This bridge. In somehow some way god almighty kept me here. We cannot give up now. We cannot give in. We must keep the faith, keep our eyes on the prize. We must go out and vote like we never ever voted before. Lets do it thelma is a different place. Americas a different place. But we can make it much better use the vote as a nonviolent instrument or tool to redeem the soul of america. A few minutes ago, i spoke to congressman lewis by phone and i wanted to know why, given his illness, so much happening in his life right now he felt it was so important to be on that bridge in selma today. 65 years ago, i gave a little blood on that bridge, and i felt that i should come back and be here with the people because theres still hundreds and thousands of people in america that have been left out and left behind. Peoples Voting Rights have been abused or denied. People Still Standing in long lines when they come to register or when they come to vote. We must make it simple and easy for people to participate in the democratic process. In your memoir, you wrote about your experience in 1965, quote if there was ever a time in my life for me to panic, it should have been then, but i didnt. I remember how strangely calm i felt, as i thought, this is it. People are going to die here. Im going to die here. What was it like to be back on that bridge in selma today . It was very moving to be back on the bridge today, to see hundreds and thousands of young people with their mothers, their fathers, their grandparents, greatgrandparents, to see black and white people, hispanics, and others standing together, marching together, walking together, to not forget what happened and how it happened. In your remarks, you talked about the importance of voting. You said quote vote like youve never voted before. What did you mean by that . I simply meant that we have the power to change things, and the vote is the most powerful nonviolent instrument or tool we have in the democratic society. We must use it. If we fail to use it we will lose it. You also spoke about redeeming the soul of america. What does that look like . We have to make america better. All the people. Where no one is left out or left behind because of their race, their color, because of where they grew up or where they were born. We are one people, one family, we all live in the same house. Thats the american house. But what do you see as the next step, because you spoke on the bridge how times are different today than they were in 1965, thank goodness, yet there is more progress to be made. What do you see as the next step . We continue to see all about young people, all about children receive the best possible education. We got to see that people are able to move up and not stay down. We must continue to we must respect the dignity and the worth of all of our citizens. We live in a strange period. I lived and grew up during the days of different president s. I got to know president kennedy, met with him twice. It was the greatest sense of hope, greatest sense of optimism. We must find a way to inject into america a sense of hope, a sense of optimism for all of our citizens. What gives you hope today . I am very hopeful and very optimistic we will work everything out. Its the feeling that the changes that are continues to witness in so many different parts of america, and the American People want us to be hopeful, to be optimistic and to lead them to a better place, to a better time. Thats what we must do. Finally, what is your message to any young potential john lewis out there today, trying to make whatever it is they do count and make a better more equal more justice life for those that are in future generations . I always say to young people, to be bold, be brave, be courageous, never hate, whereas dr. Martin luther king, jr. Said on so many occasions. Hate is too heavy a burden to bear. The way of love is a much better way. Our thanks to congressman john lewis again. Now joining us is cnn senior political analyst and former advisor to four president s, david gergen and former South Carolina state representative, Bakari Sellers. First, your reaction to those words to john lewis in selma. I have the privilege of knowing john lewis very well, a child of the civil rights time as well and my father was pret of whats known as snik and shot in 1968 with three other sounds. Three others wounded and three killed. I look at john lewis as not just a hero but a representative of young africanamericans that gave up so much so i could sit on a set with you today and david gergen. I dont think people truly understand, we talk about civil rights, how far weve come in this country, its only one generation away. Were only one generation away from my father being shot, one generation away from john lewis being beaten on that bridge, one generation away from dr. King being assassinated, sarah mae from things, emmett till and others. The list goes on and on. We still have a lot of work to do. We have to, and i think david knows down south we have these funky sayings. One is you have to give people their flowers while theyre living. We need to give john lewis his flowers and let him know we thank him and appreciate him and the struggle continues. David, youre thoughts. Im glad to be here. Bakari, as you know, he is one of the proteges of john lewis and what came out of the john lewis life and marched with him. That was to inspire a new generation, bakaris generation. Were one generation from the bad old days but could be close to the new bad days. Were going through a rough period now. To see john lewis come to the pettus bridge 55 years later, knowing as we do hes battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer has special meaning for us today. Im glad we paused after South Carolina, the primary there, to talk about the larger values. We get in these political analysis and down in the weeds and see a lot of scuffling. John lewis reminds us of the deeper values that bring us all together, i hope. He also reminded people of the power of the vote. Vote like youve never ever voted before. Lets talk about the votes. Biden won big in South Carolina last night. When i say big, he decimated the competition there. He won nearly every single county, nearly 50 of the vote. Does this reset for super tuesday . He certainly qualifies as a comeback kid. Only a few weeks ago he was ahead across the country and ahead by solid margins in california and places like texas that will vote on tuesday. Everything changed and he went down and sanders went up. The question now is, can he continue going up again . There were a lot of people in big states like california and texas that supported them before, will they come back to him . I think he has a real shot in both states, especially texas, where hes very competitive. Hes shows his bullance and confidence. Hes a better candidate than a few weeks ago. Really interesting living in a time an Africanamerican Community comes out and votes and res risk the candidacy of a white american. Thats real progress. If you havent seen our colleague, the shoutout he gave you way back on february 3rd, despite bidens fourth finish place in iowa he would win South Carolina, he said, bakari was right and i was wrong. Chris admitting he was wrong should be breaking news on cnn in its own right. I think we always said joe biden would do really well in very Diverse Communities. As david talked about california and texas i want to talk about tennessee, arkansas, north carolina, virginia and georgia later on in march, when you get to florida, these Diverse Communities are where joe biden will do well. Ive always told people the base of the Democratic Party simply put is my mama and her friends. My mama and her friends, they came out last night like nobodys business. I have to give credit to tom steyer and Bernie Sanders. Their campaigns were, on the ground, they were phenomenal. They were hitting doors and mailing and everything a campaign can do. What they cannot replace is the trust africanamericans have for someone like joe biden. To put a pin in it. When we had john lewis, john lewis is a testament to how far weve come in this country and testament to the struggle people of color had to achieve any semblance of success in this country. Were not going risk that vote for an unknown quantity, being Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, even Bernie Sanders campaigning the last four years. What africanamericans will do is rest i sured if barack obama chose you as Vice President we can probably have faith in you. I have breaking news we are getting during this course of conversation, a Campaign Aide saying Pete Buttigieg is suspending his campaign. David, whats your reaction . Wow. I am both surprised. We hadnt expected that. Thats breaking news. I think hes doing the right thing. Every vote that will go to pete and Amy Klobuchar now and i think she will be under pressure after super tuesday is a vote possibly being taken away from joe biden, their ideological soulmate. I do think this was a generous gesture on the part of Pete Buttigieg. I also think he was the most articulate eloquent person in this race. I think he is a star, remains he still has a bright star for the future. He ran a good campaign. He came a long long way in a very short time and really stood for new civil rights in this country. We have more information hes going to be returning to south bend and will be making an announcement later today. Bakari, what are your thoughts and how do you think pete is shaping the race . I look at pete as a friend. Listen, when me or stacy abrams or gillam talk where we want to be, you have to give props to someone like Pete Buttigieg, who actually made it to the heights many of us want to get to one day in this political field. I go back to the Time Magazine cover with him. For me, that was a monumental moment in this country for civil rights to see a gay man and his husband on the front of the magazine. Pete means so much to this process. Let me point out two things. Pete is trying really hard to remedy the blind spot from the Africanamerican Community. If he was going to withdraw from his campaign, there was no reason to be in georgia today. He believes in that and wants to get better at it. Last but not least, nina and liz smith on the Buttigieg Campaign, nina and liz smith are phenomenal people, i think most people will acknowledge liz smith has probably been the superstar of this campaign. We get caught up in the big names but we dont Pay Attention to the people that make it go. Ive been very hard and critical of pete. I always wanted him to do better. I love Pete Buttigieg. My hat is off to him. He is not the future of the Democratic Party, he is the right now of the Democratic Party. What do you see of the impact, going into super tuesday, this amonumennouncemen will make . Will it benefit joe biden . Every time steyer vote is a joe biden vote. Every klobuchar vote is a joe biden vote. I dont know if david is a billionaire vote, thats my goal. Every Mike Bloomberg vote is a joe biden vote. Get out of the race. What are you doing . This is a two person race and a couple of egos, joe bidenBernie Sanders race with the egoof Elizabeth Warren and Mike Bloomberg playing some role. Just as joe biden had to overcome tom steyer he has to overcome Mike Bloomberg. Pete buttigieg got out and he is light years ahead as he has he wherewithal to know he wont be president of the united states. I was just handed a transcript. No more breaking news, ana. We cant take it. I know. It used to be you could sit back and relax. Not anymore. Why . He said, that is why youre finding we are headed in a different direction than we were originally planning and looking forward to sharing with his supporters and the country where they go from here. He is planning to make his announcement at 8 30 p. M. We will be watching for that and bringing that to our viewers on cnn. David bergen and Bakari Sellers, we have to go. Got to squeeze in a quick break. Be right back. Introducing botanica. 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Last night, joe biden was quick to thank congressman James Clyburn for endorsing him in South Carolina. Does his endorsement continue to have clout outside South Carolina and if not is there someone joe biden should seek out someone on that level of a ted kennedy . Not many endorsements count, but some do. Clyburns endorsement of joe biden in the closing days of the campaign definitely had an impact. I dont think the endorsement of biden itself carries so much impact but the fact the Africanamerican Community voted in such large numbers for biden coming out of South Carolina will definitely help as Bakari Sellers was saying earlier, there are a number of southeastern states particularly voting tuesday. I think the clyburnbiden southern vote is a dynamic that is important. By the way, i think there are others that came out for biden at the last minute, like Terry Mcauliffe and jim kane in virginia. We talked very little in these political analyses of so few endorsements among colleagues. I think in the senate, pat leahy is the one endorsement he has gotten and joe biden has gotten a number of endorsements. Bernie is trying to direct a movement. Hes less interested david, were having some problems with your mic. I want to give our folks a chance to fix that. I will ask you this question. Sound is part of it and hopefully we can get the sound fixed. These candidates we have seen drop out since South Carolina, tom steyer and Pete Buttigieg. The question is, do you get behind someone . A lot of people remember that moment when john mccain got behind george bush after holding his endorsement for weeks and didnt actually use the word endorse until pressed by reporters. Why do you have difficulty using the word endorsement when you talk about president bush. Does that say that again . I endorse governor bush, i endorse governor bush, i endorse governor bush, i endorse governor bush. Awkward but better late than never, i guess. What are your thoughts, david, as far as who and when these candidates who are dropping out decide to make an endorsement . It would make a big big difference if they did it soon. Thats particularly true of Pete Buttigieg and symptom steyer. I think both of them coming out, tai could guide something. I dont think everybody that voted for buttigieg and voted for him will necessarily go to biden but get a big chunk of it. If you want to help him, do it soon. Dont do it later. Its too late in about three or four weeks. You were once an advisor of Richard Nixon and famously picked up endorsement of Wilt Chamberlain. Do celebrity endorsements particularly make an effect . Any time Wilt Chamberlain in dorsz Richard Nixon, thats news. There are odd things that go on with celebrities. The president i think got the most help from celebrities was probably john kennedy. He was surrounded by them and there was a rap pore he had with people in hollywood and really made a difference in his presidency. David gergen, thank you very much. Sorry about the mic issues. Not a problem. For staying on top of the coronavirus epidemic. Dr. Sanja gupta will let you know what you need to know as well as the new screening measures, when we come back. Were live in the cnn newsroom. This commutes been pretty rough, huh . Its great actually, ive been listening to audible. Its audiobooks, news, meditations. Gotta go hey you know, i do think its weird youve started commuting when you work from home. Ill be in my office. Download audible and start every day off right. And i. Was. Shocked. Right away, called my mom, called my sisters. Im from cameroon, congo, and. The bantu people. I had ivory coast, and ghana. Togo. I was grateful. I just felt more connected. To who i am. Greater details. Richer stories. And now with health insights. Get your dna kit at ancestry. Com. President trump announcing new screening procedures for people arriving from high risk countries when it comes to the coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases are rising here in the u. S. Rhode island is now the eighth state where a Coronavirus Infection has been detected. Health officials from Washington State continue to investigate a possible outbreak at a local nursing facility. Two people there have tested positive and more than 50 residents and staff are being tested after exhibiting symptoms. Two other infections are not linked to that facility but bring the number of coronavirus cases just in Washington State alone to eight. Across the country, there are at least 74 confirmed cases of coronavirus right now. A Washington State man has died from the virus. Joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent, dr. Sanjay gupta. A lot has happened over the weekend. Bring us up to where this stands and how widespread in the u. S. Were seeing the community spread. You bring up Washington State. There are several different patients there. Some may have connections. The man who northerly died was treated at the same hospital as a patient being treated at that Long Term Care facility. There was a Healthcare Worker there also working at that facility diagnosed. Somebody who traveled to south korea, a postal worker and two men in their 60s. Theyre trying to figure out the links and you can hear how challenging that is. Most of the time there is no link. A study came out that showed the genetic profile of the first Coronavirus Infection also in Washington State seems to have a lot of similarities to these most recent infections. That first patient, january 20th. Now, were at the beginning of march. It could mean that same virus has been circulating in the community some six weeks now in that area. We did the math on that. If you figure out how many people would have likely been affected, the number goes into the hundreds at that point. That being said, do you see it as a good sign we dont know of all those other cases . Thats exactly right. People hear there has been a lot of spread and that is alarming. The fact those patients had minimal or no symptoms and didnt show up at a clinic is a good sign and matches large data people are seeing out of china. 80 of the cases in china had no symptoms or minimal symptoms. Not to minimize it. Thats starting to ring true in the united states. Much smaller numbers still, far smaller but the overall statistics appear to be pretty similar. Lets talk about this new airport screening. How will new procedures help stem the tide of this outbreak . I thought about this a lot. I think theyre necessary, clearly, obviously at the point of embarkation, see if people have symptoms or hear about their travel history. Then, when they disembark as well, to make sure they havent developed symptoms. There are a lot of people who dont have symptoms at all or incubation period where they havent developed symptoms yet. You look at the number of people who have been screened up until february 23rd, some 46,000 people have been screened. 11 total have been sent to the hospital or clinic for further testing and only one person found to have the Coronavirus Infection. Its not a high yield situation. But they also educate patients if you do develop symptoms, selfisolation, dont be around other people. That is part of trying to contain this as well. I think it has value and by no means by itself. At some point as we see more of this spread i think the value will reduce. Someone once said an infection anywhere is an infection everywhere because of Global Travel and the nature how we move around. For now it has value but that utility may decrease even more. When it comes to testing, the u. S. Officials is acknowledging the u. S. Is behind other countries, playing catchup to test more people in more states at a much higher capacity. We heard the Vice President saying 15,000 kits are available now. The expectation, at least 50,000 more test kits will be put out in the week to come. Is that going to be enough . Its hard to say. In korea they already tested some 65,000 people and in the uk tested close to 8,000 people and have around 500. Its not clearly so far and not a situation you can play catchup after the fact. The whole point of doing surveillance is try and find who is carrying this virus and isolate them so they dont continue to spread. Nip it in the bud. Nip it in the bud. If there may be evidence of community practiced in places across the country, the testing after a while may not have as much value because we know at that point the virus is here. Testing from a medical perspective, i want to know if i have something or not. Why . So i can do something about it. There is no specific therapeutic here. Treat people the same way regardless whether you know they have coronavirus or not. From a Public Health perspective its useful information, had been useful information. But i dont know we can play catchup at this point. Why . Why were we behind . Thats a great question. Some of the first tests sent out turned out to be flawed with improper reagents in them. We were really ahead initially because the genome was sent to the cdc and the cdc was able to create a test. That happened really rapidly. Why there wasnt a further movement of these tests around the country at what we call poc point of care locations is a little unclear, especially when you look at what was happening in other countries. South korea, 65,000 tests, doing several thousand test as day. And dry testing. Yes. Critical towards trying to contain this. We may no longer be in the containment phase because of testing. This is more about slowing it down. When it comes to who is vulnerable, ive been wondering as a parent of two Young Children that go to school and pick up illnesses quickly and we talk about the elderly and the most young being the most vulnerable. What are we seeing so far in terms of who is contracting and being impacted by this . Is it the elderly and children as well . Mostly elderly and people with preexisting conditions. For some reason, theyve looked at children and found while children have become infected and some have become ill, its a much much lower percentage, and theyre not entirely sure why. Kids seem to be somewhat protected from this virus. It could be their immune systems are handling it differently and have seen it with other pathogens in the past. I have seen this with my colleagues and there is not a clear answer why this is. Looking at data out of china, tens of thousands of parents, that is a pattern theyre seeing. As far as elderly and people with preexisting conditions, think about it like this, they may have less reserve to combat this virus and more likely to get sick if they have preexisting conditions and more likely to get sick because of loss of reserve. Kids seem to be somewhat protected in this. That is interesting. Quickly, if you will, we heard the president say, people who are relatively healthy, if they get this virus, they should go on and be just fine. Do you think we have enough information to know that . When you say 80 of people will have minimal or no symptoms, i think thats true. That data seems to be holding up as we have more and more cases. I think the vast majority of people will be fine from this. I do give the perspective, we dont pay enough attention of flu and it has a fatality ratio of. 1 . You hear that, thats not me, very minimal. This is closer to 2 , 20 times higher. Flu does kill tens of thousands of people a year in the country. This could be significant if it starts to spread around the country and in certain pockets of the country we have to be on it. Looks like we have to take it very seriously. Thank you. Conspiracy theories brewing around the coronavirus. How right wing media may be contributing. Before the bell report. Investors will try to put a brutal february behind them but coronavirus will keep rattling the state department. It fell 10 from the recent high. Goldman sachs says u. S. Companies probably wont see Profit Growth this year and recession not out of the question and why theyre betting the Federal Reserve will cut Interest Rates this month and meanwhile, data from the Manufacturing Sector and jobs reports from february are due. E trade core portfolios is an easy, automated way to get invested. Well save you time by building, monitoring and managing a portfolio for you and provide all handson deck support when you need it helping you become top dog. Managing lipids like very high tryou diet. 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Recent president ial medal of freedom recipient, rush lembaugh, one of many cooking up partisan conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. Chief among them, its the news medias thought. They think this is what will bring down the president , what this is all about. Reporter acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney saying the media is using the voirs to bring down donald trump. And blaming democrats for being political. Weaponizing an Infectious Disease to bludgeon president trump. Reporter they are going back and forth with trump surrogates and praising and blaming the commander in chief. And saying they could die. For them to take a pandemic and seemingly hope it comes here and kills millions of people so they could end Donald Trumps streak of winning is a new level of sickness. Reporter junior didnt back up that wild claim. The Trump Campaign promoted it far and wide. This is not the first time the trump machine has conjured up a conspiracy narrative full of misinformation and fear mongering. This time the backdrop is a Public Health emergency. Still, irresponsible claims abound. I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. Dead right about this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks. Reporter experts have debunked it but all part of the trump strategy, fighting a virus by playing politics. It is a cult. Reporter as for the virus, it has no idea what Political Party anyone is in. It is a nonpartisan illness spreading in a partisan war. Brian stelter, cnn, new york. Breaking news, Pete Buttigieg is suspending his campaign for the white house. How he came to this decision, announcing it at 8 30 tonight. Live in the newsroom. Stay with us. narrator the edgars are moving on, their family is growing, and now they need a new car and have to trade in their current one. 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Ana, tonight aides are telling us, aides inside the Buttigieg Campaign, are telling us Pete Buttigieg made this decision today because he believed that he did not have a path forward. Looking forward to super tuesday, just two days away. Aides say he did not want to be the reason that a stronger nominee was not able to accumulate delegates on super tuesday. The campaign has been going over this math for days at a time. And even on saturday told reporters they believe they needed to compete everywhere in order to have a chance. A source told me tonight they always knew super tuesday was going to be a longshot. After what happened on saturday night in South Carolina, Pete Buttigieg not only lost that race significantly, but in the eyes of his campaign, underperformed where he was performing in public polling. They looked forward and looked at the map on super tuesday and said, essentially, they could not see a path for him to be viable in a way that would that would not harm the chances of a stronger nominee getting through this process. One of the key factors has been, and Pete Buttigieg himself has said this publicly, their goal has been to limit the delegate lead that senator sanders will be able to accumulate on super tuesday. One of the key factors, an aide told me tonight, is Pete Buttigieg did not want to be the reason that another candidate was able to cut into sanders delegate lead. That is why today he has made that decision to drop out of the race before super tuesday. And he has rerouted his Campaign Plane from planned Campaign Stops in texas tonight. They had a full schedule up until super tuesday. Hes returning to his home in south bend, indiana, to deliver this speech. For this candidate, they believed he really overperformed expectations. He narrowly won iowa, close second in new hampshire, but in South Carolina he was simply wiped out by the joe biden wave. And i think tonight, what they were looking at was a situation in which biden had the chance to be a stronger candidate if some of the other candidates, like Pete Buttigieg, in the moderate rain in particular got out of the race and cleared a bigger path for them, ana. I was looking at the South Carolina results. He got 8 of the vote in South Carolina, which was enough to finish fourth but didnt get any delegates but only 3 of the black in South Carolina voted for buttigieg eb buttigieg. That was something he struggled with throughout this campaign. That problem would have only gotten worse going into super tuesday. The super tuesday map is a mixture of, you know, progressive west coast states and southern, slightly more conservative states. But the population of nonwhite minority voters was only going to increase for him so they knew that would be an uphill climb on super tuesday. Thank you. Well check back momentarily. Pete buttigieg making this announcement, official at 8 30, he is ending his bid for president. What does this mean for the 2020 race . The best team in politics is standing by. Psoriasis. Now, theres skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90 clearer skin at 4 months after just 2 doses. Skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. Before treatment your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms such as fevers, sweats, chills, muscle aches or coughs, or if you plan to or recently received a vaccine. Nothing is everything ask your dermatologist about skyrizi. Nothing is everything hi with the worldse first invisible trailer. Invisible trailer . And its not the trailer right next to us . This guy . 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