Stand with the deadly outbreak. But first our panel, gary kaltbaum, robert wolf, liz peek and steve moore. Lets get straight on it with blake berman at white house for more on administrations responses effort, what have we learned . Reporter just left the cabinet room, there was an hourlong meeting between President Trump and top leaders of pharmaceutical industry, the whose who of companies. Diswrons anJohnson Johnson, p, glaxosmithkline. The message was a couple fold, he wanted to listen to see where they stood in the process of delivering a vaccine or maybe a cure down the line, but president also want toed to make sure they could do so, preliminarily in up potentially in upcoming months. Were working hard to expedite the process of developing a vaccine, and moving with maximum speed too develop therapy so that we can help people recover as quickly as poke. We have a lot of recovery going on. We want to see if we can advance that. Likely tooer that therapy will be available before v
Joining us. Super tuesday, living up to its billing tonight, resetting the democratic race for president. Former Vice President joe biden making a remarkable political come back from the brink running neck and neck with vermont senator Bernie Sanders. Biden won nine states in all with an unbeaten streak across the south, including the second biggest prize tonight, texas, along with massachusetts and minnesota. Sanders won his hope stame stat vermont. And in terms of the delegate count, at this hour, biden grabbing the most delegates, sanders coming in second with warren and bloomberg far behind. The state to watch is california on the west coast, which has 416 pledged delegates and then unpledged super delegates. Eva pilgrim was at the Biden Campaign headquarters in california that was stunned and at times giddy with what they saw. Reporter joe biden taking pretty much a victory lap here tonight, and he also has alread lost tonight. The Biden Campaign thinking they did better than they
Maria we want to get a check on Global Markets this morning. A lot of action, rally in europe as well as the u. S. Right now. Take a look at european indices, cac quarante up 72 and dax up 147 points. Euro zone purchasing managing index better than expected. The spread of the coronavirus is expected to cause weakness going forward. Remember, the outlook thats materially changing right now. We continue to see the numbers today pretty strong. In asian overnight markets are mostly higher. Take a look, the weak spot was hong kong. The others fractionally moving although korea was up 2 and a quarter percent. We do have more bad Economic News out of china. The service purchasing manager index slide to go record low overnight. February car sales plummeting 80 year over year. South korea announcing stimulus package to fight coronavirus. People are saying if he has to cut 50 basis points before meeting, what does he know that we dont know. Maybe its a lot worse that we thought, as a result the
Joe biden, you saw what happened in iowa, you saw what happened in New Hampshire. Do you think its time the party moves on . Plus, were oneonone with Amy Klobuchar after taking third in New Hampshire and tom steyer pouring money into those next critical contests. And its time to stop the tweeting about the department of justice criminal cases. An extraordinary rebuke from the attorney general. In an exclusive interview with abc news. But questions about the president and political interference in the Justice Department persists. The latest fallout this morning. Pierre thomas joins our powerhouse roundtable. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning and welcome to this week. On this president s day weekend. With the first two major contests in the 2020 race behind us, all eyes are now on nevada and South Carolina. With no clear democratic frontrunner, the next two contests could prove decisive in the sprint to super tuesday. The day when the
Granted, as i said, tonight the democrats are trying to prevent that. Theyve got Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg dropping out of the race to endorse joe biden. Now, if bloomberg were smart, he would actually get out of the whole thing as well. But you cant buy senators, right . If smarts, right . Ill tell you. If you think investors are spooked about the coronavirus, i bet you aint seen nothing yet, folks. If Bernie Sanders wins and i dont think he can, but its not impossible so dont wouldnt it out. If he wins after nearly 250 years as an established country, as an established capitalist economy, as a beacon of hope, america as we know it will no longer exist. The values we have always upheld, they will no longer be american. Of course, thats the goal, right . I mean, if Bernie Sanders were to win the presidency, i dont know, what happens to us . What happens to our economy . What happens to all our wonderful innovation . Our entrepreneur, our ceos . If they are not properly incentivi