It is monday, march 89th. We want to begin with the surging number of coronavirus cases right here in the u. S. To 535 new cases this morning. The virus is now in 34 out of the 50 states as well as the District Of Columbia which reported its first case on saturday. The virus is now at a point of rapid acceleration here in the United States despite the claim from the president s top political appointees that the virus is contained. I will still argue to you that this is contained. But it cant be air tight. It is being contained. Do you not think it is being contained . We have an epidemic under way here in the United States. Theres a large outbreak in seattle, thats the one we know about. And so we have to implement broad mitigation strategies. Now were shifting into a mitigation phase, which means were helping communities understand youre going to see more cases. So after Vice President mike pence confirmed on friday that 21 people aboard a cruise ship being held off the coast of california, the Los Angeles Times reports the ship is expected to dock today at the port of oakland with nearly all of the 3,000 passengers set to be quarantined for 14 days at military installations mean wile, ben carson refused to talk about the plan to deal with the passengers on board. The Vice President met with the ceos of the major Cruise Ship Company yesterday. They are coming up with a plan within 72 hours of that meeting. The ship is dock tomorrow. The plan will be in place by that time. But i dont want to preview the plan right now. Shouldnt you be able to do that . I think it needs to all come from a solitary source. We shouldnt have 16 people saying what the plan is, particularly when it hasnt been fully formulated. And as the coronavirus rapidly increases among that chooseship, the president had a very different idea, leave the infected passengers on board, which would help keep the number on of u. S. Coronavirus cases as low as possible. They would like to have the people come off. Id rather have the people stay, but i told them to make the final decision. I would rather because i like the numbers being where they are. I dont need to have the numbers double because of one ship. That wasnt our fault. President trump visited the cdc on friday after the white house initially said the trip had been cancel dollars. While visiting the cdc, trump insisted that anyone concerned about the virus would be able to get tested, but that seemed to contradict what Vice President mike pence said just the day before. Anybody that needs a test, theyre there. They have the test. We dont have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward. The tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a tests gets a test. As more americans need this, we want to make sure that they have access to the test, as well. Anybody that needs a test. Thats the important thing. And the tests are perfect. Like the letter was perfection. The transcription is perfect. This is not as perfect as that, but pretty good. So just a day after the president made those comments, his hhs secretary alex azar had to clarify telling reporters you may not get a test unless a doctor or Public Health official prieps a test. They got off topic by discussing the ratings of a fox news town hall he participated in. He appeared to brag about his ability to understand science and medicine. As of the time i left the plane with you, we had 240 cases. Thats at least what was on a very fine network known as fox news. How was the show last night, did it get good ratings, by the way . Oh, really . I heard it broke all ratings. I dont know. Thats what they told me. I like this stuff. My uncle was a great person. He taught at m. I. T. For like a Record Number on of years. Dr. John trump. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that i understand it. Every one of these doctors said how do you know so much about this . Maybe i have a natural ability. Its all about the uncle, i guess. Hhs secretary alex azar and steven hahn were unable to say how Many Americans had been tested for the coronavirus. The only figures they had were from the cdc and Public Health labs. Nearly 6000 people have been tested if you compare their tests with hub health tests. South korea has been testing 10,000 people per day. Can you tell us how many people have been tested in the United States . The numbers are tough. Here is what people should know about the testing. We have 75,000 tests available right now for folks by early next week, tomorrow, we should have over 2 million tests available. You cant give me even a rough number of how Many Americans have been tested . You dont know . The numbers change so rapidly. I dont know. They took it off the website how about people have been tested. This administration is in a bit of a chaotic situation the way theyre talking about the coronavirus. What does this reveal about how the Trump Administration is handling the outbreak . I think what were seeing is the adds administration trying to figure out how to handle this. The Washington Post reported last night that the president was actually just two degrees of separation away from coming into contact with the coronavirus. Thats has rattled some white house officials who had been frustrated with the president s public response that has down played the effects of the potential epidemic. But there are mixed messaging on the health aspect of this and the economic aspect. The feds Jerome Powell and the white house are at a bit of a stand still on how to handle the fallout of this economically. And then top officials said yesterday we are past the point of containment. We need to mitigate the virus. The president said look, dont be concerned, but still is continuing to hold 15,000 public person rallies and try to contain this in a political public matter. The president has expressed his concerns about the virus and his own management of it from a political stance. He doesnt want this to hurt the economy because then that would hurt his election prospects come november. So the white house is scrambling here. You heard dr. Fauchi of the cdc come out and say vulnerable populations, older people, should practice social distancing, probably not travel, stay off of cruises. The state department issued guidance, as well, saying people should not get on cruise ships right now. So you see different parts of the government responding in more aggressive measures while the president maintains this public stance that is, you know, just trying to calm the public and doesnt necessarily, i think, acknowledge the full extent of the crisis were heading into now. Trying to evoke calm, yet being misleading. Still ahead, senator mitt romney now says that hell support a republican effort to subpoena public efforts and testimony relating to joe bidens son, hunter. Plus, new issues in congress about the coronavirus. At least two lawmakers are selfquarantining. Those stories and a check off your weather when we come back. Your weather when we come back i dont add up the years. And i dont count the wrinkles. But what i do count on is boost high protein. And now, introducing new boost women. With key nutrients to help support thyroid, bone, hair and skin health. All with great taste. New, boost women. Designed just for you. Because you didnt have another dvt. Not today. 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Former Vice President joe bidens campaign may have resurrected after super tuesday, but it also renewed an urgency for the Trump Campaign to launch attacks against him. In the past, trump has questioned bidens meant ewe cuety and physical stamina, but now republicans are signaling that they will ramp up an Ongoing Investigation into the former Vice President , his son, hunter, and burisma. Mitt romney announced on friday that he would vote to subpoena former Ukrainian Embassy officials for work with brisma. The committee is set to vote on the subpoena on wednesday. Danny, what do you make of mitt romneys reversal and this motion that a Senate Investigation cannot become a spectacle and thats the guarantee that he was given that this would not be some sort of public spectacle . On the one hand, to some, mitt romney must seem incredibly indecisive. Hes not afraid of being controversial with his own republicans. What is curious here is he spent the last week saying, well, this investigation looks a little too political to me and then at the end, hes throwing in with the republicans and agreesing to a subpoena in this case. Only time will tell as the investigation plays out. How far, danny, do you think this thing is actually going to go . The question on peoples minds is will Hunter Binden be subpoenaed in this investigation if they go all the way . The investigation itself, much of the facts are already known by the american public. They came out during the impeachment investigation. If you look back just to the Hillary Clinton campaign, the emails alone arguably derailed her campaign at the last minute. This investigation but its also about the timing of jim comey talking about the closure of the investigation and all those sorts of things. It was all about timing, too, not necessarily just about the context of what also what the benghazi investigation was admittedly to drive down Hillary Clintons poll numbers. Exactly. But as we plot forward towards november of this year, this is a Senate Investigation with yeah say criminaltype implications because it is a corruption investigation at its core. And this is something that could end up being a liability and its something that the gop is going to use to their advantage as we head into the home stretch. Tim obrien said if the republicans go down this road of interviewing and trying to subpoena hunter biden, then its going to be open season on the trump kids that nowhere else more or less that its going be scorched earth on investigations being launched into their alleged drifting, if you want to call it that. Thats right. And i think thats what we can expect as we approach november is that both sides are going to start broadsiding each other. 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All i can say is that we are going to work as hard as we can to win here in michigan and i think we have the message. And on meet the press, senator sanders told chuck todd that he would have won the primaries in maine, massachusetts and minnesota if Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg had not dropped out of the race and endorsed the Vice President ahead of super tuesday. On super tuesday where we saw spikes of turnout, it was joe biden that did well. You saw spikes of turnout of africanamerican voters. We didnt see the spikes of turnout in enough places of your voters. What is your explanation . The establishment put a great deal of pressure on Pete Buttigieg, on Amy Klobuchar who ran really aggressive campaigns. I know both of them. They worked really, really hard. But right before super tuesday, these announced their withdraw. If they had not announced their withdraw, i suspect we would have won in minnesota, we would have won in maine, we would have won in massachusetts. The turnout would have been a little different. Lets take a first look at your forecast. Bill carin joins us now. Its good to get a piece of good news in the show, right . Exactly. I was just thinking, doing stuff outdoors, good weather its so interesting that you bring that up because yesterday as i was outside in new york city and it was 60 degrees, sunny, beautiful, and i thought to myself the exact same thing where at least people are outdoors and the families hiking, stuff like that. Exactly. So youre not indoors any more with all those germs around. Going winter, it would be a different story. So lets get into this forecast for today. There is some great weather. There will always be some spots with not why had ideal conditions. There it is a raining morning for you in kansas city, its headed towards st. Louis, peoria, chicago is going to have a morning rush hour, too. Eventually, some of this rain will move up into areas of the ohio valley later today and tomorrow up through the northeast. It will get weaker. If youre in the green here, that is a quarter of an inch of rain. Were going to get a little bit of rain in areas like new york, boston, philly, d. C. Tomorrow, but its not heavy. Its very light. So keep that in mind. Today, the heavier rain is areas of northern missouri and also in illinois. Today will be extremely warm for this time of the year. Were already at 50 in pittsburgh, charleston is at 46. And today is going to be 68 in new york city. Almost record highs. 69 in boston. But as we look at the week ahead forecast, as i mentioned, a little bit of this wet stuff heads to the east on wednesday.