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Fear over the coronavirus and a war over oil prices. now, health experts say the virus is at a point of rapid acceleration here in the u.s. despite those claims from the president's top political appointees that the virus is contained. >> i will still argue to you that this is contained. it can't be airtight. >> it is being contained. and do you not think it is being contained? >> under way here in the united states, there is a large outbreak in seattle. that's the one withe know about. probably santa klacollar clara, cities. we have to implement broad mitigation strategies. >> we're in a miti...

Surgeon general has said the virus is not contained. and others, fauci, the virus is not contained. nobody believes the virus is contained. yet, they were still saying it on friday. do you expect a change of tone on monday? will kellyanne conway come out and apologize for attacking the cbs news reporter today and say, well, yeah, it's not contained, and we're actually in the mitigation phase now? >> pretty confident there won't be an apology, joe. i think there are two things. one, backing up a step, i think this is an administration that was too slow to react months ago, when this crisis firs...

>> well, the prosecution has to establish guilt, it's obligated by beyond a reasonable doubt to make sure they get these convictions, there are 33 federal pending charges, 18 of which are murder charges, so in order to, you know prevail on this case, they're going to have to convince that jury, and let me tell you something, you saw the tape, you heard the tape, this is repugnant behavior, sinister ghastly behavior and i think there is no doubt that a conviction will be attained. the more complicated part of this case will be mitigation, that is how is that going to be handled and to comely in...

A deep hatred for man kind. he got the doctor to agree mr. homes was award of killing human being. >> you ray agree that the defendant was aware he would be cause thing people to suffer. >> i think he certainly had the capacity to have that awareness. and i think he also took steps to minimize that awareness. >> we are in the mitigation phase of the sentencing hearing. this is the defense's opportunity to sway the jury to slave they're client's life. if they cannot agree that the death penalty is still on the table, hoe. will get life in prison. i if they do agree we move on to victim impact. ...

Argument and testimony. the way the flaw works in colorado. the jury hands down three verdicts. last week the first verdict found holmes is is eligible for the death penalty. that means we are in the mitigation phase when folks say nice things about the defendant. if the jury finds the good out weighs the bad gets life in prison. at some point the judge will ask holmes if he plans to take the stand in his own behalf. then we'll find out if we'll hear from him himself. court gets under way in a few minutes. martha: the white house is pushing back against critics of