Campaign for president. Issues of criminal justice have tripped up other candidates in this race. Kamala harris, as youll remember, had to defend her criminal justice background when she was still in the campaign and mayor Pete Buttigieg has struggled to explain his firing of sous bend, indianas First Black Police chief in his handling of a an unarmed black male while he was mayor. Klobuchar is facing a similar challenge to her criminal justice record. Meanwhile, less than an hour well find out where klobuchar and the rest of the democratic field stands in iowa when the Des Moines Register releases its final poll ahead of mondays caucuses. I want to introduce my guest, senior politics editor at msnbc. Charlie pearce, writer at large at esquire, and erin haines, editorial at large at the new nonprofit newsroom covering women in politics, the 19th. Thank you all for being here, panel. I want to let everybody get in on all the issues but really quickly before we do that i want to quickly
I believe were going to do well from this point on. Take nothing for granted. Want to earn every single vote in every single state. We need you. We want you. Theres place in our campaign for each of you. The World Health Organization today officially designated coronavirus as a Global Pandemic. And the markets today plunging, down more than 1300 points. The close now officially in bear market territory in the wake of that news and other pandemic headlines as the president faces the greatest test of his presidency in haphazard leadership style to date, his Top Health Official tony fauci was on capitol hill where he around with that our worst days lie ahead. Well see more cases. This is a really serious problem that we have to take seriously. I moon, people always say, well, the flu, you know the flu does this, the flu does that. The flu has mortality of 0. 1 pgt. This has the mortality of tentimes that. Those warnings from dr. Fauci amplified by the news that a doctor last week told con
Thats the International Signal thats the signal for rachel cant hear me. All right. Well, i can continue to monologue but dont cut her off like that. Lets i mean, let me and the audience kind of gradually withdraw from the rachel moment control room. Even when the sound goes down. We like seeing her and kind of saying goodbye. Even if she cant hear us. Well get it right the next time. As the United States tonight approaches 100,000 deaths from coronavirus, a new Colombia University study, which rachel was just talking about at the end of her hour, asks and answers the great what if of the coronavirus pandemic. As of tonight, the United States now has 1,581,622 confirmed cases of coronavirus and this country has suffered at least 95,003 deaths from coronavirus. Those numbers would be much, much higher if the governor of california had not been the first to shut down most activity in his state followed very quickly by governors all across the country. What if the shutdowns happened earli
Like secretary kerry who was also an immediate past secretary of state, let alone one with 28 years of experience in the u. S. Senate. So it is always exciting to have the chance to talk with, to ask questions of someone with that kind of experience. But after a day in the news like today, man, take your pick of the number of things would you like to talk to somebody like john kerry about. Hell be joining us in a moment. Even if you start with the small stuff today, today ended up, what would usually be like relative small bore news, right . That an indicted sitting congressman and his wife had to appear in federal court today in california to face a federal judge. The judge will be hearing a massive Corruption Case against that sitting congressman. Today was a hearing ahead of that trial. So weve seen members of congress indicted before in this country. Part of the reason this Duncan Hunter in court today story ends up being a Big National News story with ongoing ramifications is beca
Former senator, former democratic president ial nominee john kerry is here tonight on this show for the interview. Hes going to be here live on set with me. Im very excited about that. It is always exciting. It is always and almost intimidating privilege to have the opportunity to ask questions of somebody who has been a president ial nominee from a major party, let alone somebody like secretary kerry who was also an immediate past secretary of state, let alone one with 28 years of experience in the u. S. Senate. So it is always exciting to have the chance to talk with, to ask questions of somebody who has that kind of experience. But after a day in the news like today, man, take your pick of the number of things you would like to talk to somebody like john kerry about. Hell be joining us in a moment. Even if you start with the small stuff today, today ended up, today, what would usually be like relatively small bore news, right . That an indicted sitting congressman and his wife had t