in this country. while the markets are down, we re down 8% for the year, we re down more than that from the all-time highs. history shows we always bounce back. look what happened since the great depression, world war ii, 9/11, the financial meltdown, no matter what the world throws at us, we always, always come back. and that s why you need to watch me every day on making money on the fox business network. i m going to talk about the scary stuff, but also the factual stuff to help you get through a every day 2 p.m. eastern time. for now keep it here for all of your breaking news. florida officials now confirm two people in that state have been killed by the coronavirus. that brings the national total up across the u.s. to 14 people dead, it also marks the first coronavirus deaths that we ve seen so far here on the east coast. some bad news to kick off the hour here, it s going to be with you here live from washington, i m gillian turner. leland: nice to be with you, nice to be with you at home as we re learning about the condition of the people before they contracted the coronavirus, this is the key part of this.
first coverage. john roberts at the white house with the battle against the virus is taking center stage. good afternoon to you, charles. at least on the right side of the ride. the stocks finishing up more than 1,000 points higher passing through those session highs, but not without bouncing around. this was all after a 2,000-point drop yesterday they continued fear about the coronavirus and huge plunge in oil prices. let s look at the play-by-play. the open was strong. we had uncertainty creeping in. a midday rebound after vice president mike pence that the biggest health insurers would cover coronavirus testing. strong rally here into the close as well. much of today s optimism was on stimulus help from washington to help combat the problem. page sipaid sick leave. hearted approach for hard-hit industries like cruise lines and airlines. then there is oil. after that massive 25% plunge yesterday, it bounced back by more than 8% today but lingering under $35 per barrel. there is a question mark there. that s a little unwind of what we called the safety trade on wall street. finally the yield on the 10-year u.s. treasury note recovering. it s a little pause or gas with but of air. they all led the rally today. apple, home depot, mcdonald s, all companies with very significant exposure to china. charles, the uncertainty remains. that is the problem on wall street right now. we are going to have to continue to watch this. charles: we certainly will. thank you very much. president trump pushing for tax cuts as part of his coronavirus response. even some republicans are pushing back. good afternoon to you charles. the president up there on a for the senate g.o.p. policy at lunch today. a chance to rub shoulders with his republican colleagues. he took the treasury secretary up to the hill with him today. here s what the president said when he emerged from the meeti meeting. president trump: we had a great meeting. tremendous unity of the republican party. we are working on a lot of different things. very good updates on the virus. that is working out very smoothly. tremendous people. it is a tremendous task force. let s put on the screen some of the ideas that president was talking about. we have this confirmed from several sources. he talked about a possible full exclusion of the payroll tax cut. that would be employees and employers. basically taking the 12.4% fica withholding as it is called down to 0%. i president i m told like the idea of making that permanent. wait a second. where d you get the money from to replace that? apparently there are some ideas that they could backfill it from general revenues. the president expanding paid leave, loans to small businesses and tax relief for industries hit hard including potential some relief for the shale oil industry. no real plans for senators to sign off on. it s just a series of ideas. here s what the treasury secretary said about it. i would not say it s a negotiation. we are having discussions about various different policy. the president and vice president had a very good lunch with republicans. we spoke to them about the ide ideas. i think there s a lot of interest on a bipartisan basis to get something done. some lawmakers are worried that this may be a big bullet too soon. the airline industry as we did after 9/11. the cruise ship industry, shale oil producers. protection rather people who have to stay home from a job. self quarantined. putting it out there with a 12.4%. that is a little bit too big too soon to do that. hold out and reserve may be, charles. charles: we will see. it s going to be a battle. we have some breaking news. we are going to go live. a press conference of the government enforcing a containment area in the path of the coronavirus outbreak. speech of the guard will not have a military or policing function. they will be here to assist with logistics. the city itself has activated its emergency operations center so that we are ready to coordinate it with the guard and with other state authorities to whatever degree they recommend and whatever degree would be constructed. hand sanitizer. as you know, the state has created its own brand of hand sanitizer. a significant shipment of that sanitizer has been brought to new rochelle. the city is correlating with the state in order to deliver that sanitizer to large institutions. to those but not exclusively those that serve senior citizens. it is not available to the generapublic. if that changes we will make an effort to get the word out. several days ago, it was announced that nursing homes and assisted living facilities would no longer be able to accept visitors. we recognize this is a hardship for many people in our community. it affects my own family. my mother is presently at one of the nursing rehabilitation centers. my brothers and i are not able to visit her. it s painful for us and painful for her. we all recognize that it is in the service of public health goals. seniors and those with compromised immune systems and compromised respiratory systems are at greatest risk for this virus. we want to do everything possible to make sure that it is not spread to the vulnerable populations. our senior center will be closed until further notice for the same reason. we will be delivering cold meals to vulnerable seniors beginning on thursday. that is one example of the fashion and that city thinks to think comprehensively of how we can assist those in need. it s very important to reiterate the same reminder that we hear from the governor every single day. the vast majority of those who contract coronavirus will recover without difficulty and will recover without hospitalization. it is a relatively small fraction of individuals again, principally seniors and those with compromised health that will face more difficult challenges. it s important always to get that into perspective. i would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks and a thanks of all people in new rochelle for the exceptional leadership that has been provided by the governor, the county executive, and by there irespective officials. we have been collaborating with them since the beginning of this process. we feel as though their attention and focus on the statewide challenges has been exceptional. i also want to express special thanks to the young israel of new rochelle congregation. as many of you know, although this affects everyone in new rochelle, the heaviest burdens have fallen on the members of young israel. charles: that is the mayor of new rochelle, new york, the governor of new york declared a special zone a buffer zone if you will. and now the mayor clarifying some of the particulars of that zone. we will continue to monitor this press. i want to bring in democratic strategist and market watch. let me start with you. i ve got to tell you. despite all of the initial political bickering and some of the finger-pointing that still goes on. i think it is these kinds of efforts that the american public needs to see and wants to see. and i m glad that it is starting to happen. yeah, we need to see our leaders take this seriously. i think one of the big issues and big worries piercing the market is that not enough people are getting tested. there is a message coming from the white house that is very different from what we are hearing from the cdc. the administration needs to speak with one voice. i think that will alleviate a lot of the concern. charles: it is interesting. everyone is a epidemiologist and an expert on the stock market as well. especially people that did not know that it went up so much over the last three years. yesterday, he gave president trump and vice president pence a shout out. i think folks watching this show are saying hey, for a moment, let s put away the political stuff and get to the hard decisions that are being made. some places are debating closing schools. look at italy. the entire country to try to curb this thing. think this is what the country needs to see. one of the biggest thing in my conversation with people around the administration, a big part of this is messaging. people on both sides of the aisle say that the administration has done a good job of messaging here. trying to stem any fears or panic going overboard with the effects of the virus. again, we have seen this in the market. the markets they have been doing a little bit better today. they have been thinking on how the virus has being the biggest threat to the economy since the 2008 financial crisis. trying to provide some sort of economic relief package and working with members on both sides of the aisle again to combat this. it is a very serious time right now. everyone is fully focused on this. this is ruling all coverage. i was on the hill today. it felt like the same response that we had during impeachment. crowds of reporters try to get answers. so we will see. charles: let me bring in larry. because he does watch markets for living. a great excuse for anyone who wanted an environment in part after president trump came out and said b card the markets are looking for some good news and looking for pro-growth policies to continue. certainly if they have become concerned. they are concerned about the election and tax policy. we know that most of the small businesses most of main street the last thing they want to see our higher taxes. that doesn t mean that lower taxes are going to solve all of our problems. they not be the solution, but we want to see those combined with pro-growth policies. everyone is concerned about how this is going to play out. what is going to be the impact on the deficit when this is all said and done? for now, we will relish on a positive note. we are hoping this can be the start of some confidence. uncertainty on wall street shows up on main street. we have to keep people, dead, because we live in a consumer driven economy. charles: you re absolutely right. we have oppressor thank you very much. new york governor deploying the national guard and establishing the 1 mile wide containment zone in new rochelle, new york, to help contain the spread of the coronavirus. six lawmakers contained themselves. we ll talk with the one that met with president trump last week. president trump did not seem too worried about getting sick, himself. translator: i don t think it is a big deal. president trump: i feel extremely good. but we need something better. that s easily adjustable has no penalties or advisory fee. and we can monitor to see that we re on track. like schwab intelligent income. schwab! introducing schwab intelligent income. a simple, modern way to pay yourself from your portfolio. oh, that s cool. i mean, we don t have that. schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. charles: six lawmakers are under self quarantine after interfacing with people who later tested positive for the coronavirus. one of the lawmakers joins me now. thanks a lot for joining us. hey, charles, always good to be with you. charles: how are you feeling? i m feeling great. if that s the point that i want to make. yesterday about 1:15 we had been in contact with someone. we wanted to follow the protocols. the protocols are working. i think we had a previous guest that said the administration that could not be further from the truth. there are people that need testing, the people who are sick. anybody who is sick and showing symptoms are able to be tested. we are taking appropriate measures from there. we wanted to make sure we are doing what we needed to do. i can get back on friday and get back out to do what we need to do outside. charles: when and how did you find out? how long afterwards it was it that you actually came in contact. you have been shaking hands with president trump. we found out yesterday at 1:15. it had been a while. we came in contact with this individual on thursday. we had done a lot of interviews that day and a lot of folks came up with 200 fixtures greeting folks. it appears that the individual who tested positive gouda photo with a person and probably was not with him more than a minute. we wanted to make sure that we took the precaution, because we are out in public. there is a lot of folks who are concerned about what s going on. when you follow the protocols with people who come in contact with someone who has tested positive, things will be okay. it s also that just coming in contact with someo does not automatically mean that you get the vis. that is what we are working on. that is the message we wanted to get out. charles: six lawmakers on self-quarantine. a lot of talk and chatter in washington, d.c., on the next move. early the markets were up 5% and gave it all the way. i attribute some of that to the noise out of d.c. the american people are watching very closely. can the two parties come together and put some sort of fiscal policy together that will assuage main street and also help these markets? i think that is something they are definitely looking at right now. not simply opening up a checkbook to give away funds. i think washington, d.c., has continued. the administration has a clear stance on how we are fighting this virus. last week funding for this. there is some concern at washington, d.c. in a week that we are concerned about the coronavirus, unfortunately, the democrats are putting a bill on there that would take the president s authority away to help and do exactly what the president did when he curtailed china. we have to get better than this. we have to not use this to politicized events. people who are affected, especially the seniors, the vulnerable population are at higher risk for wash their hands. go to the doctor and get tested if they are sick. not politicized what is going on right now. charles: to you so much for joining us. be safe. we appreciate your public service announcement. we cannot say those things you said often enough. thank you. thanks a bunch. 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michigan understand that there are very substantial differences between joe biden and myself. joe biden also got a lot of attention today for treating many auto plant workers with smiles and handshakes. but one fiat chrysler worker with a four-letter word. 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[bleep]. charles: that man claimed that he heard i m saying something about his record on guns in the second i met him in. voters in early states are not just taking primary candidates based on personali. they were real policy concerns in a lot of places as well, charles. charles: thank you very much. another colorful encounter. it is joe biden in a different way getting ahead of the game? according to a new report, biden is already discussing potential cabinet members on his administration. i want to get the read on this from joe lieberman. thank you for joining us. thank you, charles. charles: we never saw were so many candidates dropped out of a race and immediately pivoted and endorsed the person that slings and arrows have been going to. apparently, a lot of premises have already been made. maybe getting ahead of himself here? yeah, i think so. when i was in the ascendant, i work in the governmental affairs committee to create a program which was created to give nominees of the major parties for president funding after they get nominated to begin to get ready to take office so they don t have to delay once they get into the oval office, which ever wins. but this is a little early. the story i read it in the paper. it seems like rumor to me. in some ways, it may be clever by some people if it s real. it appeals to some of the people whose names i mentioned. frankly, it can scare people away. in other words, elizabeth warren mentioned as secretary of treasury. they could have an impact not a good one on the stock market. charles: the sound out of the encounter that joe biden had with a worker a union worker. of course, he laid out a couple of curse words there. adamantly defending his position saying that this guy was wrong. this is the biden that maybe we saw back on the debate stage. he was feisty. he was loud. he was the one that took on corn pop. this is the one that has propelled him back in front. is this the double-edged sword that people have to get used to as he starts to feel like he has momentum? yeah. let me sound like an old timer for a minute. i don t like it when public office use like witch like that. look at joe. i spent a lot of my life with other politicians. we swear as much as anybody else, but usually in private. it ought to stay that way. secondly, joe is a fighter. he also brings a kind of calm to the race. it s part of why he has done so well and so many of the forces within the democratic party have so rapidly gathered around him as a kind of consensus candidate. charles: you think that he wants to be that blue collar you know, that grassroots. not the d.c. guy that only curses in a locker room at the senatorial but they guy that s going to give it to you straight. he starts to do these things a little more. i m not saying that it is planned and deliberate, but he s not trying not to do it. truthfully, it is part of joe. i ve known him for a long, long time. he is a regular guy. that s part of the appeal. as a regular guy with a lot of experience. i expect some of that back-and-forth and directness maybe he s thinking about getting ready for the debates with president trump which are definitely going to be of world wrestling caliber. i have less than 30 seconds. i want to ask about the washington, d.c., coming together and getting some sort of economic stimulus package together. i think wall street wanted to set a message early on. the bickering began. will they get the message? i hope so. i cannot agree with you more, charles. this is one of the moments where the enemy is not republicans or democrats. the enemy is the coronavirus. and how we are going to start it from hurting and killing people, god forbid, and hurting our economy. the way to do it is for president, congress, republicans, democrats, get together on a common program that will serve the national interest. the more they do that, the better the markets will do, and the more people remain out. charles: president trump calling for a stimulus to keep the economy going as coronavirus fears continue to grow. leadership weighing into a republican that has a problem with it. senator john kennedy is next. i m not going to vote for a bunch of bailouts. to be voting for a bailout, i have to be convinced. i m certainly willing to listen. i can t believe it. that chad really was raised by wolves? which one is your mother? that s her right there. oh, gosh. no, i can t believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. it s really great. well, i m just so glad to have met your beautiful family. and we better be sitting down now. believe it! geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. how we worship, or who we love. and the 2020 census is how that great promise is kept. because this is the count that informs where hundreds of billions in funding will go each year for things like education, healthcare, and programs that touch us all. shape your future. start here. learn more at 2020census.gov you can t claim that because it s inanimate! people ask me what sort of person should become a celebrity accountant. and, i tell them, nobody should. hey, buddy. what s the damage? 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he joins us now. senator kennedy, thank you very much for joining us. thank you, charles. did you give cavuto the day off? he s probably at home counting his money. it will take them all day and half the night. charles: you will need more than a day for that, for sure. how long will it take before we get a stimulus package to help against this coronavirus? we will know soon. the president came over today and had lunch with us. by us, i mean the republican senators. look, we ve got to face our fear. there s an old saying, if you face your fears, he robbed them of their power. number one, we are not all going to die. some of our people is going to get sick. we know that. the elderly some of our elderly. some with chronic illness. if you get sick, this is the best health care delivery system in the entire universe. and we are working hard on an antiviral agent vaccine. our economy is also going to take a hit. this economy is fundamentally sound, and will take a short-term hit. the president is working on a short-term stimulus package. he told us about it today at lunch. he hasn t decided just yet what he s going to do. i m not directing this to the president. i m directing it to my colleagues in the congress. i m not going to vote for a bailout package just to be voting for a bailout package. i want the statement is to be temporary. i wanted to be targeted. i want to know how it s going to work. but i m all ears. i m willing to listen, because it is true that our economy is going to take a short-term hit. i don t think it will be long-term. charles: some people believe the duration of that hit whether it is short-term or long-term could depend on the confidence level of this country to everyone does not hunker down and go outside, and whether we can offset some of the acute financial pains were some of the poor folks in the country. would you be okay with a payroll tax cut? i would certainly consider it seriously. of all of the alternatives that i have heard, that is the one at this juncture that i like the most. because it would help employers immediately, but more important, it would help employees. it would affect large companies, but also small businesses as well. and i like it. there are some other measures we are looking at to try to help. charles: paid sick leave. it is something to be considered. i m not sold on it yet. but my mind is open. charles: riding a check to the cruise industry and airline industry? i don t know the answer that. along with the president today at lunch, larry kudlow, the vice president. they are going to work on a stimulus package, come back and talk to us with specificity. and i will listen carefully. but when i made the comment about the bailouts, i meant them. i remember back when we just started bailing out companies willy-nilly after the meltdown in 2008. and i m not going to just about to start bailing out everybody right and left. i want to see some meat on the bones. charles: there is no doubt there s going to be a metoosim. it s an election year. a lot of people are saying we ve got a health care system that makes people afraid to take time off to make people afraid to self quarantine. they don t have the services or the income of someone in congress. so you have to be able to address those fears and assuage those kind of messiahs anxieties. let me say it as emphatically and poignantly as i can. we are going to be okay. we are going to be okay. some of our people will get sick. we ve got great doctors and nurses. and i think in a short period of time, we will have a vaccine. however economy is going to be a little rocky for a while. it is reflected in the stock market. but the fundamentals of this economy the strongest economy in all of human history. our intact. we are going to try to do everything we can within reason to try to smooth over those economic bumps. but this is taxpayer money we re spending. and i want to see the specificity of the plan, not just general platitudes. charles: i always appreciate your straightforwardness and your candy. thank you very much. thank you, charles. charles: meanwhile, president trump just moments away from presenting the highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. we will be watching. also passengers from that coronavirus-stricken cruise ship. one couple on board looking to make sure that cruise ship faces the consequences. i m still goin, even though i live with a higher risk of stroken, due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there s a better treatment than warfarin, i ll go for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. what s next? 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let s ask fox news judicial analysts. the inclination is to want to sue. of course. i mean, these people have been delayed and there can turn. they have been codified against their will. they ve been in an environment where the disease flourished. the question is, if they can reach a jury, can they persuade a jury that the people that were on the ship would have known about coronavirus? this cruise it started before we even knew the coronavirus was spreading the way it was. so it was novel to the people that ran the ship. and they were not prepared for it. how could they have anticipated the future? that would be the argument of the people that run the ship. at the passengers would say that you made it worse. you had inadequate medical attention, and you should i let her leave. interestingly i have not seen their tickets. every time i look at one of these things, the paper that you sign, you waive your right to sue. you can go to arbitration for negligence. there is an intentional act for which they can sue called false imprisonment, imprisonment, refusing to let them leave. false imprisonment is not in there. i don t know where this is going to go. charles: one thing that we do know with the cruise industry is that they have been plagued by rhino viruses and other viruses. other food poisoning outbreaks. there should be some contingency plan for something in the family something along the line of what is going on right now. if they case is not dismissed if somehow they can overcome the obligation to go to arbitration, to which they agreed long before they imagined this would happen, that will come out of discovery. how many physicians were on there? what was their training? really prepared for respiratory illness that would affect many dozens of passengers on that ship? did they realize by keeping them confined in that environment that they would get sicker rather than better? is it the fault of the government for not letting them land and disembark? because the government the government has made itself immune to. you can t sue the government for making a discretionary call like, we are not going to come to san francisco. you have to go to oakland where the dock is unused. charles: ironically, i saw an interview with another couple that were actually pretty happy with the way the cruise line responded under these terrible circumstances. we have a minute left. a lot of things are being canceled. a lot of programs and events are being canceled. i wonder if it is really extreme concern of legal issues particularly on something that may not be covered by certain insurance policies. i think people that have assets at risk will air on the side of protecting those assets. he has nothing. he may have some political risk, but he has no assets at risk if that rally goes forward. but certain things in confined areas, the owner of those areas does not want to end up charles: always a pleasure. we are looking live at cleveland. is cleveland, ohio. joe biden was supposed to have a rally here. he has canceled the event. it s over the covid-19. they are worried about it. we are still waiting on president trump presenting retired 4-star general the highest honor, the presidential medal of freedom. more after this. 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it s hard to know. it s a brand-new virus. we are learning a lot from what is happening abroad. what i think people in united states need to know is that this is very serious. we need to take us very seriously right now. older adults and people who have severe chronic medical conditions like heart disease, lung or kidney disease are really at risk for more serious illness or even death from covid-19, which is the illness caused by coronavirus. there are precautions that people need to be taking right now and every community. so that staying at home as much as possible. if you are an older adult or have one of those chronic medical conditions, make sure that you have several weeks of access to medications, to food supplies in case that you are stuck at home for several weeks. you go out in public, keep away from sick people and wash your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water. charles: we got it. and stay up-to-date. charles: doctor, thank you very, very much. from concerts to parades, how will all of these coronavirus cancellations hit our economy? 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here with the answers, we have gary here with us. that s what the markets are trying to figure out since this crisis started to blossom. nothing good if more cancellations come. we had a big healthcare conference in orlando. president trump was supposed to speak. cancelled out. 45,000 people not taking flights or cars from the airport. possibly spending money at the airport, no hotel reservations, no revenues from the conference, no airplane back home or the uber to their house. you re talking about a vicious cycle. fear tends to add up. you have so many of these other conferences seeing other conferences cancel, so they do it too. you throw in the wealth effect. you got some problems right here. i suspect earnings he come down and that s what you re seeing reflected in the market right now. i want to ask you about the session today. i saw the ivy league will cancel their men s and women s basketball tournament. nobody outside your town knew about this conference. everybody is waiting for march madness. something like that could have a psychological impact on the economy, couldn t it? absolutely. march madness is big time. if they announce but we re going to do it without fans, i m not so sure. lebron said something that if they do basketball games without fans, i m not playing. so yeah, it does change the psyche of people, which changes the psyche of the economy, which can have that bad effect. again, you add in the markets worldwide down 15, 20%, it s worrisome. so keep fingers cross, a cure sooner rather than later. real quick. today s session. just one step in a long one we need to go. i love that we were up 900, then down and finished on the high note. tells me the big guys are defending things here and hopefully that continues. it was the ultimate test. not bad. the dow up 1,100 points. one of the biggest point games in history. the five is next. dana: hello. i m dana perino with katie pavlich, juan williams, jesse waters and greg gutfeld. this is the five. joe biden curses out a blue collar worker in michigan and voters head to the polls for super tuesday 2.0. first, 352 delegates in six states are up for grabs tonight. joe biden with a big opportunity to build what could be an insurmountable delegate lead against bernie sanders in the fight for the democratic nomination. while the former vice president surges, his campaign is cutting down on the length of his speeches after another round of
vowing financial relief to workers and businesses. he also announced though restrictions on european travel. we have seen dramaticallily fewer cases of the virus in the united states that are now present in europe after consulting with top government health professionals i have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health and well being of all americans. to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. sandra: team fox coverage for you this morning kristin fisher standing by at the white house. we begin with jonathan serrie who is live in atlanta for us this morning. good morning. president trump s new travel restrictions caught them by surprise. take a listen. the european union disapproves of the fact of the u.s. decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation. chancellor angela merkel predicts 60% to 70% of her country s population will become infected with covid-19 since there are no treatments or vaccines for the virus and humans have yet to build up immunity to this new coronavirus. germany has confirmed approximately 1300 cases of coronavirus, including three deaths. that is a small fatality rate compared to other countries which some health experts attribute to germany s rapid testing as the outbreak emerged. italy has banned nonessential travel nationwide as that country reports more than 10,000 cases and 631 deaths. the highest numbers outside of china. chinese media report health officials have closed 14 temporary hospitals that were originally set up in wuhan where the outbreak began, suggesting the government is curbing the viruses spread in that country. here in the u.s. a passenger showing symptoms aboard a jetblue flight that was going from new york jfk to west palm beach, florida tested positive for covid-19. palm beach county authorities screened the other passengers and instructed them on how to monitor themselves before releasing them from the plane. crews were called in to disinfect the aircraft as well as the area where the passengers were allowed to disembark. sandra? sandra: jonathan serrie, thank you. ed: meantime the president announcing big actions he wants to take to cushion economic of the outbreak. kristin fisher is at the white house with the details. good morning, kristin. good morning, ed, unmistakable shift in tone from president trump during that rare oval office address. he called the coronavirus a horrible infection and agreed with the world health organization that it has now become a full blown pandemic. in an effort to try to contain it, last night president trump surprised the world by announcing that the u.s. was suspending all travel from europe to the united states over the next 30 days. and that those restrictions also applied to trade and cargo. but, almost immediately after the cameras turned off, the white house was forced to issue clarification that the suspension only applied to foreign nationals and did not apply to trade and cargo. even the president followed up on twitter by saying please remember, very important for all countries and businesses to know that trade will in no way be affected by the 30 day restriction on travel from europe. the restriction stops people, not goods. over on capitol hill today, the house will debate a bill that would institute paid sick leave, offer free coronavirus testing and secure free lunches for children. this comes as the first senate staffer tests positive for the virus. here at the white house, the vice president has been making the rounds on every network this morning and one of the biggest questions that he continues to be asked is what is the status of those coronavirus testing kits. we are working every single day to clear out any red tape to make testings more and more available. right now every state lab in america can conduct testing. any one of your viewers that may have a concern can call their doctor. their doctor can contact the state lab, and determine how to get a test processed. but there is still a serious backlog in terms of the number of people and doctors who want to be tested for the coronavirus and the number of actual americans that have actually been tested, ed. ed: all right, kristin fisher. thank you for those details we will get back to you as it warrants. sandra. sandra: let s bring in fox news contributor dan. good morning, sandra. sandra: good morning. there is so much to take in. as an american you have so much news coming at you. how do you digest that this morning? not easily, that s for sure. that s because of the coronavirus has become the order of the day. and we had the president announcing a ban on flights from continental europe last night, clarifying that it will not include cargo. it was striking to me, sandra, that the president was making this announcement almost at the same time the nba was announcing its going to suspend its season and as we are hearing that tom hanks and his wife had the coronavirus. so i think still there are a lot more questions out there that need to be answered. i was a little ambivalent about the ban from europe. i have a funny feeling that maybe the president himself was. clearly the stock market is going to take a tremendous hit this morning. the europeans are saying this is going to cause a hit to their economy. now, the economy is not the only consideration here. this is being done for health reasons. but i think a lot of americans are sitting out there wondering what exactly are we expected to do in terms of social distancing in the european flight ban is an extraordinary exercise in social distancing. but what about the rest of us? i mean, the idea of the moment is that if companies are closing, the government says they respect those decisions. but, are we doing the right thing? what kind of social distancing should be going on and what is the point of it? what is the purpose in trying to stem the spread of the coronavirus? angela merkel says 60% to 70% of her population will get it. do we think 60% of americans are going to get it? and, if so, what should we do about that? should we just resign ourselves to the fact that a lot of people are going to get sick? sandra: these are so many of the big questions we will be asking throughout the morning and the u.s. stock market will begin trading 23 minutes for now, dan. it is set for another steep sell off. limit down the futures right now so we could see another quadruple sell off in the open. we will be watching that your piece in the wall street journal this morning the democrats self-quarantine. you say the democratic presidential primary race is effectively over. did you go on to talk about the american public so preoccupied with the coronavirus and the spread of this disease that enthusiasm is leaking quickly from the democrats once entertaining gallery of once presidential candidates. it s an interesting take on the moment we are in now considering yesterday around this time, a couple hours after, this we got word that there was going to be a bernie sanders announcement at 1:00 p.m. eastern time yesterday. everybody said what is happening? is he dropping out? no, he is not. and indeed he did make a speech about his problem with electability in that moment. here is bernie sanders. while our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability. i cannot tell you how many people our campaign has spoken to who have said and i quote, i like what your campaign stands for, i agree with what your campaign stands for, but i m going to vote for joe biden. sandra: so no he did not drop out, dan. he s staying in the race. meanwhile, joe biden s camp put out a memo saying it s nearly impossible for bernie sanders to regain a delegate lead. so what is going on? i mean, count me among those who as soon as bernie sanders was saying he had an electability problem i thought he was dropping out. it just doesn t compute that he has an electability problem but he is staying. in james carville thinks it s over. jim clyburn says it s over; let s get on with the election. what is bernie doing? in hand sight i think it s pretty clear to me what he is doing. peterson is going to stay in primaries and probably get 35 to 40% of the vote going forward in the states he loses. and what he wants to say to the democratic party is you have to understand that what i stand for, my ideology, my socialism my socialism is something you will have to take into account when we get to milwaukee and that convention. he has his eye on the democratic platform he want to move the democratic party closer to his politics, to the left not to the moderate center that establishment democrats are insisting on right now. bernie is saying to them i m not leaving. it s not over until it s over, and you re going to move this party in my direction whether you like it or not. sandra: he very firmly put a message of that out there yet. a lot going on this morning. dan hen jerry thank you for your time. ed: as you were talking to dan the european central bank this is just breaking. they announced new steps. stepping up more stimulus. 19 countries in europe that they deal with are buying up to 120 billion euros more in bonds. that s on top of the 20 billion euros a month they were already buying. so you can see more action around the world dealing with the financial impact here. we will stay on top of that all morning. in the meantime, there is also a story about a massive law enforcement sting. that is targeting a brutal mexican drug cartel. project python resulting in hundreds of arrests all across america. sandra: and lockdown in italy. a student with dual citizenship, u.s. and italian, telling us what it is like to be living overseas in what has essentially become a nationwide ghost town. we need to move noun. iran and italy are in the front line now. they are suffering. but i guarantee you other countries will be in that situation very soon. so we all need to show that solidarity for each other. insurance so you only pay for what you need. what do you think? 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i m in rome. i m right down the street from the vatican. sandra: so, we are hearing bars, restaurants, most shops have been shut down. i heard you say that you have gone to the market. are you able to get food? i am. so the only things that are open as of right now, markets, tobacco shops, hospitals, things like that. pharmacies. that s the only thing. i was able to get food. it is really not that i guess drastic the measures they did take on food and closing of the markets. thank god hopefully it remains that way. the markets are pretty full so i was lucky. i haven t gone in like five days. i don t know what the situation is like out there right now. sandra: do you have a direct relationship with anyone who has become ill? i do not. i do not. i don t. sandra: thank goodness for that i m sure your family is worried but back home? yeah. i mean it s been back and forth battle if i should come home if i not. given trump s address we have until friday night to come home. i have been back and forth with my parents. [inaudible] and we are just pretty much trying to figure out a way what to do. the tickets are about 2,000, $3,000 for a one-way ticket. but it s really not about the price. it s more about the risk and the one that i would bring with me. sandra: have you stocked up on supplies there? i do. sandra: food, medicine? what precautions did you take? we have a bunch of stuff at home. we actually have a pretty small fridge. we have that full. we have things, you know, so much bread, so much water. we stocked up a lot to sustain the house for about two weeks. and then we will try to go out again. sandra: well, everyone is concerned back here and abroad. italy particularly hard-hit. you seem like you are in good spirits. that s a good thing to stay positive. yeah, i m always pretty much in good spirit. we are just taking it on a day-by-day situation. play it out, see what happens. i think that people the atmosphere here is people have no choice but to stay in and stay inside. people have to have auto certification that is like basically a written permit that let s them go outside and tells them for what reasons they need to go outside if you were to be stopped by the police and everything. sandra: that s for sure. people waking up and finding out that this virus is something that needs to be contained. if the government has taken such drastic measures and such extreme precautions there is a reason. people should listen. i m happy that the united states has kind of gotten in front of this this whole mess. and hopefully it proves that it is helpful, it s going to work. sandra: we really appreciate you calling. in and we wish you the absolute best. stay safe. stay healthy. thank you. sandra: stay well. thank you, thank you. sandra: we will follow up with you. thank you; ed? ed: the state department temporary pause of international exchange programs now. can you still see the global impact. we will stay on top of that several republicans on capitol hill taking precautions after coming in contact with someone who later tested positive for the coronavirus at cpac. congressman doug collins is our headliner. he is one of the lawmakers now under self-quarantine. we will check in with him at the top of the hour. brand new study suggests coronavirus could easily spread in the air. dr. marc siegel joins us on that next. hey i need a ride! here, hold this. follow that spud! the big idaho potato truck has been touring america. go right! no, your other right! it s been telling folks about america s favorite potatoes. heart healthy idaho potatoes. and making donations to local charities. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. so do i get my license now? i can t believe it. that chad really was raised by wolves? which one is your mother? that s her right there. oh, gosh. no, i can t believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. it s really great. well, i m just so glad to have met your beautiful family. and we better be sitting down now. believe it! geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. with our moving and storage solutions. pack what you want, we store it for as long as you want. then, we deliver it where you want, so whether you need to move or store your things, pods is here to help you with flexible moving and storage solutions. what are your thoughts on this study because people pick this up and they start worrying. that s what we need not to do. the typical study comes out can survive in the air. here s what you need to know, ed, it s a hearty virus scientists at princeton and hnih looking closely at this virus. survives on respiratory droplets and goes in the air stay alive three hours. it can live on surfaces for in a way that might effect you for 8 or 9 hours. ed: on that point of fact, let me just tell you, the study says up to four hours on copper, four hours on cardboard two to three days on plastic and stainless steel. results indicate aerosol and foam transmission of the coronavirus is plausible as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces for days. so that s what the study says. you say? two things, one, even if it s alive on a surface, it doesn t mean it can infect you. that s the more important thing. how long can it stay on a surface and infect you? we think most public health officials and scientists think that s several hours. the study is in keeping with that several hours. as you pointed out differential surfaces work differently. i want everyone out there to know the exact same results came from the previous coronavirus sars. so in 2002-2003, we were worried beyond belief about this virus. they compared these two viruses in this study and found no difference. ed: okay. so that virus ended up not being as contagious as we were worried about. ed: you are not that concerned. same context as the previous coronavirus. yes. ed: so the president, you talk about trying to calm people down, not worrying, the president, that was one of his goalgoals in this oval office address. we will get into. so criticism that his critics ultimately come up with what did you like about this speech? what worked? i liked that he was bold enough to decide to put a travel ban on europe even though that has huge economic consequences. do you know why? europe has a burgeoning number of cases the president s point was and we don t know if travel restrictions really have worked but we think they have helped. if they have helped and he went in with the travel advisories on china early, now a complete ban on europe, 26 countries for 30 days? wow, that s with france having over 2,000 cases and spain over 2,000 cases and italy close to 10,000 cases. ed: you think this will have an impact in a good way and deal with community spread here within our borders? right, exactly. our public health scientists showing the number of cases we have have here originated from europe. we are seeding our communities from europe that will cut that down. ed: on the negative side people are saying hang on a second the president did not spend a lot of time on testing. and a lot of doctors, like you say, it s key for us to figure out exactly how many people have this virus? i am still deeply concerned about this exact point. i think it s a vulnerability. i m not knowing that it s the president s fault but clearly it s a vulnerability. everybody keeps saying the test kits are there, they are there let me tell you the problem. medical centers like mine are saying don t go to your doctor right now if you have a cough, shortness of breath or fever. please don t come to the er. you hunker down at home. you call dr. siegel, he says i want to test you. i have been calling all over the place. i have the medium to test you with you about i can t get the results back fast that i want. it s still going to the city or state health departments. ed: are they overwhelmed right now. overwhelmed and slow. a couple days before i get a result. i want it to be hours. i want it to be hours so i don t keep people home for days waiting for a test result. that s where the improvement has to come. we need hundreds of thousands of tests around the country. ed: we have got about 30 seconds. the president had a shift in tone last night in the seriousness with this. you saw that with dr. fauci and the testimony on capitol hill. do you believe the federal government is ready? do you believe that we are in a place now where we are prepared for what s going to happen next? yes. if the tests come. yes, if we continue to isolate people properly. yes, if we have someone like dr. fauci up at the microphone. he s absolutely brilliant. i have known him for many, many years. this is a contagious virus. the one thing i would say differently than dr. fauci is this. historically, when these viruses spread for a while, they become less deadly, not more. and i think there is so much virus around that has not been diagnosed, very low symptoms, very minor symptoms, no symptoms at all, we are going to find that the death rate is well below 1%. that s where i think we are going to end up. that s reassuring news. ed: re assuring indeed. thank you. sandra? sandra: awaiting the opening bell from wall street a couple minutes from now. uncertainty threatening to fuel another steep sell off this morning. charles payne will take us through it. he will join us next. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. for the most part down 7. anywhere between 5 and 7%. 6 to 7%. this is 100 percent move already. in moments we will probably see the s&p gets down 7%, we will get the first circuit breaker. remember earlier this the week they went on that stops trading. ed: 15 minute pause. a pause so you can kind of collect yourself. what happens a lot of times, a lot of people aren t calling their broker right now. this is like machines, triggering machines, triggering programs. and it gets out of control. ed: calm it down. calm it down a little bit. so, a couple things here. first of all, i think wall street obviously wanted to hear more from the president in terms of specifics, bailouts and things of that nature. he focused more on the health aspects on what we are doing to curb, curtail mitigate. ed: he has to deal with both. charles: there is a curved track. economic consequences. we talk about this coronavirus impact on the economy. really what we are doing to stop the coronavirus that is having an impact on the economy. and these are more seen as more draconian measures but they also seem to have worked pretty well in china. the aggressive methods seem to be helping in south korea and, of course, italy just shut down 60 million people. we don t want to get in a position where we are italy kind of doing some things after the fact. i think there is more of an abundance of caution right now. ed: as you said that s the health side. on the economic side the president talked about his proposals. the fact that speaker nancy pelosi and other democrats seem to be completely dismissing his initial idea of a payroll tax holiday previously in the obama administration thought this was a great way to get money to people fast. without pointing fingers in any direction moving forward, what s the best prescription to get both sides together here to actually help the american people. charles: it s heart-breaking. president trump should try to get nancy pelosi in the white house today. no more intermediaries sit down and talk about this, let s not politicize it. it seems i don t understand why the democrats would be against a payroll tax cut. i just really don t. it helps small business employers a lot. it helps the employees a lot. i mean, talk about a trillion-dollar, you know, the whole package in the air would be worth a trillion dollars. ed: which would be a huge shot in the arm to the economy, obviously. a huge shot in the arm to the economy. really what we are trying to find a way to specifically focus on people who don t have cushions, right? we are not as concerned about the executives or white collar jobs as we are people like gig workers, right? we listen to the bankers yesterday after the close. the bankers got a chance to talk. i was really confident. i loved what they had to say brian moynahan of bank of america, others. our financial system is in amazing shape right now. ed: they were optimistic. they were saying this is not 2007, 2008. they pointed out specifically the most important comment this is not a financial crisis. this morning, the european version of the federal reserve, their central bank took action. they didn t cut rates,. ed: they didn t cut rates but offering more stimulus. stimulus and also pumping a ton of money into their banks. because they have a very fragile banking system. we are much more prepared and in better position with the bank saying they are going to waive fees, extend payment options. put out billions of dollars for small businesses. out obviously everyone is looking to washington, d.c. for more. and wall street certainly is trying to price in two things. when does this happen and what else happens? listen, the bail-outs, it s hard not to imagine we are not going to bail out airlines to some degree. ed: the cruise industry, you see their stocks getting better. it s a little tougher on the cruise industries not necessarily critically important to the economy as the airlines. business trips are taken. the airlines, you know, they are much more of a component of the overall business. ed: a lot to get. to say one being you just deed it up with the european central bank and their action today. the u.s. federal reserve, obviously expecting a rate cut on march 17th. talk about that. last time they cut rates, it seemed panicky and the markets reacted negatively. what are you watching for? charles: be real careful trying to assess the market s reaction to some these things because the market might have wanted more. the market might not have panicked because it was 5 50 bas point they wanted 100? we assign these sort of things because we see one thing and connect the dots. i think that s not right. i try to push back from that. particularly when it comes to the fed. regular days, on normal days, you know, because what they do normally, to be quite frank with you, these actions normally don t even really impact the economy for 12 months to 18 months. ed: right. what they are trying to do is get some calm and confidence and that s why people actually thought they should have been more aggressive. ed: you see the dow down almost 7%, almost 1700 points. talk about the president s action in terms of the european travel ban. he was very clear to clarify after on social media that this doesn t affect cargo. charles: right. ed: shipping, trade. charles: right. ed: the travel from europe. wall street is going to react to that? charles: it is going to react. we already know there was a report out last week. i think we talked about on the show from the international travel organization that said $113 billion in losses for airlines, 21 billion for u.s.-based airlines. we knew that listen, the planes are getting thinner and thinner. fewer receipts. airlines are having to park some of these planes anyway like they did early on with china. we knew there was going to be a major impact there i m glad about the clarification. this, again, brings up one of the things i suggested a few weeks ago, suspend the trade war for a moment, in fact, talk to president xi about bringing down his most favored nation status. ed: it didn t happen. it hasn t happened. but these are things that need to continue to go on. listen, this whole situation halls evolved. it certainly has evolved in the thinking and mind of president trump. so all of the things that he may have rejected or the white house may have rejected even 48, 72 hours ago should be. ed: worth looking at again. let s push it forward in terms terms of you were talking what b. what was on the table in terms of president s a moment ago. almost a trillion dollars in terms of the payroll tax cut through the end of the year. charles: right. ed: democrats in the house seem to reject that idea. is there a deal to be had here where the president could say let s do this through the summer? smaller price tag on the payroll tax cut and trade-off some of the child care, the free coronavirus testing and other things the democrats want? charles: the democrats aren t trying to be fiscally responsible here. not about a smaller dollar sign about how many more things they can get in there like extended unemployment benefits. ed: pardon me one second. trading has halted for the second time this week just as you predicted as you were talking. i didn t mean to interrupt. so you can see the dow is now frozen there, down 7.2%. just here in the last five, six minutes. charles: right. so it s not again, this is not about smaller dems aren t saying we want something small and quote unquote fiscally responsible. what they are saying is we want to put a lot of things in there some democrats have asked the president to remove his tax cuts. so these are far-fetched redicks columbus. ed: not going to happen. charles: right. again, you know, extended unemployment benefits. we have got the lowest unemployment rate in years. and. ed: decades? charles: right. you got to go back to when archie s were number one on the charts, right? i think that was in the late 1969. let s be honest about where we are. let s be specific about where we are. what does everyone agree on? small businesses must be helped. everyone agrees that those folks working on the front lines our healthcare workers must be helped. everyone agrees that people who don t have the wherewithal to go see a doctor because they don t have health insurance or afraid to miss work must be helped. the gig economy is huge. ed: yeah. charles: what do we do for those folks? there is unanimity helping out those folks. ed: reset the fox news alert the dow down 7.2%. this has been a very volatile market for a week or more down almost 1700 points. it s now been halted. trading halted for the second time this week. it was halted a couple moments ago. there was a 5 minute pause. bring back sandra. sandra, have you covered the markets for a long time. a very rare occurrence, now they are trying to calm everything down. sandra: i wonder if charles can sort of explain what this sell-off means in context? when you look at now the s&p 500 and the nasdaq are following the dow in the bear market territory when w. this sell-off the dow is off 20% from recent highs. historically, charles, that s important because once a market enters into that bear market territory, it spends some time there. so, does this tell you anything about where the markets may be a couple months from now? charles: it does. but, you also have to look at how the quickness of it. the timing of you who quickly we went into this bear market could also inform how quickly we can potentially come out of it. you know, yesterday, for instance, a lot of people talked about a major call out of goldman sachs where they are saying they called, you know that we go into bear market. we weren t that far from it. what was interesting though the analyst who made the call suggesting that the s&p can go down to 2450 which we are not too far from now but actually thinks by the end of the year it would be back to 3200. in other words, actually up for the year. so this gets back to your point. yeah, we entered into a bear market. we didn t drift into it. we plunged into it. can we get a v shaped recovery? can we go through extreme short-term economic pain where the country is set down like a scene from high noon and then as people come back on, as pent-up demand is met get a v shaped recovery. we will see what happens. sandra: ed, you probably remember, this too. charles, during the financial crisis, there were so many different barometers that we watched, including the vicks which is known as the fear gauge in the market. we are getting indication from our sister network fbn that the wall street fear gauge is now the highest that has been since the 2008 financial crisis, topping 65 for the first time since december 2008. what does that tell you, charles? charles: it means that people are buying protection to the downside and anticipate increased this volatility is going to be with us for some time. some people use that as also con trainer indicator when it gets too low and too complacent that the market is going to come down because it was very low and complacent in january. word is now you are actually going to have some folks on wall street think as contrarian indicator the market is oversold. speaking of 2009, since it has been brought up a couple times, i remember seeing avis rent acar stock 45 cents a share. i didn t buy it, i didn t sell it or own it. i know some people had to sell it for to get down there. by 2014 it was $69 a share. my main goal when i come on right now for these folks at 40 years old, you have a college fund and retirement fund, ironically, as you continue to contribute to it, you are going to inadvertently buying at the lows but most important, no matter what, how are, if you got a quality company or quality companies in your portfolio, make sure that you are not panicking that this fear index, you are not the one getting snader in that fear index. ed: good advice indeed. we are now told that trading is expected to restart about 9:50 a.m. eastern time. it was halted a few moments ago because the s&p was down 7%. the dow jones as you can see in the left corner of the screen down 7.2%. it s been a volatile market for a week or two, trading expected to start again, about 8 minutes from now, charles. charles: by the way, yes, i think it was yesterday, maybe we talked, i m getting so confused now. the idea was that one thing i said after tuesday night was president trump didn t show up for that presser, you know, when it was just vice president and the team, and the futures were flat. they immediately tumbled. right now president trump and congress, they are feeling the pressure. wall street is pressuring washington, d.c. also to do something. i have seen this kind of action when it s come to wall street and the federal reserve. they try to push them around to do something. have a greater sense of urgency. you think you are going to go on vacation. ed: a recess. charles: if you think you are going to be on recess while these markets are plunging think will keep plunging. this market is going to make d.c. act. ed: quick break, san draft something we have been watching all morning long. sandra: the dow off 1700 points before it halted training. 8 minutes from now, 7 minutes from now trading will resume on wall street. we have senator barrasso joining us blake burman is now reporting that the administration does not like the house dem s coronavirus package. so we have senator barrasso joining us in just moments to react. we ll be right back. we have like 40 years of data! that s incredibly valuable! .i.i don t know. when did we introduce siracha? 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enter into the picture as we have growing uncertainty over what happens next with this vice and you are certainly seeing those fears and uncertainty play out in the u.s. stock market this morning, senator. what can you tell us? well, what we have done in terms of the senate and the house signed by the president last week is very important because, until we get the medical side of this under control, the concerns on the market side will continue. we have now passed legislation. the experts say they have the money, the resources they need to develop vaccines to work on treatments to do available and more testing. all of that is important because, until the american public and the world believes that the disease itself is behind us, we re going to continue to have the concerns that you are seeing reflected in the market today. sandra: senator barrasso, we are getting word that some of your colleagues are deciding to shut down their offices due to this growing fears over the spread of this virus. mitt romney, tom cotton and others tom cotton just putting out an announcement just a short time ago. do you expect that operations on capitol hill will come to an end? no. some people will certainly be working from home. but, my concern are the people all across the country who find themselves in the exact same situation. we do now have a case of, a positive case in one of the senate offices. so we have been discussing that at a briefing this morning. it s what one would expect, given the number of visitors and tourists that come to washington to see our nation s capital. we need all take the precautions whether it s on the workplace on capitol hill or the workplaces around america to prevent the spread by covering when you cough, by washing your hands thoroughly. and if you are sick, stay home. sandra: and, of course, you are talking about the staff member in senator maria cantwell s washington, d.c. office. senator, this sell-off that you are looking at on your screen began last night. we have had several wild days for the stock market. but, specifically, this started as the president was delivering that speech, trying to calm fears over the coronavirus. what did you take away from his speech and was it effective? well, i thought the president was re assuring and realistic about the fact that we need to prevent the virus, additional people from coming to the united states but also what we need to do at home to prevent the spread at home and to work on treatment and vaccine and early identification. the testing is so much a part of that to know how many people truly are affected and infected. that is a key part of this. but i think the president set the right tone in terms of what government can do now to help people. i think we need to do more to help people with paid sick leave, to make sure that those people who are sick will stay home or if they have to stay home for quarantine purposes, stay home to take care of someone who is out of school, out of work as a result of this virus, we need to do that to help those folks immediately. additionally, what the president has talked about with small business loans, that will be effective as well as what we can do by pushing back the date of the irs and the april 15th deadline for paying taxes. sandra: senator barrasso you just came out of that briefing. you come at this from an incredibly unique perspective that you are a medical doctor as well as a member from congress. do you believe we are having the right discussion in tackling this problem the best way that we can? we are absolutely having the right discussion. i would like to have seen more tests out there sooner during our briefing this morning lots of point gran poignant questione centers for disease control why there is a delay in testing. make sure we have the tests available so that people that have the symptoms of the shortness of breath, of the coughing, of the fever can get tested and can get the results back in a timely manner so they know if they have tested positive or negative. sandra: were you satisfied with the answers that you got from the cdc based on the lack of testing available? they are not yet at the point where i believe that we should be and the american people would expect from the centers for disease control, an organization with a tremendous reputation for the years, they are not quite there yet. sandra: that s a lot to say, considering we were told by the administration the vice president and others that if you want to be tested you can get tested, senator. so, and i want to point to the screen here. we are looking at trading has resumed on wall street with now more than an 1800 point sell-off on the dow. the first 20 minutes of trading after that 15 i minute halt, senator. could you tell us what you see happening next? there are parents waking up this morning and debating in their minds whether to drop their kids off at school. i mean, many schools in this country have closed. many others have not. for many americans and most americans this virus affecting them in terms of their health is very low. in terms of affecting people all across the country, in terms of the economy, it is affecting everyone. we need to act from a congressional standpoint on doing the things that will have an immediate impact on those families who find themselves in that situation. the best thing that we can do is through proper precautions, proper precautions and preventing additional spread of the disease, that s how we get this behind us and the economic recovery can begin. sandra: senator john barrasso, we really appreciate you coming on this morning. appreciate your time. thank you for having me. sandra: dow now off 2,000 plus points. ed: see that coming down. congress announcing as you were speaking to senator barrasso shutting the capitol house billings shutting to public tours through april. still remain open for senators, staff, the media and others. people who have business before the congress. you can see these steps that are just spreading around the world. sandra: we are going to keep watching these markets for you. senator john barrasso talking about the economic impact is what concerns him the most. whether or not to take your kids this school this morning he said most people will not be affected by. this fears playing out on wall street right now with the dows sinking to the lowest of the session. multiple circuit breakers in place, ed, to prevent an exacerbated sell-off. that 15-minute break is used to give investors a pause to assess a sell-off. that happened, trading resumed and now the dow is off 9 plus percent. ed: down almost 10% now. you asked a very important question with the senator as well whether the cdc is ready in terms of testing. he didn t seem as confident as the administration. something we will keep pressing. sandra: he just walked out of the senate briefing and that really stuck out to us. he said that the members of congress in the room were really pressing cdc officials for more testing kits. where are those and why they are not being provided at a quicker pace. he had a problem with that. ed: earlier saying that is a big issue that he has been dealing with people, as a doctor, who are wondering what do you do? and a lot of people around the country will call their doctor. they want to be tested. they are referred to a state health department. a lot of these state health departments are overwhelmed right now as you can understand because they are trying to sort all this out. they are trying to be as responsive as possible. on the economic side you have been focused on the dow down 9% there was that brief pause of about 15 minutes earlier this hour so that everybody could calm down, re-set. they have come back, it s trading again and it s further down. sandra: and the ban on the european travel, obviously, was a big news item coming out last night. you have to talk about i mean, you look at the stock market sell-off and some of those individuals names in stocks are getting hit in our u.s. stock market. are those travel oriented stocks. the big airlines, the cruise lines, all those tourist-related companies are struggling right now because people are halting travel. they re are deciding not to take trips that they had planned and might not be planning trips in the future. ed: absolutely. you heard charles payne say a short time ago he added a lot of time saying everybody should pause here and also saying should be a wake-up call to washington that there needs to be action. you can see the president put his proposal on the table. nancy pelosi and house democrats are pushing theirs. neither side likes the other side s plan. and so at some point, given all of this pressure, they are going to have to sit down and try to work all of that out. sandra: i want to bring this in. chad per gram is reporting from capitol hill at this time that the path of the coronavirus bill is uncertain today. and 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coronavirus, the vice president of the united states mike pence was out to all the morning shows trying to get the message out. here is he on fox & friends. but for every american, right now, as the president said last night, it s a good time to use common sense. wash your hands often. clean off-used surfaces. we will try to mitigate the spread. trying to prevent people from bringing coronavirus into the united states any further from europe. sandra: we have fox team coverage for you this morning. christina comey is covering theg the news that tom hanks and his wife have coronavirus in australia. we begin with rick leventhal in new rochelle, new york, a short ways from here. the site of a lockdown containment zone. rick, what are you seeing there? sandra, that containment zone is now in effect here in new rochelle and 140 national guard have now been activated in west chester county. and we now have video of some of those guard members passing out food to residents at a local community center. we have spoken with the mayor who says that this containment zone is not about restricting people and businesses. it s about restricting the spread of the virus. and the area of highest concentration and new rochelle is now home to the most dense cluster of coronavirus cases in america. that s why the governor of new york created this one mile radius containment zone where the temple with the virus spread right in the center of the circle. there are roughly 1,000 residents here quarantined inside that zone. they are expected to stay home, schools and houses of worship are closed and large gatherings banned. but businesses can stay open and the people not quarantined can move freely and the national guard is also expected to help clean the schools and public buildings and continue to serve meals to the quarantined and kids who won t be in school for at least two weeks. meanwhile, the governor of new york is also contracting with nearly 30 private labs who increase virus testing capacity because he says the cdc and fda cannot handle the demand. we can t just wait anymore. it s creating it s compounding the problem. and, frankly, they can t put us in this situation because we re not able to do our job and our constitutional duty, which is to protect the public health. we also have a developing story in west port, connecticut, which is another commuter suburb of new york city. a man who attended a going away party before leaving the country tested positive for coronavirus and at least 14 people who were at that party now are also believed to have contracted coronavirus. so that prompted the city of west port, connecticut to close public schools and close the public library for at least a week while they continue the testing there sandra? sandra: all right. rick leventhal in new rochelle. thank you. ed: meantime tom hanks announcing he and his wife rita wilson have coronavirus. filming a movie. the oscar winning telling social media we hanks will be tested observed public health and safety requires. not much more to it than a one day at a time approach. that from tom hanks. christina coleman is live in los angeles with more details. good morning, christina. good morning, ed, the celebrity couple is now in isolation at gold coast university hospital in australia listed in stable condition. the a list actors are in australia for untitled elvis presley film hanks presley s manager. the film was set to be released in october. warner brothers says production has been suspended. tom and rita are both 63 years old and clearly taking their coronavirus diagnosis seriously. hanks shared their symptoms with fans on instagram and twitter say ising in part, quote, we felt a bit tired like we had colds and body aches. rita had some chills that came and went. slight fevers too. play things right as things are needed in the world right now we were tested for the coronavirus and were found to be positive. also hanks is no stranger to health concerns. in 2013 he disclosed he had type 2 diabetes. chet hanks, the son of rita wilson and tom hanks doesn t appear to be too worried about his coronavirus diagnosis though. here is what they said in part on instagram they both are fine. they are not even that sick. they are not worried about it. they are not tripping but they are going through the necessary health precautions, obviously. i don t think it s anything to be too worried about. i appreciate everyone s concern and the well-wishes but i think it s all going to be all right. before tom and rita were diagnosed they were beach and opera house. as of right now australia has more than 120 confirmed cases of covid-19 and three deaths from this virus. ed? ed: all right, christina coleman thank you for that report. the impact of the outbreak can also be felt on capitol hill. georgia congressman doug collins is one of several republicans who decided to self-quarantine after coming in contact with affecteinfected person at cpac. sandra: senate candidate doug collins, appreciate your time this morning. appreciate you skyping in considering you are staying in. why did you decide to do that? we did so out of an abundance of caution. good to see you though. because we came in contact. it s been two weeks ago today. in fact today is my last day. i will be back out tomorrow. i m a symptomatic. i have never had any symptoms of the virus. make sure out of an abundance of caution stay in and emphasize to everyone that if they follow the rules, they follow the protocols that are set out, that we can manage this virus and we can do what is right. i think by doing this, we are setting example to others don t take it lightly, take it seriously, but also don t panic. make sure you are doing the right things, washing your hands, staying away if you are sick. if you are sick, go to the doctor and get tested. ed: very important advice and certainly concerned about your health and all lawmakers, staff, and everyone around the country. obviously. this is also happening in a context where in the last moment we have just gotten a new statement from senator ted cruz. he has also been self-quarantined as you know i believe in texas. he is saying that his d.c. office is going to close temporarily. senator romney has done the same. at least one case of somebody who has tested positive for coronavirus in the office of democratic senator maria cantwell. so it s happening in that context, congressman while wall street is also suffering a very volatile day right now. and a lot of people around the country are looking to you and other lawmakers to get the nation s business done. and working on an economic proposal that the president wants. how do you balance all of that, sir? well, it s been a large balance. i think i have been at work all week down here. we have other bills on the floor this week. fisa bills and also now working i was just on a conference call with my colleagues concerning our response. look, i think you will see a lot of other offices, especially next week. we are not supposed to be in next week. you will see probably a lot of working from home, probably and we are discussing that right now in my own office and making sure our d.c. office. you will see it. we are already starting to see a couple cases now on staff on the senate side and others. so it is a very real concern. we want to stop it in its tracks. this is why the protocols are in place so we can identify that are sick. isolate them, get them better so that others aren t infected. in dealing also with this economic side. the president made it very clear last night that he is willing to help. but he wants to help in the proper way. simply throwing money at a situation right now without having proper oversight even democrats last night in the rules committee were very concerned about the fact no hearings or anything involved in this. we want to work by par sanly together to make sure the people have what they need from economic standpoint but make sure it s targeted to make sure the economic stimulus or progress here is not just simply throwing money at a problem without any real solutions to making the economy or helping those who need help. sandra: you can assume the market is looking for a solution. as you have been speaking the dow is off more than 2,000 reports. we can now report that the dow has fallen to lowest level since july 2017. so, looking at multi year lows here. and i will let you know that our reporting from capitol hill as of this moment is that g.o.p. leaders mccarthy and mcconnell oppose house democrats coronavirus bill. the status of the bill is now in limbo. com, how do yocongressman, how ? i respond in unison with leader mccarthy in this as well and mitch mcconnell. again, we need a stimulus package. we also need something that actually will work. there is nothing that we have seen so far that actually stems this tide. simply putting money into unemployment insurance whether you have unemployment claims at their lowest. these are things that you work on as the situation develops. we need a stimulus now that if it helps small businesses. make sure you get extended leave. those are the kind of things work into this bill. right now not been able to partner like we did with the coronavirus package from last week in which we provided funds for the actual attacking of the virus and the response to that virus. that was bipartisan, over 400 votes. there is no reason why we can t do this today and work on that as we go forward and i know our leader mccarthy and others has talked to us and kevin brady and others talked to us on the conference call about why this is not a package that at this point we can support but i know the president is committed to finding something that is possibly going to work and our leadership is committed to working with the democrat leadership to find that. markets will be aware of that. i think we just need to make sure that we have a focused response and i believe that s what the administration is getting. ed: congressman, in fact, you just mentioned the house republican leader kevin mccarthy, we expect him to hold a news conference live in the next few moments. we will go there live to see what he is saying about the economic plans and response as well. nancy pelosi expected to have a news conference. we will go threurt there later in the hour and hear from both sides. you are laying out the important economic response and what you want to see happen. what about the health response? about a week ago you were with the president in your home state there in georgia at the cdc headquarters and we have been hearing from the administration that they are prepared on testing and that if you want to be tested you can be tested for the coronavirus but, a few moments ago sandra interviewed republican senator john barrasso, who, as you know, is not just a senator, he s a doctor. he says he still has concerns that the cdc can really follow through on that. what assurances can you give the american people this morning? the a surance i have straight from the cdc and working and listening to not the president but the vice president of the task force and cdc of course in my home state, we never forget this is the group that also just a few years ago was able to get under control the ebola virus and others. these are not people who are accustomed to dealing with hard issues. and they are dealing with it. the issue that we have now is that we need to make sure testing is there for those that are sick. what we don t need to have is rushing our healthcare system and rushing our public health system with folks that are just wondering if they have the virus. if you are sick, you have conditions, flu like conditions, symptoms, then go get tested. but i think right now the testing as it is ramping up, the more test kits that r. a available we will make sure anyone that has those symptoms are able to be tested. i trust the cdc. it s always as we look forward though we make sure that it is happening in realtime. they are putting forward the results. think we will see over time as that works out. right now i have every confidence that the public health officials all across this country and every state are doing everything they possibly can to make sure that they identify the proper cases. make sure that they re properly quarantined. make sure they are properly being treated. therapeutics being developed long term vaccine developed as well. be sure not to panic and doing what is responsible. one of the things i have told people for the whole week that i have been here. so simplest things are sometimes that you forget when you believe big crisis. this goes back to simple basic personal high skwraoefpblt go back to the sink, use soap, wash your hands. d.o. don t go out coughing people. if you are sick stay away. if you are sick, make sure you are treated. those are the ways make sure to isolate, this stop it. it will continue to grow, but we can do so at a much lower pace than we have seen in the rest of the world. sandra: learning a lot more about the spread of it and how long it can live in the air. things we didn t even know yesterday or a week ago. so, congressman, there is still a lot to take in, as you can see markets taking all of this in this morning. we wish you well as you finish off your self-quarantine there and ted cruz, i think, finishes his this afternoon while he is also shutting down his office now. we appreciate it, congressman. thank you for coming on. ed: thank you, sir. in the meantime this fox news alert. the dow plunging again as you heard deeper into bear market territory. will economic stimulus measures help ease the fallout from coronavirus? we will go live to the hill to find out. sandra: bernie sanders refusing to back out even after joe biden widens his lead in delegates. the a team will weigh in next. poll after poll, including exit polls, show that a strong majority of the american people support our progressive agenda. fox news alert. testing, treatment and tele health which will help us not only to enrural areas and throughout the country as we try to prevent the spread of this disease. along with this public health challenge, we are also working on mitigating the economic downturns from this virus as well. the president last night said we are committed to helping those committed to economic hardship disruptions in work and illness. the country is looking for the government to come together and meet these challenges. the bill that we saw that just came forth last night at 11:00 p.m. comes up short. there is a couple major problems with it. here s one glaring problem. under pelosi s bill the social security administration will be set up to administer the paid sick leave program. now, this will take more than six months, so to t. won t work in time. it also will hamper the administration from putting out social security for those who need it right now that are in harm s way. this will hurt the very population that we are supposed to be helping. it forces permanent paid sick leave for all businesses without exemptions and no sun set. instead, we are committing to get this right so we are working with the white house, with the secretary mnuchin and with the speaker. we should not just take a rush just because there s a bill. we want to make sure it works in the process where we are going. there are a few ideas that i think we have brought to the table that can help. employee retention credit, making public health emergencies eligible for major disaster programs. and finally, solving the problems when it comes to math. there is a certain piece of legislation that we can move that would be a piece of it that would give us millions of more masks out there for the health providers that need it. one thing i would say to all of america, we have overcome bigger challenges in this country. every time we have a disaster and others, it shows the very best of this country working together and coming together and to actually making us stronger in the end. i will make this commitment to everyone. republicans will not play politics. we re not going to criticize and sit back. we are going to work to make this right. i think our best thing we could do is take a deep breath. let s work together to make sure whatever bill we can pass right here works to the needs best for everyone. we have put our ideas forward. we want to work with the speaker. we want to show the leadership that not only this country wants but this country deserves. this is our moment in time that i believe in history that we come together. i know we will get through this. i know at the end of the day we will find to do what is right and i want to make that day starting right now. i think the actions the president took was correct and i think when you talk to the governors out across this nation, they are showing working well with this administration. we need to do the very same right here in the house. yes? concerns you are discussing about the bill aren t deal breakers. can they be addressed before congress goes away for a week and change for recess? how important is this to get this bill passed before you go away for recess knowing if this virus spreads you might not come back? i think it s more important that we get it right. i m not concerned about that we go on recess. i think we stay here. we get it right. this is a time and place that you do not want to rush something. i mean, it s not just my words. if you talk to democrats on the rules committee themselves, earl and others has jurisdictions on many committees. no one got to see it. there at 11:00 last night. just as your question raises. i think it s more important we take a moment to step back, let s work together. there are bright minds. we should be listening to those in the industry. we have got some bright minds in the administration, here on our committees as well. let them look at it. let us get together and put the very best ideas together and i will promise you that you will find a very bipartisan vote for that and not one that slows it up by any means and i think we can get this done in the next 48 hours. think the house will stay here until i get it done. i think we can get this done in 24 or 48 hours, yes. i think it s critical that we do. what was the concern here besides obviously there was concern on side of the aisle about the contact talking about some of the elements in it. but seeing what s going on on wall street, remembering the tarp experience in 2008, putting a bill on the floor that they probably could have passed with democratic votes but didn t have support of the administration and many republicans, the idea of sending kind of a message of confidence. is that part of the calculus here besides the policy elements or was it looking at what is going on on wall street right now and being concerned that there is a bill that doesn t see the light of day i or seen by te president? tarp was an economic meltdown. we have one of the strongest economies we have ever had in the last 50 years. that s at a positive place. we have the lowest unemployment. so what you really should be looking at how do we make sure these people stay employed before you are just trying to get money into people s hands to get a consumption going. this is a stronger position to be in. one, you want to treat this virus. but, more importantly, you want to keep the economics going strong in the same spaces. that s why we are in a stronger position to get this right and to sit together and not play any political games. to clarify things are the ask by republicans beyond what you just mentioned there, are we talking about are you going to ask for the payroll tax holiday that the president pushed for are there things beyond the two things that you mentioned? i believe there are big things that will take more time. let s do what we can to do together right now. we can work on those bigger things and come back in the next couple weeks. but i do believe it is critical that we get a small portion of this done right now. i think it helps give confidence. but, remember, we are elected policymakers and leaders. this is our moment in time to show that we will rise to the occasion just as every other american believes we should do. you are hearing from your members frustration that there are no testing kits. i mean congress doesn t have any testing kits. what s going on? there are testing kits out there. there are people who have been tested. congress doesn t get any forward in front of the line as we talked to the doctor today. i was just talking to one american company out there that is just on the verge of being able to have the test ready in the next short time. they are making sure that it s done correctly. but you could have a test back in 8 minutes. i mean, this is the ingenuity of this country. it s not just government is going to be able to solve it, we have such bright minds in the private sector as well. we want to harness that we want to create the synergy. that s what s going to get us to the point where we will have a vaccine for this. just as ebola which was much more deadly able to con stain that back into africa. we now have a vaccine for it. unfortunately when you look to italy and these other countries they did not have the leadership that took the action that this president took by stopping the plane from china coming here. what does that mean [inaudible] to your members and how has this changed campaign strategies for the large gatherings? has it hampered your [inaudible] as far as campaigning? the first thing i would say is this is not a time to be sitting, thinking about campaign events. this is a time, this crisis is about america and this is what we should focus on. put campaigns all aside. there is time and place for that later. let s solve this problem. you are elected to be a policymaker and let s work through that i just got off the phone with our members on a conference call we had dr. monahan on it. we had rodney davis from the house administration. we had larry kudlow. we are answering numerous questions. the one thing i wanted to take away from all of our members that we will work with the speaker, we will work with the administration. and we will make sure that we get this bill right. you said there was a conference call? yeah. why didn t you do a conference meeting? the reason why i did a conference call because we had a number of things. this is not our normal time for a conference. we had on another day. i thought the participation would be bigger. i also would have other people that i wanted to participate on because they were some place else instead of traveling into the capital. the combination. i thought the participation would be better. it s also from the standpoint it does also help with health. you don t have as big a group together but for participation it allowed everybody to be. there can you explain more tax credits and other things proposed added to the bill. you added briefly and i wanted to get a little more detail on that. there is a big expansion of medicaid in this bill. do republicans have any problem with that. one thing sit back and f map and the expansions there. there is no scoring. there is no committee looking at that and these are such big items. i just do not believe it would be smart on our part to russia through that you got it at 11:00 p.m. last night. you are voting on it at 11:00 a.m. this morning. without any score, without any work through, where sun set and others. i would rather have the minds and the expertise that we have on both sides of the aisle here, especially with the number of committees that have worked on this to be able to see that and at least have input. yes. one of the teams that we are hearing from our viewers they go to the market, there is nothing there. they are going to their prescription pharmacies and they are starting to run low on certain drugs. what can congress do about that? well, there is a number of things coming has already done. and this is the one thing i want to make sure the american public knows. just in the last five years, we have increased funding almost to 40% when it comes to the national institute of health and the centers for disease and control. cdc and nih. those are the individuals who are actually help lead in this process. had you 40% increase. just in 2019 under this administration and our majority, we created the infectious disease rapid response fund. so they could actually go after dealing with this at the very beginning. and then we have the national stockpile. so we have been preparing for a situation such as itself. unfortunately, when this first came to the fruition, that president xi did not allow us in there. if our scientists, our doctor -frs were able to be in china from the very beginning, we would have more knowledge and we probably have been able to help save the world containment could have been just within their country. right now it s a different situation. so we ll do everything in our part working with the private sector, making sure that we have the facilities that we need. the other thing, too is from a responsibility from all americans, not to panic, but don t hoard it as well. let s make sure those who need it just like when it comes to a mask situation. you watched a run on mask. here we have 3 m build. industrial one can work for medical providers. but because of our own regulations they would be sued if they sold it to them. those are millions of masks. we can simply change that provision and that s one of the provisions we are looking at. those would be millions of more masks today that would be able to go forward to be sold. yes? to follow up on those masks though, we are told they are for people who are sick. if they stop stop spreading why do they go to healthcare providers. it s a combination of both. if you are a medical provider on the front line that is dealing with somebody that is sick right there in testing, you need a mask on along with the person who is sick. that s why you want to make sure, too that you have both. my last question, you expect a disaster declaration today. larry kudlow told you guys in the call is that something [inaudible] i think the action this administration has taken, i know some people criticized this president early for taking the action of not having china to come forward. he does talk about other items he will take. those are appropriate, smart, and helping to keep this country safe. you expect that to be today though. i would leave that up to the administration where they go. capitol tours are already cancelled. what is the likelihood that congress will spend this wee wen session. we monitor day by day. that s exactly how we should approach it. we want to make surety policymakers are here to take what action are needed. we need to lead in this situation. we need to work together. and, remember, we have overcome much in this country, but more importantly, this country has led in overcoming any of the problems around the world. and we will do the same with this. this is not a time to panic by any means. i m looking what s happening in the private sector and with government. at the end of the day, we will get a vaccine. we are testing right now for the best treatments and therapy. we are taking the actions and the precautions ahead of time to make sure this does not spread as rapidly as we have watched in italy and others. and whatever we see in front of us, we will overcome and we will solve it. can i clarify one point? did you have members of the administration from the economic not the health side but so much talk to the members this morning but saying okay, this is what we need to pass this bill in the administration? because obviously they had concerns. they said they didn t like it in its current form or what did the administration or have you spoken to the administration. we have been talking to the administration throughout with secretary mnuchin, with larry kudlow. we had larry kudlow scheduled to come on a whole different topic earlier today and we modified what the conference was about today. but, larry kudlow talked about the current measurements within the economy, how strong we are. prior to this virus, our economy is even growing bigger. and we want to make sure we have that. remember, this is so different than the economic meltdown. we re walking into a virus when we are economically strong. so how do we make sure we take the treatment, we prevent it, and keep the economy growing and that is our goal. that is our mission. and that is what we will achieve. thank you very much. thank you. sandra: you ve been watching the republican news conference there talking about the lack of support for the house democrats coronavirus bill. that bill is in limbo as of now. he is calling on his colleagues to rise to the occasion. we can get something done, he said, within 24 to 48 hours. but it is urgent. ed: he had a message no reason to panic. he believes congress will come together on an economic package and also he believes that the best and the brightest among our scientists and private business are going to come together, get a vaccine, get the testing to people and that everyone is going to come together. but there is obviously a lot of skepticism right now. can you see it in the market. sandra: also calling on congress to stay in session until that bill gets done. let s bring in the a team now jessica tarlov, fox news contributor. brian brenberg chair of the program kings college here in manhattan and cheryl casone co-host of fbn am on the fox business network. what did you take away from what you just heard? i think vetoing the democrats bill is going to be the big take away from that press conference. there is going to be a lot of pressure on republicans to get something done in the next 24 to 48 hours as leader mccarthy said he thought was feasible. the democrat bill covered a lot of things that are people are talking about, making sure that there is paid medical leave, that there is free testing. that healthcare workers are taken care of this. we know how serious are about to get for american hospitals. we would rather avoid going the way of itsly which has been purely an issue of overcrowding and contamination will once people actually show up to get treated for covid-19. i think republicans should backtrack on this and consider the democratic proposals, especially thinking ahead to how many millions of people by congress own doctors estimate 70 to 150 million people are going to have this by the end. people need to be taken care of. ed: certainly the attending physician on capitol hill was saying that could be a worse case scenario if we don t take big measures. we don t want to scare people big picture worse case scenario. dr. fauci said stop talking about this like it s the flu. dramatically waors than the flu. this administration wants to tamp down concerns about it. the united states of america nearly 48 hours ago said no big deal this will go away. it s not going away. his address fell far short three major inaccuracies that the white house had to walk back within minutes. ed: get it on the table so everybody has a voice. cheryl, your thoughts on what is happening in the markets, the president trying to sooth the markets, trying to sherman r. se american people but this travel ban is having a big impact. there are industries that are in jeopardy. talk about the tourism industry, the hospitality industry see more shut downs in the u.s. that does effect the economy. part of the reason had the sell-off, the limit down on dow futures, the s&p 500 the halt you had in the last hour is because there is concerns about the u.s. economy going to into recession and may be zero percent growth. goldman sachs came out with a note what county government do? we are talking about washington. probably about $80 billion in stimulus. but it has to be targeted. it has to be specific. and it s got to be temporary. that is the big thing. the concern from wall street when it comes to the democrats proposal is they will try to put things in that they will extend and extend and it may not be good fiscal policy not just for the u.s. government but also not good for the markets. the markets are very sensitive right now that everything they are hearing from washington. one thing that there is, i think, does need to be addressed right now is those low income workers that are across this country. look, 23.6 million americans are low wage workers and they re the ones that don t have paid sick leave given to them by their businesses. what d.c. could do right now is to target those businesses, small businesses and president trump talked about this last night make sure those workers that don t have paid sick leave are at least given week by week for now the financial assistance that they need. sandra: we only have a minute left or so. brian, you are always good at looking at the consumer standpoint. we certainly have seen americans change their behavior based on the fears over this spread of this virus. yeah, look, the behavioral change has been big and consumers want to know how am i going to bridge through this? how is the government going to help me pay my bills and get through this day to day? which is why it is so important that congress act. the idea that they are going to leave to recess to me is incomprehensible. how can you convey optimism to the american consumer when congress is going to leave washington, d.c. at the moment, when we need some kind of relief for the american worker for businesses who are being held up for businesses who are struggling to pay bills. that s got to happen here. congress has to come together. i think they can this can t be a moment where the house democrats want to cram through big ideas, you know, policy agenda. this is a time for temporary targeted relief. that s where they have got to get. and they have got to get there very quickly. sandra: brian, cheryl and jessica, appreciate all three of you being here today. thank you. thank you. ed: all right. let s keep it moving with the world health organizations their officials urging countries to take action after declaring the coronavirus is i is indeed a pandemic. alarming levels of spread and severity but also noting the alarming levels of inaction in some places around the world. let s bring in the world health organization spokesman tareq i want to make sure i get that right. tareq, thank you for come in. what led to the decision. there had been a lot of talk for weeks now whether in fact this was a global pandemic it. seems obvious that it now is what are the next steps to contain it? well, we have qualified yesterday this situation as being pandemic because there was very concerning increase in number of cases and specifically geographic spread of the disease we have seen number of countries reporting covid-19 has tripled. this led to the qualification. advice has not changed. in fact, we are just trying to say even harder you have to take action. countries have to be ready, health systems have to be empowered, health workers have to be equipped and trained. populations should be informed and should follow the advice of national health authorities. and governments cannot leave this only to health professionals. this has to be all of the government s approach because we are seeing the consequences of this virus in terms of the destruction of social life. there are concrete actions that can be taken. we have seen countries like china, south korea, and singapore with a strong public health measures of con deignment managing to reduce the numbers of newly infected people and countries have to understand that in is now affecting everyone in their countries and therefore urgent action is needed. sandra: it is. what can we learn from what we have seen so far. we have seen the warnings coming from angela merkel and germany. obviously italy and china, of course, what can we learn as we are now entering in the next phase of all of this? well, i think what is really important is to see where each country is. it s not the same thing if you have tens of thousands of infected people. thousands of people in hospitals. and when you just have a few confirmed people with covid-19. we still believe that containment is possible. that it can help the situation as we have seen in some countries. so countries should test people. should look for we should see where the virus is and transmission chains are. that means finding people who are sick. looking into people close contact and making sure they are not infecting other people so really going in to the heart of infected area and trying to slow down and maybe even disrupt the transmission chain. this obviously is not always easy. but it is unprecedented situation and countries need to do that and in addition, there has to be other containment measures that we ll see some sort of social distancing, making sure that people adopt behavior that reduce the risk of transmission. ed: that rick, on that question from sandra about lessons leaed. what is your advice to americans this morning the two or three things they should be doing how concerned they should be moving forward here? i think our advice is the same for every person on this planet. it is there are basic things can you do to protect yourself and your community. first, hand hygiene, we know how this virus is being transmitted. we know you will get infected by introducing the virus through your nose, mouth, ear. and that will happen most likely touching your face where you i don t hands, after you have picked up the virus on some surface. so, regular hand hygiene. if you see the person that is obviously sick, coughing, and if you are in the area where the virus is circulating. stay away, keep the difference. and if yourself have the stoplgs. if you are coughing, if you have a fever, if you feel tired, and you think that you have been exposed to covid-19, stay at home. we know that 80% of people who are infected will have a mild disease that may go through the person can go through this disease just by staying home and protecting others. those who develop severe illness obviously will need medical attention and will need to be hospitalized and this is why healthcare workers need really to be equipped. ed: some really good advice. and need to be transported. ed: thank you for your advice. sandra: we appreciate it. coronavirus hitting the sports world hard now. ed: that s right. the nba suspending, putting a pause on its season as a player tested positive for the virus. jim gray is here for a look at the impact. sandra: next hour, exclusive interview with the attorney general bill barr. 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t have players testing positive. they are in contact with each other. they have been in contact with the fans, obviously. they are flying together. and so this was the absolute 100 percent right decision by adam silver and the nba to do this at this time. ed: jim, you are mentioning rudy gobert from the utah jazz the first player to test positive. we don t know how many other players being tested now. obviously played games against other teams. he has been around teammates. there is video we want to show before he was diagnosed with the coronavirus. he was almost joking around with reporters he touched the microphones, you can see there a couple days back joking about the idea of spreading germs. and it s obviously unfortunate in the context now he did not know then that he had the coronavirus. but it just raises more questions about who has been in the locker room, which reporters he has interacted with. correct. those teams the cavaliers, the knicks, the celtics, pistons and raptors have all been in contact in the past 10 or 12 days now all of them are obviously in self-quarantine. you just can t have this going on. and you know, that s unfortunate that that s what he did at the end of his press conference there at the press briefing. obviously he didn t know his illness. this is a good guy. he is an all-star. he is a guy who, you know, obviously has the respect of the players around him. so that s a very unfortunate thing that he did right there. but it just speaks to the seriousness. this is not a joking, laughing matter and this virus, obviously, according to the cdc iis multiplying and moving fast. other sports leagues are going to have to take a look at this. march madness is getting ready to have its selection show. they said they are not going to play in front of fans. it seems to me that s not a step far enough because all it s going to take is one of these players unfortunately to test positive or come down with these symptoms and then is he going to expose not only his teammates but the other team that he is playing. it seems to me that they are going to have to figure out they want the revenue the ncaa needs this tournament to happen but this is a public health crisis what you would call it right now and it s just not prudent to continue. sandra: the president of the ncaa put out a statement addressing a lot of that saying well, i understand how disappointing this is for all of our fans of the sport. my decision is based on the current understanding of you who covid-19 is progressing in the united states. this decision is in the best interest of the public, including that of coaches, administrators, fans and most importantly our student-athletes. you know that will are so many organizations that are facing this difficult decision and, of course, the big question mark over the olympics still and what happens with that jim gray, we are going to thank you there. we have more breaking news on capitol hill this morning. thank you. ed: speaker of the house nancy pelosi, here she is. today we are having to continue our conversation with the administration on legislation that puts families first. we are very proud of the work that the congress did last week with an 8.3 billion-dollar legislation to meet the needs of social and health services organizations, state and local government, testing all the rest of that. testing, testing, testing. so very, very important. so that we can have an idea of the size of the challenge but also that we, first and foremost, that we can meet the needs of those who test positive. today we ll bring to the floor our family first legislation, which is what we talked about as soon as we finished the appropriations bill. listening to our constituents, listening to healthcare professionals, listening to governors, mayors, et cetera. put the families first legislation together. it has a free coronavirus testing by and large almost everyone in the country. we re having some discussion about that with the administration that maybe some people want to pay. by and large free kron testing scoronatesting. no one can say i can t afford so i can t. that s not a good idea when it comes to public health. paid emergency leave with 14 paid sick days. very essential as we deal with this challenge, public health challenge that we have. and hands on employment insurance, the first step that will extend protection to furloughed workers strengthen food security initiatives very important and kids just get their food security from being in school. schools are closed. we have to make sure that the food gets to the children. food is already paid for and allocated, appropriated for. it s just a question of getting the food to the children, and that has some cost to it. we also have to get that s the school lunch program, et cetera. but, in terms of snap and food assistance for seniors, people with disabilities, helping the nonprofits who are on the forefront of helping people have access to food at this difficult time. and then clear protection for front line workers who are working in infectious environments and possible infectious environment so that the osha regulations are a protection for them and then increased funding for medicate. the f map, that s the initiative that gets money to the states for medicaid that is used hopefully to the counties and the rest which deal with many of these health issues to as we go forward. so it s about putting families first. we did the big major investment last week. we are very proud of that strongly bipartisan, already signed into law, families first there will be another initiatives that we want to work with the administration on that may be necessary as we go forward. some that need more discussion, more impact in terms of what is the collateral benefit or collateral damage to stopping the spread of the coronavirus. now, let me just get back to testing, testing, testing. so very important. to take inventory, to understa understand the spread of the virus. [laughter] and also to meet the needs of the people affected. i m very pleased also this week that we were able to pass bipartisan fisa bill in the house. that s a hard thing to do. i know that from my intelligence experience that we were able to pass [inaudible] resolution repeal the amui as the predicate for how we go forward and rep conner s regulatio funding for y action. as we go forward, i want to thank the members for the bipartisan legislation that was successful this week on the floor. in case you were going to ask, no, i don t think bernie sanders should get out of the race. i m a grassroots person. a party, a grassroots chair of the california democratic party. i know the enthusiasm of supporters for candidates and they want to see it play out for the ideas, the causes that the candidate advances for the opportunity for people to show their support. i congratulate both of the candidates as they go into the debate on sunday. i wish them both well. and i m very pleased that we re getting a chance now and a narrower field to be able to close to having a standard-bearer for the party. but, either one of them, whoever is the one who emerges the other one is the standard-bearer for a point of view in our party that is very important. with that i m pleased to take any questions. let me see who, who? i say you. it sounded like your open to still changing this bill or at least tweaking it. yes. the white house concerns. when you guys vote this afternoon, are you planning to release your members to go home or will you keep congress in session until there is a bill on the president s desk? well, we have whether we go home or not is more related to the what the house physician, the capital physician says and what the sergeant at arms and the police chief and the rest say about what could come next that we have to deal with. they make statements every day based on the current state of affairs in the community in which we exist here in washington, d.c. i do think that some of the suggestions what happened modify quickly who knew, right? who knew we would be in this situation. we passed a bill last week immediately. we knew we had to do more. we had to get paper. and when we had this, then we shared it with the republicans. they made some changes to it. we are negotiating with secretary mnuchin. he had some suggestions, all very reasonable. i think that none of them is would prevent us from moving forward with a bill. we just have to though in the world that we live in, have language so that we can go to rules, so that we can go to the floor. i don t think we would wait until there is a signed bill. we will do our work, as i said, sensitive to changes that have been suggested. i don t think they are unreasonable. there are options that we considered in our own caucus, some of them. and we wouldn t one route, they got other route, that s fine. we will have done our work and we would hope that that would be an incentive for the senate to move quickly because senator mcconnell leader mcconnell asked me to work with secretary mnuchin. we are, we had his concern. we are addressing them. i hope they don t move the goal post. good morning. so, to be clear, so you think you can work this bill out today and pass that with changes and that the idea is that true house might go away with the caveat. one thing at a time. i m not saying we are here to pass a bill. when we pass a bill. we will make a judgment about what comes next and we will see the manner in which the bill is passed. i m not giving any travel arrangements. i know busy about weekend and that that s not what we are about. what are the other things that you see, obviously these are things we can do immediately. what are the broader things that you might see doing in a couple of weeks? let us get this bill tpasd first and see what goes. the fact is like the house is on fire. people are concerned about their of course their health and the health of their children. if they are losing their jobs because nobody is coming to the restaurant or whatever it is, then we have to be there with some help for them. and if the children can t go to school because the school closed, how do they afford child care? well, this legislation affords them the opportunity to stay home on somewhat of a paid leave for a while. so, again, this is we are addressing the realities of life, of family life in america. putting family first. not planning a schedule or anything else until we get that until we get that done. and, again, we had in our bill last week the provisions for the small business administration to provide loans to businesses that were under duress, whether they wanlosttheir market overseas, sy chain overseas whatever it happens to be. we thought that was an important initiative to have in the bill. they may want to do more, that is something we can talk about. even if you have your small business loans so that can you pay the rent on your store or your restaurant or your facility, if you don t have customers, you still have a problem. that s why when we do the 10 tannif. the snap, food. paid sick lee, family, parental leave, that money will be spent immediately and creates jobs is a stimulus. so this is not without an opportunity to stimulate the economy. in fact, when we did this american reinvestment and recovery act, we asked the [inaudible] in particular asked the economist name some of the things that we could do immediately that would be stimulus to the economy? raise the minimum wage, we are not doing that here. unemployment insurance. paid leave, food stamps, et cetera. because, again, go to people who have the need. also have earned income tax credit, refundable and that. maybe some things that we will talk about in the future. yes, sir? one of the issues that the minority leader is talking about has to do with he believes that compromise could take place within the next 24 to 48 hours. but, if it doesn t, the republicans are willing to stay and work this out. what is the question? families have needs that i just described. we have made the proposal which we started on sunday and put out there. listening to governors, mayors, nonprofit organizations. educators and the rest. this is what families need. they made suggestions to the language, we are making agreeing to most of it because they are not that different. so we don t need 48 hours. we need to just make the decision to help families right now because we have to operate not as business as usual but innage emergency status where we have to get the job done. but if a decision isn t made, will you stick around? i m not sticking around because they don t want to agree to language. we have we are agreeing to much of what they have to look, first of all, mitch mcconnell called me and said you work with the secretary, that s it. now the house republicans are saying they are not in the loop. we sent them the language. it s not about that. it s about putting people and families first. so, i mean, if everybody could have a complaint about this or that, i said save it for another day. we can have an after action review about how we got into this situation. save it for another day. right now we have to find our common ground, work together to get this done as soon as possible because we have other needs. we will have to address this issue further. and it s some things that they might want in this bill that aren t there. there could be another bill shortly down the road. we didn t do everything last week with $8.3 billion. but we did a great deal and now we are doing more and then we are fully prepared to do more. so we are we we are responding to their concerns. we don t want them moving the goal post and that s it. yes, nancy? was it a wise move to block most travelers in europe to coming to the u.s. for the next month and if so was it wise to leave the u.k. off of that list? i had a conversation with the vice president and dr. fauci last night when they called to inform me of this. dr. fauci said it was a scientific medical decision. i have great confidence in dr. fauci. it s just strange because they are saying it s because it s easy to travel among these countries. but they are separate from the u.k. well, you can just get in the and you will be in the u.k. again, it s a decision they made. it has its ramifications we will see whether it s worth the trouble, but, again, i m here about what we can do to go forward for america s working families, for putting families first without having a criticism of one or the other things that the president is doing. i do think as chuck and i leader schumer and i said in our comments last night test, testing, testing, that s the only way you are going to learn about the how this is spread. i don t want to use that word because not everybody knows what it means. we have the [inaudible] i have to get going. you said last week congress is the last line of defense. beyond the recess, wondering if it came to i said it was a last line of defense? i heard you say that at some point. i m wondering. a line of defense. i don t know if it s the last. how prepared is congress to work from home potentially if it were to come to that? we have been briefed by chief administrative officer, by the chief of police, by the sergeant of arms, by the capital attending physician by the by our leader house administration committee zoe lofgren about what preparations have been made for remote work. that is something that we are actually encouraging people to be prepared for they may choose to come in but be prepared to do that. it isn t a requirement yet but it is that we want people to be prepared. so, we are finding the technology, the training and all the rest to make sure that everybody is up to par on that. our writing of legislation, our exchange of ideas and all, that won t stop the work of congress because by the time we come to the floor it s the tip of the iceberg, there is so much else work that is going on and that with all respect in the world for all our staff who do much of that and our members who participate in that. everybody is not universally excellent at the same place in terms of technology. i want to makes sure they are all their personal best when that sets in. so, it s about i hope that much of what we are doing is redundant and that we don t have to engage in some of this. but if we do, we want to be prepared, we want to present the spread prevent the spread so if people have to stay home they stay home. we also don t want people to panic. that s why we based any decisions about the capital, this or that, on what is recommended by the capital physician and the sergeant at arms and the chief of police. but it is i think we have to be very prayerful about this. people are sick and some people are dying in our country. and elderly. and it is kind of shocking to see the challenges that we have and the decisions that have to be made about people coming together whether it s sports or the arts or just political gatherings, whatever it is, we have to think in a different way about that. whether it s about personal hygiene or personal contact with other people. we have to be smart about how we do that. washing our hands for 20 seconds with soap and water, i say that all the time anyway as a mom. but, now it s imperative but it s always been important. so, again, as i say, what we think about one policy or another as nancy asked, what we really have to do is come together and get the job done. now, we were very clear in our communications about what we heard and when members go home, they will hear more from their constituents, from their nonprofits, from their local government, from their healthcare providers amend the rest, that what other ideas have emerged as important in all of this. and that will be a source of knowledge for when we come back and we can come back any time. everybody has to stand ready to be here at all times if we have a legislative solution to put forth. but, again, it can t just spring from what we did before, anything like that. it s about what is current and the challenge that we face with this coronavirus and it s not about spending a lot of time saying how we got here. we have to talk about where we go from here and then we can make changes for the future and how we could present or withstand whatever might be happening in other countries that might spread to our own. but i do want to salute our healthcare providers, our first responders, all of the nonprofits that are working to inform people about how they should be tested. we are in our legislation, we enable millions of masks to go out. that was something very important to the administration that we would suspenduspend immy for liabity was a very big deal. a big concession to the administration on that because weighing the equities it would be important to get those masks out. even though it provided that immunity. so we have tried to say okay, we have our and specifically for the coronavirus crisis. so anyway, i thank you for your interest in all of this. i want you to wash your hands for 20 seconds, not just all the time just for no reason at all. for no reason at all one bit of advice they told me i was talking to somebody from california and i said my usual thing, you know, that a month ago i might have said whoever the nominee of the party we will enthusiastically embrace, and then i changed it to whoever the nominee of the party we will enthusiastically elbow bump. but somebody said to me know, when you elbow bump you get close to the person. forget any physical contact, greetings. boughbow, eastern style. thank you very much. again, we are all very excited that the shock is coming, honored that leader mcconnell will be part of our hospitality to him at our lunch later today. thank you. does he get a handshake? i saw him last night. [laughter] we had this big irish dinner which i was honored last night and very excited about that and it was wonderful to see him. but, i did not impose upon him with a hand shake nor did he on me. thank you. thank you. ed: okay, speaker of the house nancy pelosi referring to the irish prime minister who is currently at the white house. he is with president trump. they are talking to reporters. we will have that tape, sandra in a couple of moments where we will be able to turn that around where the president was just saying that there are now some problems in france and germany with the coronavirus. italy obviously having record-setting problems. the president saying the european travel ban he mentioned 30 days last night. he hopes it can be reestablished pretty quickly. we don t know what that means in terms of a timetable. we will get more details from the president. but then the irish prime minister is going to leave the white house and head up for the traditional luncheon with the speaker. saint patrick s day. had a lot to say about the coronavirus and negotiations over economic stimulus. sandra: she did an indicate a bill will come later today. they are accepting most of the g.o.p. proposed changes to the coronavirus bill but also talking about the immediate need to get those masks out there. she said we need to get the job done as a country. we heard from kevin mccarthy earlier on the republican side and then nancy pelosi. ed: she is working on the republican plan from the house but still rejecting the president s idea of a payroll tax cut. so they are kind of stalled on the big picture. in the meantime the fight to contain coronavirus is intensifying today. sweeps new bans and restrictions at home and around the world amid warnings the global pandemic will get work. welcome back to america s newsroom i m ed henry. sandra: i m sandra smith. the dow selling off nearly 2,000 points this morning offer concerns of the spread of covid-19. it has been sending markets into a wild week on wall street. here s what we know at this hour. there are now 36 deaths so far in the united states and new cases jumped to more than 1300 here at home including some news that we are watching, a player on the utah jazz has contracted the disease. this has forced the nba to suspend its season. meantime the outbreak exploding around the world with now nearly 125,000 cases globally. ed: yes. now getting word that the president is taking questions from reporters happening behind closed doors. once we turn that tape we will bring you that to see exactly what the president is saying. last night in his oval office address, remember, he announced a 30-day travel ban to europe that is going to start on friday. we re expecting to hear from the president any minute, as soon as reporters leave the oval office. we will roll that video. as i noted, meantime the coronavirus an emergency bill now in limbo in terms of an economic plan it. would provide free testing for coronavirus, paid sick leave, this is the house democrats plan -b and strengthen unemployt insurance. the house oversight committee is holding a hearing on oversight preparedness, here is a world health organization spokesperson earlier on america s newsroom. device has not changed from who. in fact, we are just trying to say even harder you have to take action. countries have to be ready, health systems have to be empowered, health workers have to be equipped and trained. countries have to understand that this is now affecting everyone in their countries and, therefore, urgent action is needed. sandra: overseas now where cases are jumping by the thousands, by the day. italy now a ghost town with all shops closed except grocery stores and pharmacist as iran grapples with more than 9,000 cases and hundreds of deaths there and very high profile out of australia where the actor tom hanks and his wife announcing that they have both tested positive for the virus. as ann curie tweeted now we all have someone we lo diagnosed with the coronavirus. we have fox team coverage for you this morning. kristin fisher is kicking off our coverage now live at the white house. hey, christa. good morning, meeting with the prime minister of ireland has been planned for some time. the timing is pretty remarkable given the strict travel reskreubgzs that president trump just placed on europe. ireland and britain are not included in those restrictions. here is president trump making that announcement during a rare oval office address last night, watch. to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. there will be exemptions for americans who have undergone appropriate screenings and these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things as we get approval. but just one hour later the president clarified by saying trade will in no way be affected by the 30-day restriction on travel from europe. the restriction stops people, not goods. regardless european leaders say they were blindsided. they say action was taken unilaterally and without consultation. the white house says it was simply the right thing to do to protect the american people. now, right now, over on capitol hill, the house is considering this emergency relief bill due to the coronavirus. and this is a bill that includes free coronavirus testing for all americans, paid emergency leave, strengthen food security initiatives and increase federal funding for medicaid. but, already, the top republicans in the house and senate say they have problems with the bill that is being pushed by house democrats. and so does the white house. the capitol is now closed to the public after the first senate staffer has tested positive for the virus. here at the white house, and over at the pentagon, all public tours have been cancelled. the president has cancelled a trip out west and the president s campaign has just postponed an event in milwaukee that was slated for next week. ed and sandra, today we are really not just feeling but truly sees the impact of the spread of the coronavirus. sandra: it is quickly changing the environment for sure. kristin, fisher, thank you. ed: more on this katie pavlich editor at town hall.com a fox news contributor and tom thanks for both coming in on a big, big day. thank you. thanks, ed. good to be with you. ed: matt, i want to talk to you. heard from kevin mccarthy. look, let s try to find a deal here. he thinks both sides could come together in economic stimulus package in 24 to 48 hours. then you heard the speaker of the house of your party saying we are moving forward with our plan increasing unemployment insurance free coronavirus testing but we don t want the president s plan of a payroll tax cut. isn t that something that your party liked when president obama was president? well, look, the circumstances are totally different. we are facing something that this country hasn t faced since like 1918. and so what the speaker is trying to do very quickly is work with leader mccarthy to put together a plan that can get through the house and can get help into people s hands very fast. i think if you would ask leading democrats, they would tell you that a payroll tax cut probably doesn t make sense. but if the white house insists and that s the only way that we can get this package through and stimulate the economy really quickly they will do that i think it s also worth noting all of these things, if they pass, they are going to help president trump politically. but, democrats are doing them anyway because it s the right thing to do and i hope that spirit continues with both sides. ed: well, that s interesting, matt, although the house democrats have shown no spirit to actually meet him on the payroll tax cut so, katie, you just heard me press on that. i mean, i get what matt is saying this is unprecedented going back to 1918, but doesn t that argue for dramatic action like the president says he wants? well, and president trump presented the payroll tax cut as an option relief for hourly workers and right away nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, chuck schumer in particular held a press conference and criticized the president for the way he has been handling. this when it comes to some kind of emergency stimulus plan, there is certainly room for questions. a lot of waste, fraud and abuse tend to go into these emergency plans wish lists that have been on the table for a long time on both sides of the aisle tend to get put into these bills. but i was listening to speaker nancy pelosi and listening to what she was trying to say listening to vice president mike pence on the phone. gave us news she talked to dr. fauci last night and he indicated that the travel ban from europe is based on scientific data and evidence and that she respects his opinion on that. so, you know, it s easy from the outside in to criticize the people who are actually trying to do things and get things done. i would hope that democrats don t take this as an opportunity to continue to go after president trump and that they can do something that will actually calm the markets and help people who are hurting. ed: matt, you mentioned democrats want to reach across the aisle, work with president trump to deal with this emergency. and so on one hand i wonder if you thought he was good last night in terms of his tone, the calmness with which he was trying to bring to the situation. on the other hand, there is criticism this morning that the president didn t spend a lot of time on testing, which seems to be in terms of a health standpoint critical to solving all of this. yeah. look, i thought his tone was fine. i suppose. he wasn t pwhruszstering as he often does. but he made three enormous mistakes in an 11-minute oval office address that he was reading off a teleprompter which is really hard to do. that confused a lot of people and i think it s contributed at least to some of the market gyrations that we are seeing today and a lot of confusion out there. but the other thing, to your point, is he didn t address the thing that everyone wants to know which is how am i going to get tested if i have symptoms? and we have seen no leadership from them on this yet at all. ed: matt, we have limited time of course because of all the breaking news. i don t want to cut you off but i need to give katie a chance to push back on that. you heard them update the federal government updated on the testing. there needs to be more of it. there is now a drive-thru clinic open in colorado for people to drive up and move on and get tested. that is something that we have seen be effective in places like tijuana and south korea. so testing is absolutely critical. but the president can t present a testing option if it s not available yet. it seems like they are still trying to get there. ed: the administration has been promising they are going to get there that s why there will be pressure on them. katie, matt, appreciate you both coming in. sandra: eth, you mentioned breaking news. we have now more for you. word that another nba player has tested positive for the coronavirus. we will have details on that for you next. also a new report claiming one cruise line down played the dangers of the virus to attract more customers. we will look at the legal implications of that move. ed: plus, 2020 democrats turning their attention to next week s primaries. why the key state of florida could mean more trouble for bernie sanders. the former house speaker newt gingrich gives us his thoughts on that plus the coronavirus coming up. poll after poll, including exits polls, show that a strong majority of the american people support our progressive agenda. you wouldn t accept an incomplete job from anyone else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills don t. get 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catch biden in the delegate race. so now he is appealing to party leaders to look at which candidate is capturing the support of people who could be voting democratic for decades. but it is not just the ideological debate that our progressive movement is winning. we are winning the generational debate. while joe biden continues to do very well with older americans, especially those people over 65. our campaign continues to win the vast majority of the votes of younger people. bernie sanders is up in burlington, close to home for him and joe biden is here in wilmington, delaware, close to home for him. is where a hotel in downtown wilmington is going to be the back drop for remarks from biden later on early this afternoon about exactly how he would handle the spread of coronavirus if he was president right now. ed? ed: peter doocy live on the trail for us. peter, thank you. sandra: all right. 2020 candidates will be meeting again for more primaries on tuesday florida is the biggest prize, 219 delegates up for grabs as new polling now shows the state may not be helpful to bernie sanders. newt gingrich is a former speaker of the house and a fox news contributor. mr. speaker, good morning and thank you for being here. good morning. glad to be with you. sandra: yeah. glad to be with you as well. let s throw up this brand new polling out of florida, university of north florida, took the poll march 5th to the 10th. it shows joe biden with a commanding lead in that state. 66% to bernie sanders polling 22% in the state. we can go back to the poll we just threw up there first and that s the real clear politics average of polls. that has biden at 53%. does florida spell more trouble for bernie sanders, mr. speaker? oh, sure, look. i think you are going to see from here on out vice president biden winning the majority of the delegates. i think the race basically is over. bernie sanders can stay in to make his ideological argument, doesn t cost him much. and allows him to go to the democratic national convention in milwaukee in july and try to negotiate for the platform and maybe negotiate for hot speakers are. but i think that his campaign was broken last week when they they couldn t carry michigan or mississippi or missouri or idaho. at that point i think it was basically now over. but, the dance will continue a little longer, but i think, also, it will be really overshadowed by the enormous challenge that we are faced with coronavirus and we are feyed with the economic challenge. so, i think the country will pay a lot more attention to the reality of governing and less attention to the campaign over the next, say, two months. sandra: there are growing hints from democrats that bernie sanders should drop out at this point. dianne feinstein is quoted in hill piece. bernie sanders should drop out in it i m sure bernie will do the right thing and i know how hard this is. but i think it s pretty much decided now. i do think it is time to move on said dianne feinstein. so, you look at that, and you go back to something you just said and you said the economic impact of the coronavirus the impact that we are seeing on the markets the economy here at home. the global economy. mr. speaker, you are sitting in italy this morning. you are seeing firsthand the damage that this has done there. what are your broader thoughts on what the globe faces now with this virus? well, i have had the opportunity to watch my wife, calista, who is the ambassador to the vatican, lead her embassy team in responding to the things that are going on. italy itself did not do what president trump is trying to do. italy did not get ahead of this crisis. it allowed it to suppress in a way that is really frightening. northern italy has thousands of cases and, in fact, there are several hospitals that are refusing to treat elderly citizens because they don t have enough intensive care units and they don t have enough ventilators and so they have literally begun to triage and said look, if you are above a certain age or you have a certain health condition we are just not going to treat you. this is a pretty good health system. this is not a bad health system. but they are just drowning in northern italy in the number of people who have the disease. so, everything is closed down. movie theaters, museums, restaurants, schools, churches, weddings. funerals, all these i mean, they are really trying to lock the society in place in the hopes that they can stop this virus. but it s a very serious problem. sandra: very serious problem indeed. we wish you and your wife well, mr. speaker. we are watching this play out and the president is talking about, this we are told, in the oval office right now. we are going to get to that breaking news. speaker newt gingrich, we appreciate your time, thank you. thank you. ed: okay, we have got another fox news alert we have got to get on right away. espn is now reportin report thad member of the utah jazz you see him right 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they could accept most of the changes dealing with social security administration, dealing with generality for disaster aid. there were also some concerns about paid leave by republicans. so they are scrambling behind closed doors right now trying to retool this bill and pelosi thinks they can put that out later today. she did leave the door open, however, to recalling the house of representatives if they need to move again with something bigger over this upcoming two-week recess. kevin mccarthy thought they should continue to stay here until they work that out. pelosi says we don t need 48 hours or one or two days we can resolve this right now. pelosi also said this is not time for complaints. everyone could have a complaint but save that for another day. now, the question is if they get this through the house, then what happens in the united states senate? keep in mind that the house democrats they could have passed this on their own. but here s the risk. with the market tanking the way it has been today, there a lot of people up here who remember this very bad experience in late september 2008 with tarp and what happened they were putting the troubled asset relief program on the house floor and in synchronicity with the bill to rescue the economy tanking so did the market. they don t want to have that sort of experience here where the administration opposes something they pass in the house, ed. ed: we remember that live feed on the house floor. tarp was going down. you go over there was a split screen and wall street was melting down over that they want to avoid that chad pergram, we appreciate that sandra, a few minutes away from the remarks with the president. he had a lot it say about the coronavirus. sandra: questioned. spoke at length. meeting with the irish prime minister there. is he pressed on multiple occasions about the ongoing dilemma. over testing kits for the coronavirus. he is talking about millions of tests are out there. we are reading through some of the pool notes. hard to understand everything here, ed likely you will hear more from the president on what is being done at the federal level to combat this virus as fears grow grow of it spreading here at home. ed: big picture, of course, a traditional meeting where the irish prime minister comes in. a presentation of a bowl of shamrocks ahead of the saint patrick s day holiday. that has changed a lot this year though from dublin to tpwaoufpb here in new york where saint patrick s day parades have either been delayed or cancelled because of fears of the coronavirus. and the president obviously announcing just last night a travel ban from europe that does not include the u.k. though we should point out. but that s having a big impact on the markets this morning. sandra: we heard from the republican and democrats news conferences earlier talking about a payroll tax cut. the president talking about that being a good idea to distribute evenly among working class people. the president at the white house, we re going to watch and listen together. here s the president. ed: we are waiting. ed: as you can see a technical issue. it is going to play out. hear a little bit of the noise. something that happens in the business every and now again. want to get it to you as quickly as we can accurate and ready to go. the president speaking with the irish prime minister in the oval office. this is a tradition every president goes through. also note there is a tradition of presidents then joining the prime minister up on capitol hill with the speaker of the house that goes back to tipp o neal and ronald reagan. this year that s not happening. president saying that he and nancy pelosi don t have that kind of relationship. sandra: we will play that for you once it s ready. a bit of difficulty with it. we were just talking to newt gingrich about 2020 and some democrats saying it s time for bernie sanders to get out of the race on the florida next week of course with the primary there. the president was asked just moments ago about joe biden. he responded, hope they make their decision soon. everybody thought it would be bernie, super tuesday, the president said, was a disaster. so, he is also it s wide ranging. ed: whole bunch of subjects. bring in chief white house correspondent john roberts is always ready for any and everything that might be happening there at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. good morning, john. more importantly where weather i m ready or not he had and sandra. i got out of 20 minutes with the president. i asked him a number of questions. first question i asked him was about the travel ban and why he did not inform in advance eu leaders that this was coming in the president said we get along well. we didn t want to take the time to make the notification because time was short. he did say that he talked a couple of leaders about it though he didn t say who. i asked him about the impact that the travel ban would have on the economy. he said it will be a big impact. but the human impact is big as well. the president reiterating the heat that he took from opposition on the travel ban to china in the early going of this. the president also suggested that he is going to be canceling campaign rallies. he was supposed to travel to las vegas tonight to have events in las vegas and in reno. those have been cancelled. he also said there is a baking campaign rally coming up in tampa. i believe it s on the 26th. the president said that will probably be cancelled. he said we need some time to get this under control. it will eventually go away. the president also suggesting that he might do something under the emergency powers of the stafford act in the not too distant future in terms of declaring emergency so that the full weight of the federal government can be martialled to help out local governments. the president reiterating we are in great shape in the united states compared to other places. he said that stocks will bounce back at some point i asked him if he supported the house bill as it is. he said no, i do not. there is a lot of things in there that have nothing to do with the virus a lot that the president has to say there. that s just a preview. ed: a lot of breaking news there sandra, the new york times has sent out a breaking news alert saying that a senior brazilian official who was at president trump mar-a-lago days ago has tested positive for the virus. the new york times citing brazilian media. there has been a lot of questions about how people inside the white house, people on capitol hill are protecting themselves and those questions will continue. sandra: you are about to hear from the president talking about americans coming back from other countries. the president saying we are heavily testing. we are not putting them on planes if it shows they are positive. it will be strong enforcement of the quarantine. the dow is off 2,000 points. he is asked about that as well. now, here is the president of the united states at the oval office. like that for the next few weeks. mr. president, you talked about the trickle through effect of everything that we are seeing here? it s like when you cancel an nba season you are losing all of the revenue? i mean, that would alter the entire community. it has an obvious effect. the only thing worse is that you lose thousands and thousands of people more we would have lost than we are doing it now. it certainly has an impact. we are very much working with the states. the states are a smaller form of government. they can control individual arenas and individual things better. and it s different for different areas. some areas have no problem whatsoever in our country. and others do. so we re working with the governors of the various states and i think it s working very well. i think the relationship has been very good with california and some others that in particular have been hit. mr. president,. mr. president. looks like you will be facing joe biden in the presidential. are you happy? yeah, i m happy. whoever it is. i hope they make their choice soon. i thought it was going to be everybody thought it was going to be bernie. and i have said elizabeth warren, if she waited for, you know, she waited that extra three days, four days, and super tuesday was a disaster. he would have won every one of those states or almost, i think almost every one of those states, maine, massachusetts, texas. you take a look at the states that were very close, and many of her i would say most of her i would would say almost or many of her votes would have gone to him. had she left prior to super tuesday, which was just a few days, he would have right now been declared virtually the winner. it would have been over. now we have joe, and i m very happy to run against joe. mr. president,. don t forget one of the reasons i ran for president is because of joe and the job they did. so it s one of the reasons. so, in a way it s you know, it s maybe the way it should be. but it looks to me like it would be biden would win. are you [inaudible] united states, washington state other california? we haven t discussed that yet. is it a possibility? yes, if somebody gets a little out of control. if an area gets too hot. you have see what they are doing in new rochelle which is good, frankly. it s the right thing. it s not enforced. it s not very strong but people know they are being watched, new rochelle, that s a hot spot. a separate topic. you spoke to the saudi crowned prince the other day. i did. what did you tell him about the oil markets. i asked him what s going on? they are having a dispute with russia. this is something that drove oil prices down and one thing i can tell you is oil prices are at a point now that i would have dreamed about because the gasoline prices are going to be coming way down. they will be coming way down. so with gasoline prices coming down, that s like a tax cut. frankly, that s like a big tax cut, not a little tax cut for the consumer. so, there is something about that that i like. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. thank you very much. ed: okay, so that is a little bit shorter what we expected. what happened is you saw the technical problems at the beginning. that was sort of the end of the tape. it was a lot longer the session in the oval office with the irish prime minister and the reporters. the tape is going to be re-racked as they say and we ll play it in its entirety. i believe we still have john roberts our chief white house correspondent who was in the oval office. you heard his voice there asking some questions. so, we heard the end. we heard a little bit of the 2020 politics. on the coronavirus there was a lot the president said if you want to tee it up. john: there was. there was about 15 minutes that we missed there in terms of the technical difficulty you had in the playout. again, let s come back to the campaign rallies. the president suggesting that at least in the interim his campaign rallies are going to be cancelled or at least postponed. we also talked about the fact that he didn t support the democrat bill because he thought that it dealt with a lot more than the coronavirus. he said that americans, if they re coming back from europe, they are going to have to be tested. he said we have to have separation or this thing is not going to go away. i also asked him, ed, and sandra, about the attack by the iranian backed militia on u.s. forces in iraq. and whether that killed two u.s. forces and whether or not the iran or iranian backed militia should expect a response? he says i don t want to say but he said you will see. we will see what that response could be. he was asked about not going to the traditional saint patrick s day lunch up on capitol hill hosted by house speaker nancy pelosi. the president said i ve got other things to do. i m very busy. he also suggested that we could extend travel restrictions to europe, those could also be cut short, depending on how the situation in europe goes. on the tokyo olympics, i asked him what his thoughts were because he has been asked several times about this. he said it s a shame they have got all these beautiful facilities there in tokyo and ready to host the games. he suggest you had that maybe the tokyo olympics this summer should be postponed for by a year. i asked him if he would recommend that to abe. he said i wouldn t recommend it but maybe they need to be postponed. sandra: talked about a lot of different issues there in the oval office with the irish prime minister, john roberts. thank you for that so a little bit of change in the way we do things here but we are going to roll on the president shortly. ed: we are about 15 seconds away as we understand. it. we will play it from the very beginning. this is situation where all the networks are getting the tape at the same time. and the president here he is at the very beginning with the irish prime minister talking about the coronavirus and a lot more. thank you all very much. it s an honor to be with you prime minister of ireland. we have known each other for quite a while. we have great relationship and a great relationship with ireland and we have a lot to discuss. we will be talking about the obvious. and we will also be talking about the virus that s hit the world. they have cancelled their big soccer games. their championship games. a lot of other games they have cancelled a lot over in europe and all over the world. so this is a big world problem. we have taken some bold steps. we took the original boldest step of all when we closed very early with china. that helped us save thousands of lives. and we went very early with europe. and i think that will likewise be very good and hopefully we can get it back together very quickly in terms of reestablishing with china, that s on track to something happened fairly quickly because they have made a lot of progress over the last three or four weeks. and certainly with europe, we think we can go hopefully very quickly. they have some hot spots that are really bad but they will get them. germany has some problems now. france has some problems. some pretty big problems. and italy, of course, is probably record-setting in terms of what they have gone through. italy is having a very hard time. but we think we will reestablish very quickly once this ends and it s just a question of time. i think it will go pretty quickly. stay away from people and wash your hands and do all of the things that we re supposed to be doing. a little bit anyway. but it will be it will go very quickly. i know that we were just talking that ireland has closed their schools and maybe i would ask the prime minister to say a little bit about what you are doing in ireland having to do with what we are going through. first of all, thank you, mr. president for having us again here today. leading up to saint patrick s day. another opportunity, i think, to show how close ireland and america are and how good our relationship is politically and economically and everything else. and saint patrick s day has become a symbol of you who close ireland and america are. and continue to stay close in the future. the big concern with ireland and europe at the moment is covid-19. and we have acted just as have you acted decisively in the last couple of days. so we have restrictions on travel, for example, italy for a few days already. but as of tomorrow, our cools will close. our kareshs will close. we are suspending all indoor gatherings of more than 100 people and outdoor more than 500 all from the advisement of our cdc that we need to do this for a couple of weeks to make sure the virus doesn t spread and particularly trying to protect older people and people with chronic diseases, 13 or 14 cases so far one death. we have a concern that could rise. that s why we are taking the action we are taking. as you know it s a virus that s gone pandemic. it s all over the world. no borders, there is no nationalities. and i think we all need to work together in the world on this and america in particular you are the richest country in the world. you have got great scientists, great companies, great universities, and we need them working on treatments and tests and working on a vaccine. that is what will get us on top of it. right, and we are making great progress there. was i with the vice president this morning who i know is heading up the task force for you and he gave me a lot of confidence that you are getting on top of this and you are investing in this. yes. mr. president, ireland excluded from your european travel ban. i think it was made very clear last night who is and who isn t. and we will be discussing that we will be discussing some other moves we will be making, and i think it s going to work out well for everybody. it s a world problem. you do need separation in some cases. have you some areas very heavily infected and some areas that aren t, frankly. you do need separation for a little peer of time in some cases. the president has excluded ireland from the travel ban. one of the things we have in ireland is cbp american border secures in ireland. i went through it myself yesterday and they were asking the right questions whether people had been to china and things like that. one of the reasons u.k. basically has been it s has got the border. very strong borders and they are doing a very good job. they don t have very much infection at this point and hopefully they will keep it that way. mr. president, there are many european leaders who are upset that they weren t consulted about the travel ban. can you explain your rationale for not consulting with them first before announcing it last night? well, we get along very well with european leaders, but we had to make a decision and i didn t want to take time and, you know, it takes a long time to make the individual calls. and we are calling. and we have spoken to some of them prior to. some of the majors prior to but we had to move quickly. when they raise taxes on us, they don t consult us, and i think that s probably one of the same. they have done things, european union, as you know, has done some very big tax raises over the years, not so much with me because i won t put up with it, but they haven t consulted us and in the case of european union, i have consulted with many people. do you have any idea what the overall economic impact of these travel restrictions will be. there will be a big impact but it s a bigger impact and also a human impact which is more important frankly than the financial. when you lose thousands of additional lives. as an example, if i didn t close very, very early, leo, you know we closed very early with china, and i took a lot of heat, including from you people, a lot of heat. they called me everything from a racist to everything else. it was terrible. and the same people then they say oh, he closed too fast. why did he close. most of them said why did he close with china? that turned out to be a great move. what we did with europe, this was the time. and china, a lot of it came from when you think of what happened to europe because it was very fast and very furious, and what happened is a lot of people went from china into europe, and europe suffered tremendously. you know, you see what s going on. and so i just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the united states. and that s what we have done. we have stopped it. mr. president,. what are your plans, mr. president, about campaign rallies, about travel outside the white house? you originally had some travel on the schedule for tonight. we did have big rallies. we canceled one that we were thinking about doing in las vegas, as you know. and one in reno, nevada. we had one we had about three of them in nevada, actually. and we had four or five of them that we were thinking about. we have a big one in tampa all sold out. we had over 100,000 requests for tickets. but i think we will probably not do it because people would say it s better to not do. you know, we need a little separation until such time as it goes away. it s going to go away. it s going to go away. i was watching scott this morning. and he was saying within two months. but, you know, in the meantime, we want to lose as few people as possible. so important. and what is the number as of this morning? is it 32? you could tell me. is it 32 deaths, steve, around that, think of it, the united states, because of what i did, and what the administration did with china, we have 32 deaths at this point. other countries that are smaller countries have many, many deaths. 332 is a lot. 32 is too many. when you are looking at the kind of numbers you see coming out of other countries it s pretty amazing when you think of it. so, that s it. steve, go ahead. [inaudible] stafford act today? we have things that i can do. we have very strong emergency powers under the stafford act. and we rehaven t i havent memorized as to the powers in that act. if we need to do something. i have the right to do a lot of things people don t even know about. are you going it do that today? i don t want to say that. at some point it may be some of the more minor things at this point, but, you know, look, we are in great shape. compared to other places, we are in really good shape. and we want to keep it that way. that s why i did the ban with respect to europe. mr. president. emergency actions that you can take? i have a lot of emergency actions that i can take. with regard to workers, what are you looking at to help american workers. well, we are looking at a lot of things, including paid leave and looking at many things. make sure they are going to get their salaries. we have other workers, too. those are people that work for tips and nobody thinks about them. and we are including them in a lot of our schedules. we we are also making sure the companies, which are good companies, stay solvent. have the money necessary to keep functioning. we have a lot of things that we are working on with the financial markets, and it s going to work out fine. you have to remember, the stock market as an example is still much higher than when i got here. it has taken a big hit but it will all bounce back and it s going to bounce back very big at the right time. reporter: for the american workers president trump: we are deciding right now. we are dealing also prior to even the stafford act with the democrats in congress. we will see what can be done. i happen to think that a payroll tax cut would be a very good idea, it really distributes it very evenly among middle-class and other workers. many workers, it would be a great thing. i happen to think it would be a great thing even beyond this, okay? so we are looking at the payroll tax cut, and that won t come immediately because that is a stronger measure. but we are looking to do that, and i think at the right time congress will probably go along with it. it really is the most sensible thing. we had the biggest bankers in the world here yesterday giving their opinions. they all thought a payroll tax cut would be a good thing. it would evenly and quickly disturbed a lot of money. reporter: do you support the house to look at bill? president trump: no, there are things in there that have nothing to do with what we are talking about. it s not a way for them to get some of the goodies they haven t been able to get for the last 25 years. reporter:] indistinct] president trump: always, always. just like her by minister, always. not only welcome, loved. we have millions. what is the number now? it changes every year, gets bigger. about 35 million. as mike can you imagine? it s got to be one of our biggest. we love the irish. we are going to be looking about, talking about that today. it s a very important part of our conversation. that s going to be actually a very important part of our conversation. reporter: [indistinct] president trump: i think there s a lack of security. if they use huawei, it s a real problem with intelligence and intelligent security. we will see what happens. we will discuss that point, too. reporter: [indistinct] president trump: can they what? reporter: can americans president trump: we have them very heavily tested. if an american or anybody is coming back, we are testing. we have a tremendous testing set up were people coming and have to be tested. if they are positive and they are able to get through because of frankly, if they are not, we are not putting them on planes if it shows positive. if they do come here, we are
down. we begin with susan li. charles, wall street and many, many years. the worst day since 2011, and the first time since 1997 circuit breakers kicked in. that means that trading was halted just a few minutes into the session and the stock market fell from 7%. why? because of oil prices as you mentioned plummeting, and having the worst day since the gulf war back in 1991. that s because saudi arabia says they will cut prices but continued to pump at the same time. now saying that the dow was just 200 points away from falling into bear market territory, 20 down from the recent high. and it would have been the longest bull market run in history. as you can imagine a lot of the oil stock and big majors falling into session turning out the lowest since 2004, chevron the lowest since 2017. along with s&p pulled off as well. cruise lines are getting pummeled and the state departments have warned u.s. citizens not to travel on them sunday. and just taking the market to temperature, and just the average folk. this is not a whole lot of panic. listen. there is a scare with the coronavirus thing, and it is disrupting the market. but it will recover. i m not highly concerned. we are not scared, no. i do my selling yesterday, i got lucky at the top. i saw a good amount of things at the top. now it is buying opportunity here. we were looking for some green on the screen, and fell back as we saw gains in the session, that was walmart because of a lot of people buying and stocking up on soul applies for the coronavirus spread, and also clorox. we know that clorox has gone up with price gouging on the internet, because of the stock market supplies, now a 100% chance that it will cut interest rates by 75 basis points. three quarters of 1% next week. back to you. speak to susan, thank you very much. president trump back at the white house after traveling from florida. expected to hit him with a list of proposals this afternoon all and add to set stemming the fallout with kristin fisher. kristin. president trump is meeting with his top economic advisor and the treasury secretary to discuss the possibility of some kind of targeted stimulus to offset the impact of the coronavirus. one is paid sick leave to anyone leaving with the virus. in another option is some assistance for the industries hit the hardest. airline, cruise liners, the white house as any assistance would have to be targeted, timely, and temporary. over on capitol hill, chuck grassley, the chairman of the senate finance committee is exploring targeting taxing measures. but some democrats are worried that the president is prioritizing tax cuts for businesses over the safety of everyday americans. listen here. there is a concern that we have that he may try to do something to take down corporate america s concerns. but we are saying all of america benefits if you take america s working families, because consumer balance is the lifeblood of the economy. to speak about the health secretary says that concern is not necessary. that it is possible to do both. here is alex azar this morning. our economic team will work on the economic aspect and president trump delivering the best economy in modern history, knows the tools to keep the economy going, but his first focus is public health. the president being presented with options today, but it remains very unclear which ones if any he will move forward with, and we may be getting some clarity when the vice president holds his briefing a little bit later today. charles: thank you very much, and stocks were rocked. it is the worst over or should we brace for more selling? let s ask scott martin at the cme. let me start with a meal, you come on my show on the fox business network often. you have been spot on. you saw this coming. but now everything is getting hit pretty good. is this the wall street selling that they want to see? yes, there was climatic selling last friday, and kudos, but the reality is that i called some of it, not all of it. and that is the thing, that is okay. because as investors, there are a lot of things you have to keep a perspective or wrong. where your time horizon is, and what assets you own, because there are assets that i have in tech land that are getting absolutely hammered. but there are things doing fine. gold combo that we still love, near and dear to my heart is doing fine. so the reality is as investors and knowing that we are going fine, things are worse when we are in the belly of the beast. to susan doing those interviews on the street, it was surprising to see optimism, but more of that will build up over time as well as settling down in the market will go up again, i can promise you that. charles: referring back to susan s interviews, most of those folks are pretty optimistic and think that it will move on. of course after 1 11 years of buying, it is not commission that way. but seeing the individual investor completely throw in the towel, does that have to happen before the market turns around? i would say that it does, if, charles, we were not in such a strong economy to begin with. you look back to the jobs numbers on friday and go back to the michigan consumer numbers that came in better-than-expected. that had the beginnings of coronavirus in it. we are going to get another one this week. so the consumer confidence staying up, we can see the optimism about buying will be up as well. we are very near the bottom. my reasoning for that is that this will not be completely untouched and left alone by the trump administration. these targeted stimulus packages are going to happen, especially because we are in an election year, whether it is lasting stimulus or not is very important. because once you get the footing back under the global economy in general, we do not even see the demand falling off. we just know it is going to happen. so this is a repricing that is necessary, but it is overdone. charles: that report that you referred to the last few days of the report, 20% of the respondents mentioning that the coronavirus. but that was at 90 on average which is still pretty high. i want to bring in our token. a lot of moving parts here this week. we are anticipating may be that ecb will make a big move. maybe the bank of england. you may be the u.k. budget. the federal government here. but to the point, the administration is saying everything they do will be timely, target, and temporary. do they need something more committal? no, i think that it s right. what the fiscal policy responses going to do is going to be much more of a psychological benefit than it is a functional benefit. that is important. one of the things that the government wants to do is say, listen, we will get the test in your hands if you needed and don t have insurance, you will not pay for it. if you need to stay home, we will expand your unemployment insurance. they are temporary but provide comfort so when people i m in contact, they don t go into the workplace. and the second thing is important to have everything as we have gotten to the levels of equity evaluations, thousand companies trade internationally on the new york stock exchange. we have a 52-week low, that has happened twice in recent history. in 87 and 2008. we are in a washed out stage, a fiscal policy response will be very helpful if not functionally, certainly psychologically. charles: so could the best-case scenario be that we trade in the violent swings, perhaps there will be success when the dow is up over 1,000 points, 1500 points, but we are out of it until we get more data on the economic outcome in the medical outcome? yeah, and that is a hard premise to really undertake, charles, because it gets pretty tiring after days like this over and over again. i understand that the plight of the investor on this one and why you have to buy gold. i do caution a little bit. and art makes a great point that there needs to be a fiscal stimulus and work from congress. but my goodness, guys, this is a government that has abandoned the people. look at the left media and the left-leaning folks in congress who i feel just want to tear down the economy and tear apart people s 401(k)s at the expense of that to win in november. we are counting a lot on the government to get there you know what together to help us. and i think that that is why the market is distorted. they do not believe that the government can collaborate to help us out. charles: i just read moments ago where governor newsom had kind words for president trump and vice president pence. this is important. this is where all government officials need to do the right thing. thank you very much. i want to go to collapsing oil prices, president trump tweeting that saudi arabia and russia are fighting over the inflating oil. that is the reason for the market dropped, still charles: what exactly is going on? the price war between saudi arabia and russia, the president is absolutely right. we look at what is happening with that, this is targeting the u.s. producer. not directly, but russia, they reason they did not go along with saudi arabia s production cut mainly was because they were worried about losing more market share to the u.s. energy producers. now of course because saudi arabia is really upset. it has decided to go full out and tried to bury it not only russia, but every other oil producer on the face of the earth is raising production, undercutting their competitors, and really giving the market a big time. that s good for the consumer because they get lower gasoline prices. the confidence in the market is what we are seeing today could be hurt. charles: one theory i heard is that russia also wanted to deliberately kick back at the administration. it hurt our shell oil producers and did a good job because of the sanctions that we put on their big oil company. it s at that convoluted? does this make this more of a geopolitical issue and even an economic issue? i think there is some geopolitics behind it. the reason why that story doesn t necessarily hold water is because the median over the weekend, the russians at that time were saying, we did not want a production war. we just wanted to extend cuts. if they really wanted to get back at the u.s. energy producers because of the sanctions, they would have flooded the market earlier. i don t think that s the case. but it is a win-win for them. killing two birds with one stone here. charles: it looks like it s tough. thank you very much, phil. the coronavirus panic keeps wrapping up throughout the country while officials are urging, we should be calming down. i m your 70lb st. bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. my focus is on the road, and that s saving me cash with drivewise. 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social distancing we know it is become even more of an important issue as time goes on very likely. right now, social distancing and how we should be doing it really depends on who we are and where we are. as we know, there are hot spots in the country. your risk depends on where you are in the country and in the world. and of course your level of risk as a person. we know, charles, that older individuals have a higher rate of risk of negative side effects than younger people. other people are negatively affected. as well as people with chronic conditions and severe medical conditions. heart problems, lung problems and things without nature. social distancing is going to defend on those factors. there are some people right now. the cdc is recommending right now if you are older, chronic conditions, you should be social distancing. for someone who does not have that, you make a different decision. charles: thank you very much. they guys that want to be in the white house are ripping a guy that lives on a white house over the coronavirus. we have a live update from the campaign trail next. things you can do with schwab: you can earn more when you invest your cash. you can get a satisfaction guarantee. you can also wonder why our competitors don t offer that. schwab, a modern approach to wealth management. hi.aria ramirez? 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[cheers and applause] and should anybody is that a radical statement? no! that is the most obvious statement anybody can make. sanders is telling voters of michigan is the most important state on tomorrow s plate. joe biden is here in michigan warning people at a health center that the stuff bernie sanders premises sounds good, but would take too long. now, senator sanders is a good man. his medicare for all push will be a long and expensive if he could do it at all. the patients cannot wait for a revolution. they are looking for results. a few minutes ago, biden wrapped up his campaign event with this newest endorser, cory booker told biden he thought he was in the kool-aid and did not know the flavor. charles. charles: i do remember that. thank you very much. michigan has 125 delegates. and the pols, has joe biden opening up a big lead over bernie sanders. let me start with you. you know, of course, sanders won this state against hillary clinton. i think his camp has admitted that this might be that they must win this state. bernie obviously had a terrible week last week on super tuesday because joe biden had such an amazing one. biden did much better than expected. we are looking at michigan, berni does need the delegates. it s about numbers. it s also about momentum. last cycle against henry clinton, what we haven t mentioned is the fact that clinton a lot of the voters did not like hillary clinton. joe biden does not appear to be having the same problems that clinton did. even bernie the numbers aside, it s also a big test for who can do well in these states in the general election? these are states throughout the midwest that president trump at won. they are traditionally democratic states. this is a good litmus test for how these candidates perform in these states. if berni wins michigan, he has a much better case to be making as a kind of candidate they can get these voters to go back blue. charles: if bernie loses it, it feels like that is all she rode. you have to wonder how accommodating he will be to accept that new reality and how much he will support the party. last time, there was a lot of ruffled feathers. that helped president trump. i think you re right. if either is michigan, knock on wood, joe biden is in a really good position to win michigan, then that is all she rode. i don t think that if we have learned anything from the past, candidate bernie sanders goes quietly into the night. in some ways, he is trying to push forward his agenda despite whether he wins the nomination or not. the right way to go is joe biden approached. he is talking about shoring up the aca, the affordable care act. making sure that we are getting what is right in fixing what is wrong with that rather than going something so radical as medicare for all. like the vice president said, might sound like a good idea. but when you actually talk to michigan voters, particularly union workers who have fought so hard to negotiate health care for themselves, this is not actually a popular position. charles: we hear that in nevada that the workers there had these great union medical benefits and they would not vote for bernie. he had ended up with 47% at the end. do you think the problem here is that elizabeth warren probably should have dropped out a week earlier, rallying her progressive base around him and maybe this would be a different story. you start talking agendas, joe biden will have to bring a whole lot of bernie sanders with him. even a vaccine that doesn t exist yet. yeah. i don t think elizabeth warren dropping out any sooner would have made too much of a difference. what we have seen with her supporters is that they actually are not automatically bernie supporters. they break both ways. both to biden and bernie. i think we assume that most of the time that they end up being bernie supporters. i don t think that is the case. i do think that michigan we have seen 2 polls out that biden is far ahead. the polls have been very, very unreliable. in 2016, they were not close at all. i think that it is not all that she wrote yet. we have to see what happens. there are also other states that come after that. i do think that bernie will stay in and hobbled toward the finish line as long as possible. while i think that we are acting like this is kind of said and done, i think there is a long ways to go. charles: that is probably what bernie s camp is saying right at this moment. the market is down today over coronavirus fears. my next guest said it s time for wall street and washington to shape up and take control of this virus. commander lieutenant general russell is here next. dad, i m scared. it s only human to care for those we love. and also help light their way. it s why last year chevron invested over $10 billion to bring affordable, reliable, ever cleaner energy to america. charles: we are keeping an eye on a grand princess now dog in oakland, california. we have seen people dressed in hazmat suits as tensors set up for passengers to disembark. you red keeping an eye on it ad we will be back in 60 seconds. we store it for as long as you want. then, we deliver it where you want, so whether you need to move or store your things, pods is here to help you with flexible moving and storage solutions. you know what s good about this? your sign s pointing at my sign, so people are gonna look at my sign. switch to progressive and you can save hundreds. you know, like the sign says. what we know about the dow is that they want certainty. they want confidence that there is a plan. i think what is happening is a reflection of the lack of confidence. and so we would hope that what is coming out of the white house will be more consistent with what the health advisors are putting forth. charles: house speaker nancy pelosi saying that the dip in the market is partly because of an inconsistent message coming from the white house. some need a calming voice during this crisis much like my next guest who is that a voice. russel, thanks for joining us. good afternoon, sir. charles: this is uncharted waters. at different sort of situation. overall, the situations are the same where the nation is looking for guidance and reassurance. absolutely. this is a part of our challenge with national security. the unfortunate thing, we are dealing with three crises simultaneously in the democracy. one of them being the virus itself. the medical side of that, and the response. a second one, the response to the financial community. they have got wobbly on us over the virus. third, we are in the political season. those three things, charles, can dominate the news and how people report it does not build confidence in the people. wall street i thought they were stronger than this and better than this. if they ve made a lot of money. if they were not crying on the way up. they are sure yelling on the way down. when they get down, they will buy back. i think they need to steady themselves and look at the rules for wall street after this is over. because this seems to be way over reaction. charles: i agree with you 1000%. the wall street pros who push those buttons are extremely selfish. a lot of people understand that. if you create enough panic, you create enough buying opportunities. i can t take the pain. in the history, if they held in, things get better. you also brought up the great point about the reporting on this as well. we have those three things that you were talking about. they sort of blend in with each other. where is the responsibility? i just feel like there has been a major letdown so far in this crisis. well, i think. let s face it. up front, we didn t know what we didn t know. the information was not consistent coming out of china. that is normal. when we get an outbreak of this type, that s normal. we stumble a little bit on whether we had the right kids in the numbers. that is being fixed. people need to have confidence in that. what i have seen over the weekend is that the medical community coming out with some clear messages. don t panic. this is the categories that are most affected. the elderberry , elderly flu-like symptoms, but remember, it is 40 times more infectious than the normal flu. so once someone is identified, we have to do the medical investigation to isolate that person and all of the people that have made contact. i think the medical message is getting on target. what we have to fix now is figure out what rules we ve got to break in a future to be able to respond more quickly. charles: let s talk more about that. we have a ship docked in oakland, california. they are taken off those with highest risk. and potentially quarantining part of this country. we know that there are pockets of the outbreak whether it is a county in washington or westchester new york. you have been involved in those kind of things. this is tricky, but you said to break a rule s. it sounds like maybe this could be an area where we could consider that. use that word quarantine around the cdc, and they all break out in a cold sweat. they do not want to get into quarantine. nor should they at this point in time, because they will look to the local governments and i think the governors and the mayors we ve seen are doing a good job in talking to their people. responding and getting people to isolate. but there may come a place in time where government is going to have to tell people, you must stay in your home. and americans always like instant solutions. we like our freedom. but, people, we need to start conditioning people and prepare our first responders. there will be people, we have to say you must stay in your home until we get control of the spreading of the disease and get more test kits where you will be able to pick a test kit up at walmart. we have to get that level of testing. charles: general russel honore, thank you very much. good day, sir. charles: remember that cruise ship? now it is docked in oakland, california. it could be days before some people get off that ship. i m your 70lb st. bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. my focus is on the road, and that s saving me cash with drivewise. charles: officials have set up tents outside the docked grand princess cruise ship as thousands of passengers prepare to disembark. in oakland, california, it with the latest. charles, it took about 30 minutes for the grand princess to dock here at the port of oakland. you can see this ship over my shoulder. thousands of passengers watched the talking operations from their balconies. at their ordeal not over yet. here is how it will go. to those who are the sickest on board including the 21 who tested positive for covid-19, they will be taken out first and transported to local hospitals. the remaining passengers will be taken to military bases for more covid-19 testing and a mandatory 14-day quarantine. this unused shipping terminal has been transformed into an 11. making sure everything goes smoothly to transport these people as quickly and safely as possible. as soon as all the passengers are off, the ship will leave oakland with the captain and crew spinning their 2-week quarantine on board. this is a massive operation. a lot of moving parts. officials hoping they can put off in two or three days. after three weeks at sea, every went looking at a 2-week mandatory quarantine at least. charles: folks, do you see this? if you are a person with an underlying condition, you need to think twice about getting on a plane or on a long trip. not only think twice, just don t get on a cruise ship. charles: warning high risk groups from taking cruises, even attending a large gatherings amid the coronavirus outbreak. should high-risk people canceled their trips? i want to bring in a travel agent who joins me now via sky skype. a lot of these folks have saved up for some of these trips. it is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of things. what are you saying to them? i am telling elderly people, they might want to think about not going especially on cruise ships. on long flights, i would not necessarily say don t do it. especially cruises in asia or in that region, i probably would not go. i still would not tell them to go to the caribbean at this point for me. charles: what precautions if they decide to go are you suggesting to them? do they go and wipe down the seats, clean the area they are in? how do they protect themselves if they decide, i have spent too much on this. i can t afford not to go. i would tell them the same thing that the cdc and w.h.o. is saying. wash your hands. don t touch your face. don t be in contact with sick people. bring the bacterial wipes, and disinfectant, and be smart. use common sense. if you feel sick, don t go out and let a doctor know. charles: the diamond francis thinks it s going to go back out next month. maybe it will and maybe it won t. how impact it has cruise industry been? really until yesterday and today, it hadn t been as bad as you think. but with the cdc and the government coming out and basically telling people not to get on cruise ships, it s obviously not good news. we will see how that transpires. a lot of people have booked cruises that are still going to go. caribbean cruises really have not been affected. mediterranean cruises have not been affected. the hot season is coming up soon. we will see how that goes. ages hot season is right around may. we will see how it goes right now. we are kind of an uncharted territory. charles: you feel that potentially comes back. they have overcome a lot of things. different kind of outbreaks and they have survived. this is the ultimate test, isn t it? it seems that way. but, you know, travel is the backbone to the global economy. i will pull through one way or the other. charles: thank you very much, my friends. the new york stock exchange, 17 hours from now, probably not so much. limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you. lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. charles: we have our breaking news alert here. u.s. banking urging to help borrowers struggling to repay loans due to the coronavirus, the federal reserve to provide what they call appropriate assistance to affected institutions. today it was any indication to the rest of the week of stock exchange, get some dramamine. i wish i could be like many other people and have this crystal ball and make a prediction for you. we don t know where the markets are going to go. it is not stopped analysts and economists from making predictions on this historic day when you had circuit breakers that halted across the board. the s&p 500, the nasdaq as well as that dow has no more than 7%. i started with morgan stanley. they issued a note today. they believe that we could potentially be heading towards a recession in the next 2-3 mont months. several of those market risks that they issued is the fact that you have this panic right now. consumers are rushing to get their cleaning wipes and everyone does not want to shake hands anymore. you have lower oil because of the drama that s going on between saudi arabia and russia. companies are freezing their hiring at the moment and possibly this is a hypothetical situation. we could see layoffs in the energy sector. at of course, added data across the board. goldman sachs economist expect the federal reserve s to slash interest rates back to levels we saw in 2015 which would make the debt a lot cheaper. what does this mean for the sake of consumers going forth? target told us and the rest of the globe that they are limiting the sales of disinfectant wipes due to high demand. they could be a major issue when you start as a companies lowering or restricting how many disinfectants you can buy. people already talking about how difficult it is to get anything from costco or walmart selling across the board. we have this entire situation. it s not necessarily about the virus itself, but how companies are being proactive telling their employees to work from home. people are working to stock up on this nonperishable items. charles: thank you very much. meanwhile, president trump touching down a washed where fear of a coronavirus outbreak is ramping up. more after this.nt spend a bit , knowing we re prepared for tomorrow. wow, do you think you overdid it maybe? overdid what? well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. 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texas republican roger williams joins me now to discuss and congressman williams, hebron attendee at cpac where someone h the coronavirus there, senator ted cruz is on some kind of quarantine, self quarantine. who is this person and how do you feel? i don t know who the person was, i did speak that morning at that opening of cpac. but i don t think i came in contact with this person. i feel great. we are moving on, but those that did of course are working their life accordingly but we are in good shape here from a personal standpoint. major breaking news, italy is shutting down the entire country, shut down 60 million of its citizens, it s been a remarkable turnaround in the rate of infections and deaths there, only 40 new cases yesterday in china. do you think ultimately this could be the prescription for certain parts of our country where there have been big outbreaks? i m not sure. i want to say this first of all, the president and vice president pence have done a good job of getting ahead of this. i ve been to every briefing and the cdc is doing a really good job so i don t want to predict. we know growing up in this country that flu season is a season we deal with and so forth, so the situation is serious when we are losing people, but as far as shutting the country down and shutting congress down, shutting businesses down, i m not sure. i don t want to say yes panic. we need to be aware, but not afraid. many small ones are in trouble right now, everyone is awaiting to hear what the white house is going to come up with. we keep hearing temporary and i forgot the other, targeted. is that going to be enough do you think to sort of quell the anxiety on wall street and main street? let s see what they come up with, i am a retail main street and the economy is still good with interest rates being low in people having jobs and people are still purchasing things so we don t want to mess up that balance but at the same time, take it serious and see what the government comes up with to alleviate some concerns for small businesses like mine and let s proceed to try to get to the point of normal again. we were an economic juggernaut until he ran into this and i think will make it through it. i thank you very much, always appreciated. now of course, the coverage of the coronavirus on the markets and of course your wallet, tomorrow, catch me on making money 2:00 p.m. eastern time, a rough day, record point losses across the board. the five starts right now. interesting sound. hello, i am greg gutfeld with katie pavlik, dana perino, juan williams, and jesse watters. the five. never let a crisis go to waste. every time a crisis of peers, that follows. take democrat jackie speier who tried trump for not canceling rallies over the virus. the fact that he is not willing to cancel his various rallies suggest that he is willing to place and even his most supporters at risk.