Carolina. With super tuesday right around the corner. I believe that we will win i believe that we will win all in live from charleston, South Carolina starts right now. [ cheers and applause ] hello hey, charleston how are we doing . Great to have you here. Good evening. Its great to be here in South Carolina. We are just of course two days away from the democratic primary right here in this state. I think its safe to say its an anxietyinducing week for a lot of people. Coronavirus of course is sort of implacably making its way around the globe, which also happens to coincide with donald trump being the president. So you have those two things together. It has also been i think i worrying week for some democrats. Theyve watched as what has been i think the messiest week of the primary so far, with the most interparty warfare. And i get why people are stressed out. People want to democrats want to beat donald trump and theyre worried if democrats attack each other too much thats going t
Announced that 33 people tested positive for the virus and 8,400 californians are now being monitored. So far there have been 59 confirmed cases in the u. S. , according to the world health organization. Worldwide over 83,000 cases and over 2,800 deaths of the coronavirus have been confirmed. The impact on wall street continues as the dow and s p are on pace for their worst Weekly Performance since 2008. Down more than 10. 5 on the week. Yesterday the dow experienced its single worst day point drop in history plunging nearly 1,200 points while both the zps p 500 closed. And in strong contrast to success earlier this month. The dow closed on a record high february 12th and it only took the s p 500 six days to fall from an alltime high to correction levels marking the fastest drop of that magnitude. This morning the dow futures eae pointing to an opening loss of more than 600 points while the s p and nasdaq also point to lower openings. The effects of coronavirus is already wideranging a
Of a new cnn poll released. And the impeachment trial is going to govr what the senators can and cannot do in the proceeding that is starting tomorrow. Im wolf blitzer, and you are in the situationm room. On the eve of president trumps historic trial, they are calling on the senators to move swiftly on the impeachment articles against him. They are calling the process flimsy and a charade. And the House Democrats are responding to the white house impeachment brief saying that the president s assertion that the impeachment articles are constitutionally invalid is quote chilling and dead wrong. And democrats are angry that the resolution detailing the trial procedures has not yet been released. A spokesman for the the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is declining to comment or explain why he has not unveiled the proposal yet. Today, the house impeachment managers and president s lawyers are doing a walk through to the chamber to see the physical arrangements for what is only the third pre
Sanders . We have one of his biggest backers here to argue the case. Did you hear the president just demanded action from Chuck Schumer about exact same comments that he has made. Trump should start with himself. There is a sickness spreading in our politics. This one has a cure. What do you say. Lets get after it. Coronavirus. Lets keep you in the latest. 158 cases in the United States. Death toll, 11. 10 in Washington State. Another death in california. Worldwide, this is a scary number. Who puts the mortality rate at 3. 4 . I am not sold on any of the numbers. Why . The same reason in each instance. Inadequate testing. Start with the worldwide rating. Testing is uneven. Some are showing only the worst cases that involve compromised and elderly folks, dying is more likely there just like the flu we have here right now. South korea. Maybe they are testing a lot more. You are seeing a different range of outcomes. That is why we have been on the white house about slow walking testing. I
Ask white house officials or Administration Officials any questions at a formal briefing. As recently as yesterday, really up through today, it wasnt clear at all who was in charge of the u. S. Governments response to the coronavirus crisis. As recently as this afternoon the white house was specifically insisting that they were not going to put a socalled czar a coronavirus czar in charge of the effort the way, say, the Obama White House had done for the ebola crisis. White house was insisting as of this afternoon that Donald Trumps health and Human Services secretary, alex aczar, was doing such a great job leading the effort, thats how things would continue, no reason to bring anybody else in, we can handle this through regular order, everything is fine. That was the line from the white house as of this afternoon. It changed as of tonight when the president announced that Vice President mike pence will be the czar taking charge of the coronavirus response. The president saying tonight