Error. Billionaire tom steyer in third place at 15 followed by Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. While biden is leading among africanamerican likely voter who is favor him over sanders, that margin is much closer now than it was in 2016 when Hillary Clinton crushed sanders among africanamerican voters. The former Vice President is expected to get a boost on wednesday when nbc news has con termed fo confirmed long time congressman clyburn will endorse him. Leading in National Polls by double digits and ahead in super tuesday states like california. That has his supporters very fired up and it has a lot of establishment democrats very concerned. Especially as sanders a democratic socialist defended some of his past comments about Fidel Castros policies on 60 minutes. We are very opposed to the nature of cuba. You know, its unfair to say everything is bad. When castro came into office, he had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing . Dissidents in prison didnt. W
We have a team on the ground following the campaigns. Shaquille brewster with the Bernie Sanders, ali vitale with Elizabeth Warren, Josh Letterman following michael bloomberg. Good to see you. Shaq, Bernie Sanders says he is ready for the pressure. What can we expect to see tonight . Reporter thats right, chris. He said he was ready for the pressure of being and scrutiny of being frontrunner. What youre seeing from his campaign is him trying to get ahead of attacks that have been telegraphed from some of the other candidates. We know he is going to be on stage, defending his big ideas, things like medicare for all, college for all, green new deal, and candidates like Vice President biden are ready to go after him, say you havent provided the cost, havent been honest about that. Senator sanders released pay fors, to pay for the big ideas. Same ideas he has talked about, same ways to pay for them, same menu of options in each of them. He put them on one list, put them on the website, sai
Democrats float a convention fight with his supporters as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 1134 of the Trump Administration, exactly 250 days to go until the 2020 president ial election. Tonight the spread of the coronavirus is taking a further toll on Global Markets while adding to the pressure on President Trump. Today the dow saw its biggest oneday point decline in history, plunging more than a thousand points. And tonight there are indications of potentially more losses to come. The number of reported virus cases worldwide, meanwhile, continues to climb. It is now at more than 82,000. And while the majority of the cases are in china, the New York Times reports the coronavirus has now been detected in at least 48 Different Countries with case numbers rising rapidly in italy, iran and south korea. Today the centers for Disease Control expanded feder
Months ago. Lets go to blake mccoy who is tracking crowds and night delays at ohare international. It doesnt look that bad behind you, blake. Reporter no, its really not, kate. Weve been watching the weather a lot because in the midwest were seeing a rainstorm but its a light kind of misty rain as opposed to thunderstorms that would create real problems for flights. So thats really good news so far. We have not seen many delays here at chicago or really throughout the country. I chalk it up to a normal travel delays. Take a look at the lines right now. Look at that. Everyone is moving. No one stopped. I dont even know how you put a wait time to this. 30 seconds. People are walking up to the security lines. Its all good news so far with air travel. If you happen to run into problem this is year traveling and need to contact your airline, experts say social media could be your friend. Because they have so many calls that come in at once, some airlines are announcing twitter a lot faster
All ultimately it wont matter because it will not need a confirmation. Attorney general, the man thats tabbed by president elect trump is jeff sessions. Subcommittee and his position on i mmigration is what best connected him with donald trump. He was the senator that came out and endorsed donald trump. Hes also u. S. Attorney and a former attorney general in the sta state. He was one of the most vocal critics of Hillary Clinton on that house benghazi committee. This is a smart man and every one i spoken about him agrees to that. He graduated first in his class, he went to harvard and law school as well. Hes a three term congressman from congress swept in as part of the Tea Party Wave a few years ago. Some of his comments viewed as a controversial at times and he said the n word and snowden deserves the death penalty. A lot of people in the Intelligence Community felt comfortable about it as far as today. Peter, the meeting is tomorrow. I think we have a graphic showing up all the meet