Inside the white house. President trump names north you have cdc and hhs working very closely on a very crafted carolina congressman mark meadows as his new chief of staff replacing Mick Mulvaney message that fits with the who was in that job in an acting president s theme of trying to capacity for more than 400 days. Urge calm, trying not to over the latest from the administration as the president emphasizes risks here, but also spends the weekend in south florida. That has been, you know, really plus, we are on the Campaign Based in the facts that weve trail as the candidates been seeing playing out on the ground, but the president every crisscross the country hoping time he comes out and says to fwan suppogain support from something rusisks undercutting ahead of tuesdays primary that. Shannon pettypiece, thank you contest. What were hearing from the biden and Sanders Campaigns very much for the time. I appreciate it. Today. The facts and figures are no as i just mentioned moments ago, the commissioner of the food and Drug Administration longer changing by the day but finished a press briefing at the by the hour. New york has become the latest white house along with secretary State Government to declare a state of emergency as governor azar. Nbcs monica alba was there. Andrew cuomo says the number of steven hahn, the head of the fda was the one who promised wed cases has jumped dramatically. 21 new cases so a total of 76 have a million tests sent out this weekend to states across in the state of new york right this country, to medical now. Hes going to join me in just a few minutes. Practitioners who need them. Nbc news has confirmed 383 cases what did he say about that in the United States. Today . Give us the top line update on the infected spanning this what we heard from the administration about where things stand when it comes to country from coast to coast. Testing for this virus . And of the infected at least 17 reporter a couple headlines of them have died. Really here david. The Johns Hopkins university finds that around the globe the commissioner hahn did confirm total number of cases has now that 1. 1 million tests have been sent to more than 70 places that reached far beyond the 100,000 mark. Are doing these kind of the vast majority of those cases coronavirus testing in 48 are still in china. Different states. The exceptions being maine and about 3,500 people have died in total. West virginia where theyre the number of people who were still trying to get officials up infegted and made a recovery has to speed there on that testing. But he did confirm 1. 1 million risen to more than 58,000. The head of the food and drug tests have been sent out, and they expect an additional 1 administration is updating reporters on the latest efforts to contain the virus. Million by monday with the hopes were going to let you know what of maybe getting up to the 4 comes out of that briefing as soon as it concludes. Million range by the end of the after touring the cdc in week. So that was absolutely news. They were here to give us an atlanta, the president of the United States told america to rest assured wearing a red hat, update on that testing. One of the first things open collared shirt on his way commissioner hahn said was that to south florida for the he acknowledged confusion in the weekend, the president claimed hes got it all under control. Testing. He said he didnt blame folks for being a little bit unsure of what was going on, and partially anybody right now and thats due to a lot of the yesterday, anybody that needs a different messaging weve heard test gets a test. From the president and the Vice President. As you saw yesterday, the theyre there. They have the tests. The tests are beautiful. President said anybody that anybody that these a test gets a wants a test can get a test test. I think were doing a really good job in this country at whereas Vice President mike pence was a little more measured and said that they didnt keeping it down. Weve really been very vigilant, exactly have all of the testing and weve done a tremendous job to meet the demand. So i actually pressed secretary at keeping it down. Azar on that point who also i like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprising that i joined this briefing which wasnt announced. Understand it. Every one of these doctors said when he came out, he took a lot of the questions, and i asked him why if you have these how do you know so much about this . Different kind of comments maybe i have a natural ability. Coming from the president and the Vice President , what should the president is playing golf americans believe and trust in this, and he said that the today. Hes going to have dinner president sort of misspoke when he said that anybody who wants a test can get one. He said, quote, what the near the president s florida president meant to say and said residence. Shannon, let me ask you first of all, the adjectivingsee s are t that the president was actually using sort of a shorthand. The reality here is that if a tell there as he describes the patient feels they want to be testing protocol in place and tested for this, they do have to how successful its been. Meet some criteria from a what the president said does not medical professional, and a doctor or a public official has square with what we know about to order that test in order for the efficacy of these tests and them to get it. So when the president says how theyve been rolled out across the country. Anyone can just get one, thats reporter yeah, and the numbers. We keep seeing these numbers not exactly right. You have here secretary azar jump and jump by the hour. Correcting that on the record in theres this disconnect the this briefing which oddly was entire time of the white house off camera. We have seen a lot of the officials from the white house talking about where the puck has wanting to brief reporters and been, not where the puck is going because of the time lag the American People on this, but between when someone is actually it hasnt always been upfront or tested and when they get infected and spread that as on camera today, for example, infection. You know, theres a strategy the it was off camera. White house could be taking here we pressed them on all of these of pointing this out as a very issues, david. Quick question just about the confusion surrounding all of this and the complexity of it as dire situation thats being well. Faced, so then when it doesnt you look at where steven hahn, the fda commissioner fits in the turn out to be as bad as they predict, they can take credit pantheon of officials who are for preventing a crisis from dealing with the crisis. Happening. But instead theyre doing the testing is a huge component of complete opposite and continuing that. I know the fda did a training, a to play this down, at least the president is. And a good example of that, town hall training yesterday heres what he said at a bill with laboratories around the country about implementing this signing just the other day for test, doing it accurately, did coronavirus funding. They say anything about that, the ability for the federal very well, but its an government to permit or allow or enable laboratories around the unforeseen problem. What a problem, came out of country to conduct this very nowhere, but were taking care critical test . Of it. Y reporter yes, and thats a came out of china. Dee development here. They spoke to the fact that lab i heard about it, and we made a corps and quest, these independent laboratories that good move. Are doing testing are now going we closed it down. We stopped it. The head of cdc said last night to be able to test for this virus. They werent able to point to you would have thousands of more any of the statistics of that. Problems if we didnt shut it the other major news of this down. It was a very early shut down, when asked how many cases total which is something we got right. Has the cdc tested, independent reporter so mini mean, labs, all combined, how many folks have actually been tested obviously the president painting for this, they couldnt give us those numbers. A bit of a rosy picture. Of course that is not being there doesnt seem to be a total compilation of all of this, and reflected in whats going on with the markets and investors thats what points to a lot of and company ceos and executives the confusion and is leaving a lot of folks uncertain about are continuing to raise concern what they should be doing and as you can see the calming words where the numbers actually the president s delivered over stand. As weve seen over the last few the past week have done nothing weeks, it really seems the to reverse the declines weve seen in the stock market for statistic are behind the reality one. Of whats going on here with the re are the calming words and the other words and those coronavirus. Delivered after the market my colleague, monica alba at the white house. Closed. Indeed a lot happened yesterday that briefing just concluding with the fda commissioner. After that market closed here in thank you very much for the new york, the president making his way from atlanta to west update. Turning now to the race for the white house. The democratic field has finally palm beach, and delivers an announcement. Cleared out following super hes going to make a rather tuesday. With only three candidates left, significant change to his two with a realistic shot of Management Team at the white winning the nomination, and three days to the next big house, replacing Mick Mulvaney primary contest, campaigns are heating up. With mark meadows who has made our road warriors are on the no secret of the fact hes ground. Mike memoli in st. Louis, wanted this job for a long time, missouri, with the joe biden shannon. Reporter right, and surprising to see a president campaign. Garrett haake in chicago with make such a big change in the the Bernie Sanders campaign. Mike, im going to start with middle of handling one of the you, monica alba with whom i was biggest crises of his tenure so just speaking had a piece out yesterday about how the far, but of course this is president s campaign, donald something our reporting Trumps Campaign has shifted its indicates has been in the making focus back to Vice President biden. You watch Bernie Sanders and for a while, weeks if not months biden duking it out here in the president has been floating the possibility of replacing speeches, via proxy talking about one another, trying to mulvaney with meadows and it was draw that contrast. Something that meadows even how is the Vice President , the hinted to when he said he was former Vice President responding stepping down from his to these new attacks, this new congressional seat saying he focus, this renewed focus from looked forward to some way to the white house from president serve the president. You know, i think this has a lot trump . More to do with 2020 and the reporter david, this is a very new reality for the Biden White House shifting more into campaign after appearing where reelection mode than any it looked like he was very much on the ropes. Handling of the Coronavirus Response because, of course, i want to rewind the calendar mark meadows is someone who is very politically savvy. About five weeks, send you 250 who has been a longtime adviser miles up the Mississippi River from here to muscatine, iowa. On political issues to the it was there in a rally just president and who is going to be about a week or so before the a good surrogate out there talking about the president on Iowa Caucuses where the biden tv and on the campaign trail. Campaign was struggling to fill a small room with just about 100 Shannon Pettypiece in West Palm Beach, florida, thank you chairs, and you fast forward now very much. Were going to have a lot more to the rally we just saw here in on that shakeup in the west st. Louis this afternoon where the biden team is saying they wing a little later on in this had close to 2,000 people, an hour. Chris whipple is going to join us. But first the coronavirus has caused another wild week on wall enthusiastic crowd cheering on the former Vice President. Street as shannon mentioned. This is a point as you say since fears have been growing on the Trading Floor about disruptions super tuesday where weve seen to Global Supply chains and its the Trump Campaign and the Sanders Campaign pivot to really impact on consumers here and squarely take on the joe biden abroad. That news coming despite a good jobs report. On the record, on his past more than 100,000 more jobs record on the issues. Added in february than for the biden team, theyre really talking about who is economists expected. For more on the impact on the really the candidate of market, im joined by silbile momentum . Who is the candidate who is turning out the most voters at marcellus with yahoo finance. This point . You heard the former Vice President make that point himself in the rally. The Unemployment Rate ticking lets take a listen. Down two points, a point, two points. Senator sanders likes to say help me understand why we didnt hell need a record turnout to see that kind of shannon defeat donald trump. Hes right, and were the talking about the calm hes campaign thats going to do that tried to instill here. Why do we see the opposite record turnout. Effect over the last few days . Just look at last week, voter first off, it was a blowout jobs report. We really have to say that. Turnout in the state of virginia was up 70 . We saw 273,000 jobs were added. Expectations were for 175,000. Reporter so david, this is a far exceeding that. Campaign that knows it has to when it comes to earnings, we prepare for a one on one debate saw average hourly earnings, at some point here, next that went up 3 over the past weekend, in fact, in arizona year. As you said the unemployment with Bernie Sanders. Rate went back down to 3. 5 the hes requesting to going to be d his record on issues like trade, 50year low, but that was not enough for the markets. We saw stocks go back into the the iraq war, but they think the Sanders Campaign is making a red. They tanked because investors mistake if they have democratic are really worried about the voters have the appetite for a impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the u. S. Economy. Long pro holonged primary fight when everyone is so focused on and what were seeing is that many of americas top ceos, the beating donald trump in the major corporations are saying its going to impact our november. For the tlatest on the sanders earnings, and investors are campaign, i send it up to really worried about that. Chicago and my colleague garrett when you look at the stock haake. Reporter the sanders market, the s p 500, its down campaign is preparing for thatening loer fight for the 12 since february 19th. Nomination, and so are that has wiped out 3 trillion supporters. Ive been talking to voters at this rally who say they fully in wealth. So that explains why were seeing these major upswings, expect to see Bernie Sanders take this all the way to the major down swings in the stock convention. Weve already seen those more market. I want to emphasize what youre saying there. We were at record levels a telegraphed, more district couple of weeks ago. Discussions of the biden record now were down at these lows. Trying to draw a direct contrast in a way you can do when there the Vice President is going to sit down with the executives of are two candidates left in the some of these cruise line race. Companies later today. The one thing that sanders does there is widespread concern still have going for him is the about that. What is going to allay their enthusiasm of his supporters. You talk about 2,000 there in concerns . What are they looking for, st. Louis. I think theres probably 2,000 executives, what are investors looking for as well . In this small section of this yeah, so investors really Bernie Sanders rally behind me want certainty, and right now in chicago, an enormous crowd theres tons of uncertainty, and thats why were seeing the here, a lot of young people. Stock market be so volatile and the core elements of bernie so tumultuous. Sanders support. As i said, theyre ready for so the Federal Reserve is this to be a fight. But sanders while he has been someone that they usually look going after biden has also been at fed chair Jerome Powell to telegraphing that this is not help calm markets. Going to be a war. Its going to be a campaign, and its like jay powell can you help us here . Theres a big difference. Take a listen to what he said in can you help calm markets and we actually got a surprise rate dearborn this morning. So joe biden and i have our cut. A big one. Exactly. Differences, and im going to and it was a half percentage point cut, and the Federal Reserve did boost markets a articulate them, but at the end little bit. Of the day, joe has made it we saw them rally for about 15 clear, he will support me if i win. I am making it clear i will minutes, then stocks tanked support him if he wins. Again. Together were going to go forward and defeat trump. And thats because investors started to think, wait a minute, you giesuys some of that we were possibly expecting a rate cut in march, not this week. Language may be designed to try what does the fed know about the to tamp down the animosity that impact of the coronavirus on the u. S. Economy that we dont know, developed in 2016 to make sure that does not ha