Trump,favored donald 202 7488002. All others, the line is 202 7488003. Go ahead and start dialing now. You can also find us on social media. Send us a tweet. You can find us on facebook. Rubio trump and marco went after each other on friday. The Washington Post is calling this an allout brawl. Here is the story from this morning. They emerged friday as the principal antagonists and an all out brawl for the future of the Republican Party. An establishment opposition to the front runner candidacy began to crumble with a highprofile endorsement by Chris Christie. During what it was hectic inconsequential days of the Campaign Rubio dramatically escalated a verbal assault on the real estate mogul, granting him a con artist attending a hijack the party. He attracted a wave of endorsements. Trump responded with namecalling. The wall street journal includes these comments from both marco rubio and donald trump. A little bit on their spat. Christie embraces trump. Marco rubio can never make it.
Moving on to super tuesday and on to a rivals home turf as prominent democrats float a convention fight with his supporters as the 11th hour gets under way on this thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im receive kornacki in for brian williams. Day 1,134 of the Trump Administration. 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 1,000 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 cases are in china, the New York Times reports that 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 fed
Tweeted, cannot allow this. Following that, a. G. Bill barr said they would intervene and overrule. What happened next is being likened to a trumpera saturday night massacre. All four of the prosecutors on the case removed themselves, one resigned from the doj. According to our reporting, it is not an ace isolated incident. A person familiar with it tells nbc news the president rescinded the nomination of jessy lieu who supervised the case against stone. Lieu is also the attorney who decloind to press charges against former acting fbi director andrew mccabe. And senior justice officials also intervened to help change the sentencing recommendation for employers former National Security adviser Michael Flynn who pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. Democrats are calling for an investigation into the matter, the same democrats who last week warned that left unchecked, President Trump would be given a pass. They say hed be unbound and above the law. The past 24 hours might be our first
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