Prayer there. Yeah, heres the thing. All the accusations about politics coverage, et cetera, governments around the world are clearly taking this seriously. Saudi arabia is now barring people from taking pilgrimages to mecca and medinah. Millions of people a year do that. These are islams holiest sites. Its an historic and unprecedented move. In italy, pro soccer teams playing in front of empty stadiums as fears grow over the virus. 650 people now infected in that country. 17 people have died there. They just dont want all those people in close proximity to each other. Here in the u. S. , California Health officials are worried the coronavirus is spreading after the first case of unknown origin in the u. S. Was confirmed there in california. California has 33 confirmed cases of the virus. Governor gavin newsom says more than 8,000 people who flew into california on regular domestic flights are also being monitored for any signs of infection. Lets begin this hour with stephanie elam. She joins us live from sacramento. And that is thousands of people interacting every day with the general public. How great is the concern now in terms of the potential spread of this virus there . Right, well, when you talk to officials will tell you this is something they saw coming because they know how diseases work in general. But when you take a look at the one woman here in solano county, one county over from where i am in sacramento, they are saying theyve enacted a proclamation of local emergency so they can identify anybody, screen anybody, and then keep monitoring those people. This is the same county where the planes have been coming back from china, repatriating americans from parts that were contaminated that we know had an outbreak there. So there was some concern that perhaps this woman got it through any contact with Travis Air Force base. Officials, however, are saying thats not the case. They still do not know how this woman was able to contract coronavirus. They are working very hard to figure that out. So stephanie, were hearing a number that caught our attention today. This california monitoring now hundreds of people potentially who may have come into contact with this person just to see if its gone beyond. Is there evidence its gone beyond that small group today . Well, what we do know is that she was in her community for a few days before going to the hospital in her community in vacaville for three days and traveled by ambulance to uc davis medical center. They are saying there are dozens of people who are hospital workers who came in contact with that woman but less than 100. Some of them are quarantined. Some are isolated. Some are staying at home and selfmonitoring their symptoms. Her family is also quarantined as well because she was, obviously, in close proximity with them as well. So they are concerned about looking at these people and anyone in the community that she could have come in contact before she actually went to the hospital to get help. When she started to see that her condition was getting worse, when doctors started to see that, thats when they transferred here to the uc medical center, and thats when they found out they needed to do this test. Thats when they found out she had coronavirus. Still a lot of questions there. And not getting all the clarity, but at least notifying people who did come in contact with her. Right. Stephanie elam, thank you for being there for that reporting. A whistleblower at the department of health and Human Services says more than a dozen people who were exposed to the First Americans evacuated from wuhan, china, were exposed without the protective gear or the proper training, jim. Were joined by dr. Whalid, director of infection control. Our focus here is getting the most accurate and immediate information out to our viewers here who are concerned about this. So, first, lets start with the simplest question. Where can people get the best information about the spread of this virus in their community and what they should do about it. Thank you for having me and thank you for asking this question. The best source, really, is at this time cdc, w. H. O. , the state and local Health Departments in different states actually have websites available that one can look at and find information thats more reasonable and informative for general public. With the w. H. O. , the world health organization, warning just this morning, doctor, that this has a real potential to be a pandemic, on the precipice of it, what should every parent, every person at home right now be buying, doing and not doing . So i think keeping ourselves healthy, as healthy as possible, protected as much as possible and keeping our health care up to date as much as possible is three most important things. Making sure we are vaccinated. Making sure we keep washing our hands. And making sure we if we have diabetes and others, we are optimized. What about masks . I went to three pharmacies yesterday to try to buy masks for my family, and i couldnt find them. Do i need them . Thats again, very good question. So for general public there is no benefit to using masks. There is a lot of behind using masks in health care and thats because of our close proximity to the very ill. But for general public, Wearing Masks is not going to be beneficial. Secondarily when were taking the mask off, were contaminating our hands. Washing our hands is important. Like so many issues now, people are attempting to politicize it and say that information is coming from corners of the society, et cetera. I want you to focus on what we know. The president is saying its going to disappear. Do we know that . So, we dont know if its going to disappear or if it is not going to disappear. We have seen seasonalities in illnesses, including coronavirus, so there is a hope if you will, that it might. But we are going to be prepared if it doesnt. Dr. Waleed javad, thanks for coming in. Were going to focus on bringing you the best information we have as soon as we have it. Lets look now at the Global Economic effects of this because those are becoming very real. Im sure you at home have been watching your 401 k , this morning. U. S. Stocks on track for the worst week since the 2008 financial crise chis which is ry a remarkable comparison. Minutes from now the markets set to open and markets set to fall again. This follows the worst single day point drop in history. Point drop, not percentage drop. Lets get to christine romans. What are you looking at here for the end of the week. Struggling still. This has been a really ugly week for investors. And you still see unease around the globe. Asian markets closed the week sharply lower. European markets opened up sharply lower. You have stock intendex futures still down. So its still this same feeling in the markets. And i have to say, the magnitude of the move lower, the velocity of this move lower has really caught a lot of people by surprise. In just six days, you have a correction in the s p 500. Thats the fastest correction in Something Like 70 years. So usually it doesnt happen so quickly. Youve got basically seven months of gains for the dow wiped out in just a few days here. Some 3,200 points. So you are seeing remember when the coronavirus began as a story, you still had stocks hitting record highs. So investors are just now coming to grips that companies are saying, this is real. This matters. Its going to affect their business. Its going to affect their earnings. And thats what were seeing here. Thats the thing i want to focus on. This is not a feeling certainly feeling, sentiment factors into the markets, but markets are looking at hard data, are they not . Slowdown in the economy in china. The second largest in the world. And then slowdown in earnings for u. S. Companies as a result. And even as it looks like maybe the infection rate in china may have peaked it is now spreading around the rest of the world. Mfrkts microsoft, united airlines, the owner of british airways. The companies who have withdrawn their guidance saying, i cant even tell investors what kind of money were going to have to make this year, what clarity well have because we dont know whats going to happen. Or theyre already outright warning on hits to their sales and supply chains. This is a very globalized supply system around the world. China out of the game, even partially for a few weeks, has ripple effects that could last until christmas. Yeah, youve noticed this, poppy noticed this. 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The best people in the world to deal with this crisis work for the United States government. And the fact that its now being coordinated by the Vice President out of the white house, i happen to think is a good thing. Even though the president stepped all over the message the other day. I dont know what it is about politicians. They have to get in front of the camera and he said something the opposite of what scientists have said. It will spread. Theres no question about that. And we have the capacity to put people into the hospitals, to put them in isolation, if necessary. Many people will be isolated in their own homes. But theres no question that its going to spread. Okay. Were trying to get our tests in place. Were making sure that in the budget that were working on with the republicans were going to have the resources that these scientists need. So youre saying that despite the somewhat muddied message from the white house, in terms of actual action and resources, you say the administration is doing whats necessary . Well, with the congress. The congress is going to provide the administration with resources. Remember, the administration cut the budgets of cdc and hhs. Were not going to just restore those budgets, but were going to give them the kind of supplemental budgets they need to handle this crisis. But thats the problem. We the problem is that every time we have a crisis, we have to give them supplemental resources as opposed to building this infrastructure so its sustained over a long period of time. Okay. Lets get to that because i want to show on the screen some of the proposed cuts by this administration to the cdc. Around the world reduction in the budget. Cut to hospital preparedness program. Cut to staff as well. Now youre saying, and again, these are proposed cuts. Youre saying theres bipartisan agreement in congress to stand in the way of those cuts in effect and get the money where it needs to be . Theres bipartisan agreement were not going to accept those cuts, and were going to put supplemental money in to handle the crisis. Look, weve got to get over these criticisms and pull together because this crisis requires both democrats and republicans to stand together and to fund our governments. And i mean state and local governments appropriately. You heard the president , and you referenced them to some degree, just quickly here, that the president will in his words, disappear, putting a, you might say rosy, a rosy spin on the situation now. Is that a helpful message in the midst of the response . The problem is, its not accurate. We have to have a balanced message, and its got to be carefully accord nated. The administration is just starting to do that. Im a big fan of the deputy that they just appointed, debora deborah birx. Shes been running the pepfar program for three previous administrations. Shes first rate. Theyll pull things together. I think we have to be supportive of any administration that has to deal with anything this large. And we can criticize their budgets, but, frankly, we just have to fix it. Yeah, and pepfar, enormous effect, u. S. Investment abroad that saved folks credit it for saving millions of lives. I want to get on the 2020 race. Something you know well given your district in florida here. You are familiar with Bernie Sanders comments praising fidel castro. You called on sanders to, quote, talk to your constituents before praising a murderous tyrant. Do comments like that from sanders threaten democrats ability to win florida in 2020 . Absolutely. Its not only his comments on the castro regime, but also on maduro in venezuela. He seems totally insensitive. Its not just about politics. Its about the accuracy of statements, about murderous dictators and while he tried to offset it a little bit, it puts it not only puts us at risk, but it puts the whole country at risk when we have a president ial candidate that has good things to say about me murderous dictators. Ive been to cuba a few times. Spoken to those who challenged the government. Doesnt end well for them. Donna shalala, great to have you on the program. Great voice to hear from. Its interesting. You and i have spoken to democratic lawmakers over the last several days. A consistent message there saying, weve got to Work Together as a country, as parties, and a deliberate effort, it seems, not to take shots at the president. Its notable. Which is different than a number of the democrats running for president taking shots at him and the administrations efforts on this and well get into it more later. But the importance between proposed budget cuts to nih and cdc versus an actuality of what happened or didnt happen is also important in all of this. Lets dig deeper on the 2020 race for the white house. Democrats making their final push before their next critical test in South Carolina primary. Lets bring in joseph. You were there at Bernie Sanders rally in spartanburg. Tell me about the vibe there because he just he had a disastrous performance in the primary there when he was running against hillary clinton. And it just seems so different this time. Yeah, his crowd last night was more than 1900 people. It was packed. They were loud. They were cheering for him all night long when he was speaking for about 45 minutes. It was the upstate part of South Carolina. Its a place that is a little more white, so its a part of the state that may be more supportive of him. And also near North Carolina which votes on super tuesday. Sure. South carolina is important. Well get a lot of the information out of how voters go tomorrow, particularly on joe bidens candidacy, but very soon after, youll have super tuesday. And joe biden, despite his strength in South Carolina, has something of an interesting strategy because he is not invested much in those super tuesday states. Kind of relying on a Strong Performance in South Carolina to lift, you know, lift the tide, the biden tide on the super tuesday states. Is that a workable strategy . Well, i dont know if id call it a strategy as much as a necessity. The reality is he doesnt have the money to invest in those big super tuesday states like california and texas where it takes a heck of a lot of resources to be able to buy air time on television, radio. So hes got to have a big bounce out of South Carolina in order to propel him into the super tuesday states. But those are only a few days away. Those are on tuesday. And South Carolina is on saturday. So the question is whether even if biden does really well, will it be enough to sort of break through and give him momentum in just a few days time. And joseph, keith made the point earlier and just to build on what he said about why its so important for joe bidens camp that he doesnt only win but that he wins big time, right . And we heard clyburn congressman clyburn say that to wolf blitzer as well. He wants to see not just a 10 or 11point win but a 15 or 16point win to propel him, right . Is it not just a win joe biden needs . I think he may they may be looking for a result similar to what Bernie Sanders got in nevada because with some of those super tuesday states, there are many Southern States in those that will be voting. But theres also california and texas where Bernie Sanders is looking to do well which also has a lot more delegates. Keith, of course, as you know, there are members of the Democratic Party, Party Leadership who are concerned about sanders as the frontrunner. The New York Times reported earlier this week that they some at least, are willing to risk interparty damage to stop a sanders nomination. I have to say, rings familiar back to 2016, right, and that caused deep divisions within the party. Is this a smart response . No, i dont think its a smart response. The Democratic Party should let the process unfold. Its not the time to be talking about stopping Bernie Sanders or stopping any candidate. But letting the Voters Decide who they want to pick to be their nominee. I dont think its a good idea for the former president or for any other person in the party, this House Speaker or the unpledged delegates to try to put their fingers on the scale while we still have a process ongoing. The question is, why panic right now . Theres an orderly process. Weve only had three states that have voted right now. We havent even had more than weve only had 4 of the delegates decided. Less than 4 of the delegates decided. 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We did see some relief in the early to premarket trading when an idea was floated of some sort of global coordinated Central Bank Action that could happen over the weekend. I. E. , a rate cut. But that relief looks like its fizzled out as the dow is still beginning several hundred points lower. Heads are still spinning about that 1200point drop on the dow, not just because of the amount of points it dropped but at the speed which it took for the dow to go from a record high to a correction yesterday. It took just ten trading sessions. If you are keeping score, the dow has lost a whopping 3,200 points this week. For all the major averages, 3. 4 trillion of stock market value has literally been wiped out. One trader puts it this way saying there just doesnt seem to be a lot of confidence that the u. S. Has any has any control or is prepared for the coronavirus, even if Officials Say they are prepared. Thats a big question there. Investors at least not convinced that the government is ready for this. Alison kosik at the Stock Exchange, thanks very much. Lets talk about all of this with cnn economics commentator kevin hasset, formerly the ceremony of the white House Counsel of economic advisers for president trump. Kevin, so good to have you. You read Goldman Sachs note on wednesday. They are saying a more severe pandemic could wells lead to a recession. I think were right at that moment where we just dont know. One thing i did last night as i was getting ready to be on the show is a charted the equity market during sars in 20022003 and the equity markets now. Were following almost exactly the same path. And the bad news is that sars ended up down about twice as far as we are right now. Before it was clear that we had a cure, or that we could contain it. And then once that became clear, the market took all of that space back. So go out a couple hundred days from the discovery of sars and markets were up from where we learned it existed. So do we get ahead of this one, too . If so, there will be a happy end here and clapping again. We saw them opening with clapping but i dont think there will be any other clapping today. Thats only the opening bell. This is not clapping at the market. Its important to put into context. There have been 22 market corrections since november of 74. Only four have turned into bear markets. Is this going to be a bear market . It depends on whether the coronavirus is contained. The kind of things were hearing are giving us negative news about that. People are getting it a second time. Were seeing new cases spread all over the place. And, you know, even places like iran where its pretty warm and so if basically people are able to spread it outside of the flu season, this has legs into the summer and you are absolutely looking at a recession globally. I want you to listen to what your good friend Peter Navarro told us when he was on last week. A chief economist now at the white house. This was his answer when i asked him about apple saying theyll miss earnings projections because of this. The good news about apple is that its kind of its one of the most heavily dependent companies on china for its production and some of its growth. So we dont see apple as the norm. Since then, you have the warnings on earnings from microsoft, cocacola, alcoa, marriott, you name it. Is this a oneoff . So again, think about it this way. Airline stocks are going to have a lot of trouble. Oil prices are way down because theres depressed Economic Activity and there will be less drilling and mining. I said on your show the last time that im looking at taking about a percent off of the First Quarter. Right now gdp now has the First Quarter, thank goodness it started strong before all this came out. Almost at 3 . And so i think were still looking at even with all the bad news, the First Quarter thats not in recession territory. If a recession starts, its got to start in the second quarter. Kevin, look, everything youve said about what were seeing with the markets is all having to do with coronavirus. When the president was asked about it, he pointed at the democrats and their performance on the debate stage. Heres one of those moments. Are Financial Markets overreacting here . I think the Financial Markets are very upset when they look at the democrat candidates standing on that stage making fools out of themselves. Is this a reaction to the democratic debate . You know, the history of this is something i studied. You tend to get big swings in equity markets as the president ial election gets closer. But the market fell 2,000 points before the debate. No, i am responding, but it will be normal my point is just that, lets just say, i stipulate that this is a coronavirus moment that if we have a typical equity market response to the presence of an election, just the uncertainty of it, you are looking at another ten points down from here. And so its so the election effect is very common going back to the civil war. You see the everybody sort of takes risk off as an election approaches. I dont think weve seen that yet, but the president is right its going to have to this year. Youre not saying its because of how the democrats debated. Lets move on from there. Goldman sachs note and warning this week also said if the coronavirus epidemic materially affects u. S. Economic growth, which youre saying it will, at least a point off this quarter, it may increase the likelihood of a Democratic Victory in the 2020 election. Do you think this could hurt the president s reelection chances . Im not a political expert. The one thing i was thinking about, though, just as an economist, is that what were seeing in markets is flight to safety. And the flight to safety is going away from equities and loading up on bonds and so on. And i just wonder if flight to safety doesnt have an impact on the democratic primaries. Im not exactly sure who the safest one is, but, maybe its joe biden because he was there for so long and so on. But i would expect if these are troubled times and they have a political effect, it will reduce the risk preferences of people out there who are maybe used to taking a big swing for this guy but theyll are you saying a joe biden presidency is less risky than a Trump Presidency . Im not even comparing the two. Im talking about the current democratic primary. So i bet you the flight to safety is one of the stories you guys talk about after you watch the election in the next week. You have bond yields, treasury yields at 50year lows. Quickly, 30 seconds, you saw kevin morris, the former fed board member write in the journal this week that we need a coordinated effort among Central Banks to get in front of this. Is that what we need to terms of coordinated global rate cuts . I disagree with my Hoover Institute colleague. Whats happening here is weve had a negative supply shock. And when you have a negative supply shock, that reduces output but it increases inflation because basically the little bit of stuff thats still being made has to be sold at a higher price. Against that backdrop, most think the fed needs to satly sit there and watch for a while. Kevin hassett, always good to have you. Thanks. Tensions are escalating in syria after governmentbacked forces killed dozens of soldiers. Turkey is a nato ally of the u. S. Russia involved here as well. Well have more on that attack, what it means, coming up. Theres my career,. My cause,. My choir. Im a work in progress. So much goes. Into who i am. 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What you have here is russia, you know, i dont want to say at war, but exchanging deadly fire with a nato ally of the u. S. Which, by treaty of the u. S. Is committed to defend. Is this escalating . Well, you know, jim, overnight this did look like a very dangerous situation where we were basically looking at a situation where you would have had a military confrontation between the russians and turkey. What we understand happened, they say their troops inside Idlib Province came under aerial attack. Air strikes carried out by the Syrian Regime. But what the minister of defense is saying here is that they notified the russians. The russians, the backers of the Syrian Regime, they had notified them of the position of these Turkish Forces. And as this air strike was taking place, the initial air strike, they sent warnings to the russians. They say the attack did not stop. And that it continued even as ambulances were arriving at the scene. Now the russians, for their part, are denying they knew that Turkish Forces were in that position. And theyre also claiming that this was the Syrian Regime basically responding because Turkish Forces were in the area with what they call terrorist groups. Thats the blanket term they use for the opposition groups. Now turkey says it has responded, that it carried out multiple air strikes and drone strikes on different regime targets inside syria. As you mention, weve seen the movement of these two war ships by the russians to the region. And it really looked like a very dangerous situation with this escalation. In the past few hours, jim, weve heard from the kremlin. Weve heard from the turkish presidency saying that both president s erdogan and Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone and that they have agreed to meet facetoface in the near future. Its unclear when. As you mentioned, theres a deadline that turkey set that ultimatum for tomorrow, the end of the month for the Syrian Forces to withdraw from positions theyve advanced to in Idlib Province. So while this might seem like a possible deescalation here, that this is where its headed, it still does not resolve the key issue of what happens to Idlib Province and the situation there. 33 dead turkish soldiers. And we know russia backs that Syrian Regime. Huge development. Jomana, thank you. If you listen to esper, the defense secretary this week, it was clear theres no appetite for reengaging there. From the u. S. Perspective, absolutely. And a lot of people fleeing that violence. A story well stay on top of. Here at home, new reports the Democratic Leaders are willing to risk damage to their own party. Why . To stop Bernie Sanders from becoming the nominee. Well have reaction from his Deputy Campaign manager next. All right. And to the uk. 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I dont want to get too caught up in polls. If you look at them across the board, they show a Strong Performance for joe biden, perhaps a strong victory over Bernie Sanders. I wonder from the campaigns perspective, is this concerning for you about sanders ability to appeal to africanamerican voters who make up a bigger proportion there in the states that voted so far . No, we think were going to do just fine here in South Carolina. We had some great turnouts, some great events in myrtle beach, in charleston, thousands of people out to see Bernie Sanders. We think those people will come out to vote. We think well get our coalition, which is a multiethnic, Multiracial Coalition of working class americans. Well come out and vote here in South Carolina like they did in other states, jim. Would a distant second, would you consider that a loss for sanders . Look, ill leave the punditry to the pundits. I think we will fight for every vote, well fight for every state, well fight for every delegate. We are taking a message to voters that says we need the working class in this country, we need an agenda that works for the working class of this country and we think that will be a successful message here in South Carolina. You undoubtedly heard the reporting, New York Times, cnns reporting as well, that 93 Democratic Party officials are willing to have a brokered convention if sanders does not receive the majority of delegates by convention time. I wonder what your response is to that. Do you see the party or some the party as working against you . Look, Bernie Sanders consistently polls as the democrat with the highest Favorability Ratings in this race. Bernie sanders is the candidate who can win wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. Yesterday or this week there was a poll from ulenburg that showed him as the contender in this race to win pennsylvania. Were confident that Bernie Sanders is the best candidate to beat donald trump and the Democratic Party will see that. Lets talk about florida. As you know, thats crucial, proven decisive in fact in many recent president ial elections. We had Donna Shalala on a short time ago, democratic congresswoman from florida, who took particular issue with Bernie Sanders doubling down on the praise that hes had for fidel castro, she describes him as a brutal dictator. I asked her a question a few moments ago, i want to play her answer and get your response. Have a listen. Sure. It is not only his comments on the castro regime, but also maduro in venezuela, he seems insensitive. It is not just about politics, not only puts us at risk, but it puts the whole country at risk when we have a president ial candidate that has good things to say about murderous dictators. I asked her directly if it makes it less likely that democrats would win florida in november. And her answer to that was absolutely. What is your response . Look, there is no candidate in this race. Im very confident in saying this. No candidate that stood up against authoritarians more than Bernie Sanders. Hes always condemned authoritarianism, in cuba, in saudi arabia, where washington, d. C. Was about a year behind Bernie Sanders in condemning mbs. Why not condemn this can win florida and all over the country. It is a simple answer to a simple question, why not condemn this dictator and talk about literacy programs when you and i know what fidel castro he has condemned he has absolutely condemned the authoritarianism of fidel castro. Nobody wouldnt, jim, but he has a consistent track record unlike others in this race who are profiting from xi in china. Bernie sanders has condemned authoritarianism all around the world. Heres the thing, as you know, donald trump has been criticized, often rightfully so by democrats and others, for prai praising Vladimir Putin or perhaps separating qualities he likes in a putin or a xi or an erdogan in turkey from their, you know, horrible record on human rights. Why does it make sense to say, okay, here is a brutal dictator, by the way, he helps kids read and im not going to back away from that. Why not just a definitive, i dont support this guy . Well, Bernie Sanders has said he doesnt support authoritarianism around the world. Bernie sanders delivered speeches about how he does not support authoritarianism around the world, how hes for democracy. Bernie sanders is the only candidate who condemned authoritarianism all over the world. I really do think this is a nonissue, brought up by people who want to find something to condemn, but the fact is, because Bernie Sanders is the most antiauthoritarian candidate in this race. 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