very good monday morning to you. i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm poppy harlow. another big week, hours away from the first primary votes of the 2020 race, a fight for every single vote now in new hampshire. the candidates are now attacking each other in ways we have not seen since they announced their candidacies on the air, in their rallies, and it is easy to see why. >> week after iowa updated vote numbers show that the race ended in a virtual tie with pete

buttigieg maintaining his narrow lead on sanders, bigger lead when it is all hashed out in delegate counting. joining us from new hampshire with the latest on the race, jessica dean. so, joe biden, he's been lowering expectations for new hampshire. but at the same time turning up criticism on his rivals. you would expect that. it is a battle now for the democratic nomination. >> reporter: yeah, i think that's to be very expected at this point, jim and poppy. we certainly saw that disappointing placing in iowa. he and the campaign have been lowering expectations into new hampshire. they're very anxious to get to nevada, south carolina, where there is more diversity within the democratic electorate there. they keep pointing to their very strong support among african-american voters, hispanic voters. they're ready to have more diversity within the electorate. the fact of the matter is we're here in new hampshire and he's got to get through this first in order to get to those next two

states. and we are here, he's going to have several events throughout the day, trying to connect with voters. it has been interesting to see him really sharpen his tone. we saw over the weekend a real change in him directly attacking pete buttigieg, for example, his campaign releasing a video comparing their experience, his as vice president, and in the senate and pete buttigieg's of course as mayor of south bend and really knocking that experience, they made this argument all along there is not time for on the job training when you assume the presidency and that joe biden is positioned to take that mantle the day he's sworn into office. but it was very interesting to see that over the weekend and yesterday we were with him, guys, he really pulled back. and went back to issues, started talking about unity. taking a lot of questions and answers -- and giving answers to people within the crowd, less attacks more on issues, more about coming together and beating donald trump in 2020.

and if you zoom out to look at the broader race here in new hampshire, you see bernie sanders in common with joe biden also attacking pete buttigieg, but more about his campaign finance and how he's going about raising money, which is the more traditional way, versus the way bernie sanders is going about raising money, which, of course, more grassroots funding, smaller donations, online fund-raising. we also have seen elizabeth warren staying above the fray in all of this. she's stuck to her stump speech throughout all of this. we have seen her with lots of events over the weekend and clomomentum, amy clio shar hekl new hampshire. we raised three raised $3 million since the debate. it will be interesting to see where she plays into all of this. joe biden and his campaign thought they would be the clear alternative and now we see pete

buttigieg, amy klobuchar with all this momentum. >> we'll see. it is intereearly. do i get credit for klomomentum? thank you, jessica. appreciate it. >> made me laugh. joining us now is lauren, we'll talk about your podcast in a moment, but let's begin with klomomentum, jim's favorite word. you spent a lot of time with buttigieg and his team. but could amy klobuchar have an upside surprise here? >> that will certainly be a huge surprise, right? she's polling very well today. she's in the boston globe suffolk poll, i believe in third. and after that is biden and warren tied. that's a pretty significant move. undecided voters are always a big question here in new hampshire. and there are certainly a lot of people who say, yeah, i think i

know who i'm voting for but i could change my mind right before election day. and you dig deeper into the polls, that's what you find. and i talked to a lot of voters, i'm with buttigieg most often during the campaign an he tai tk to a lot of voters who are between the two of them. they're looking for a moderate candidate, i heard a guy who said he's between, are you ready for this, warren, sanders, klobuchar and buttigieg, quite a decision to make. but he said the reason why he looks at klobuchar and buttigieg is he said that's the pragmatic part of his brain, that's the part that thinks that, you know, they might be able to grab other people who may be voting for donald trump and changed their mind or looking for an alternative and are independent. all i will say is someone who usually covers the return party here, we never know how much of the republican party has decided they're not for donald trump. trump is very popular here among new hampshire republicans. why he's coming tonight. he really wants to win new

hampshire. so i'm curious to see how well this bump she's seeing now translates into something on election day. >> so much of it is about expectations for each of the candidates. you have expectations now for some, if you don't meet those and others have lowered expectations. i wonder on joe biden, his position there as you've been speaking to voters there, because, of course, one of his biggest selling points was his -- i don't want to say inevitability but his electability. >> john lynch backed him, he's touring the state, he's got people behind him, but i talked to what i mostly hear from undecided voters is this same thing you talked about a lot on your show, they love him, they used to love him, they just think he's tired. one woman said to me, i want him to take a rest. that was a direct quote from a

woman undecided who i met at a buttigieg rally. that's a tough criticism for people who are looking for somebody who is going to engage in a big battle. electability, it sounds cliche, but every voter i talked to, they say i'm looking for someone who can beat donald trump of every voter looking at the democratic field, but the electability is why we're seeing so much action behind sanders and buttigieg. you hear a lot about new hampshire voters are independent, they don't necessarily take cues from iowa. i would say i think in this election where electability is a big question, i talked to a lot of voters and this is anecdotal, but iowa did give them some cues. they're looking for someone who can win and even though those results came out slowly and were like sort of official last night, that was more of a result than they have seen thus far. >> that's an historical data, biden, good finishes in iowa often translate to better finishes in new hampshire. lauren, thank you very much.

our next guest endorsed vice president joe biden and stumping for him. democratic mayor of atlanta, keshia lance bottom. so respond to the argument that joe biden's been weakened by iowa. and that that is telling here. what is your response to that? >> there is great line from andre 3,000 and it is the south has something to say. what i will say to that is that when you get to the south and you look at super tuesday and you look at south carolina, it is more of -- will be more representative of who we are as a party. and i think you go back to bill clinton's first election, he won one out of the 11 first states. the end of the day, what the vice president said all along this is a delegate count. what we need is someone who will appeal to a wide array of people. we need people to turn out. i was on the ground in iowa, and

i didn't see a diverse turnout in iowa. i didn't see a large turnout in iowa. and while these contests are important, all states are important. what's most important is how we will turn out in november. and if we don't turn out, then we will see a repeat of 2016 and that is the thing that concerns me most of all. for the first time i am hearing people say that they are concerned that donald trump will win again. and i can tell you, and it is not rocket science, if we don't turn out as democrats, he will win again. four more years. >> mayor, you bring up the importance of this, i love that you're quoting andre 3,000 on this program. but in all seriousness, you dig into a part of the challenge that the vice president had, and, look, he has a ton of support from the african-american community, that's obvious. that's another reason why south

carolina is so important. there is more talk in the last few days about his 96 vote on welfare reform. and the fact that senator sanders can contrast that. did he oppose it when he was in the house do y. do you have any concerns about that vote and if he still stands by that? >> i think when you have had the amount of experience as the vice president has, obviously there will be things that will come up for discussion, but i think in the same way, every single candidate will have votes that they will have to explain. but at the end of the day, it is about looking at the totality of his record. and the totality of his record has been that he has been a champion of the working class in america, he's been a champion for african-americans in this country. he's had eight years of progressive proven leadership, standing alongside president obama. so while there may be votes that we may not always agree with, when i look at the totality of

his record, i still know that he's the best person to beat donald trump and it is the reason donald trump focused on him. no better case made for joe biden than the case made by donald trump. he polls every single day, he knows who is the toughest person to go up against in november. and that remains joe biden. >> we have seen more attacks from joe biden. somewhat surprising his pitch and his personality for many years has been one, i'll take the high road here. i want to play a clip from a biden campaign ad as he takes aim in particular at mayor pete buttigieg and get your reaction. >> both vice president biden and former mayor buttigieg have taken on tough fights. under threat of a nuclear iran, joe biden helped to negotiate the iran deal. and under threat of disappearing pets, buttigieg negotiated lighter licensing regulations on pet chip scanners.

>> that's quite a zing. are we going to see more from that from the former vice president going forward and do you think that's in his nature? >> i think what you will see from the vice president is a response. and i don't see it as an attack. i see it as a response. when you have other candidates who are questioning his record and bringing that up as a weakness, and i think he has to respond and continue to make the case as to why he has experience. well, we look at where we are on the real stage, we he need a leader who can come in on day one and stabilize his country and help us stabilize our standing in the world. that remains joe biden. he's had a number of years of experience and i count that as a plus. and so i think that you will continue to see a response to attacks on the vice president, and i think that it is appropriate. >> keshia lance bottoms, we appreciate you joining us on the show this morning. >> thank you for having me. still to come, the

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135 passengers on board a quarantined cruise ship off the coast of japan are now confirmed to have the coronavirus. and we now know that at least 24 of them are american. the number of cases on that ship is rising. so is the global death toll from the virus. it is now more deadly than the sars outbreak in 2003. joining us now dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, so good to have you on this morning. we had lori garrett on in the last hour, talking about this getting out of control. i just wonder, from your perch and given your experience here, how concerned are you about this

outbreak getting out of control or do governments have a handle on it? >> well, certainly the potential for this being much more large spread is there. it would be unrealistic to deny that. thus far in this country, we have 12 cases. ten of them imported cases from wuhan. and two were close contacts, spouses of two of those individuals. so right now things are under control and okay here. but that could change. and it could change because unless china gets their really rather difficult situation under control, and not cede other countries, then it is going to be difficult to continue to keep cases out of the country. so right now the risk -- the risk is relatively low for us. but that could change pretty quickly and that's the reason why we're taking it really very seriously. >> dr. fauci, can you help us

understand where coronavirus ranks when compared to sars, ebo ebola, zika in terms of transmission and available treatment options? >> well, first of all, this virus, coronavirus, is a brand-new virus. sars was new in 2002. did not spread very easily, 8,000 cases, about 775 deaths with a mortality of about 9% to 10%. this particular virus has a much, much greater capability of spreading widely. so it is much easier to transmit. the mortality is about 2%. so it is less than sars, but it is clearly much more than a typical seasonal flu. so it is spreading like the flu, but it clearly is much more dangerous than the flu. but less dangerous than sars regarding mortality. >> one big difference between now and the sars outbreak is just a big jump in global air

travel. it has doubled 1.4 billion now compared to less than 700 million back in the early 2000s there. tell us what a difference that makes and does that explain this massive global response? >> well, i think you're right on the money there, jim. because travel out of a region where you have an epicenter, like in wuhan, in china, and now essentially all of china, travel out of there is the way cases are ceded throughout the world. that was one of the reasons why we and other countries have imposed travel restrictions. but travel restrictions alone as i'm sure lori garrett said, once you get a diffuse outbreakthroughout the world, you're not going to be able to control it by travel restrictions. you're going to have to do what we call mitigation or dampen the effect within a country. clearly we're not there yet.

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this morning, sources are telling cnn before president trump suddenly fired impeachment witnesses lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and eu ambassador gordon sondland, trump appointee, both men were quietly planning their own exits. but a person familiar with the president's thinking says that he deliberately did not want them to go quietly. >> now, senate minority leader chuck schumer wants answers in the wake of their firings, very public firings on friday. asking the department of defense, acting inspector general to investigate whether this was retaliation. tara setmire is here. thank you for being here. tara, let's just get to the advice of a number of republican senators to the president to not do this. susan collins, senator tillis, ron johnson of wisconsin, but to

the why, right? it is not that they thought it was a bad idea, it was that the optics would be bad. okay. so what does that tell you and what does it not tell us? >> well, several of those senators are also up for re-election and are in tough re-election campaigns and they recognize that it is time for them to move on, you know, no one wants to wallow in the impeachment proceedings because the more that we talk about impeachment, the more people are reminded of the misconduct bit president. they wanted him to move on. and exacting political retribution on people who honored lawful subpoenas and told the truth under oath is problematic. majority of the american people wanted to see witnesses in the trial, including republicans, actually, which the senators defied. and they don't want people to constantly -- they don't want that to be front of mind for voters as they move forward as the president doesn't seem to be able to let it go. and his twitter storm over the

weekend, going after other senators making fun of them, calling them names, and still harboring on this is definitely not the strategy that the republicans want. they wanted to focus on the economy and the accomplishments not throwing temper tantrums reminding people of why he was peached in the first place. >> kevin sheridan, isn't the fact that that ship sailed a thousand years ago, right, with this president? remember there were -- going back to 2016, if he's elected, he'll become presidential. this is now baked in, not just to the president's strategy, but the party's strategy. in lockstep with the president, but the way it is personalized, right? if you disagree with him, i don't have to tell you given that you work with mitt romney, you disagree with him, he's going to come after you. >> i think we can set aside the mean tweets. i think both mitt romney and joe manchin on the other side can handle, you know what his twitter feed is going to read because we have seen it now for three years and we know and this

is nothing new. it is really about the voters. the ship has sailed on a lot of things including the fact that the republican party is largely unified around this president. and it is at 95% number approving of him, so anybody that takes a position against the president and many of them do regularly needs to make their case to their voters and they do a pretty good job of it. i don't see any big ramifications for a mitt romney in utah or maybe some within the party are going to speak out against him. but ultimately this will move on, very soon. we'll be on to the next thing within days. >> listen to this, tara, from matt sclapp talking about mitt romney, not welcome, he says, at cpac and said this in the wake of romney voting to convict the president. >> we won't credential him as a conservative. i suppose if he wants to come as a nonconservative, and debate an

issue with it, maybe in the future we would have him come. this year i would be afraid for his physical safety, people are so mad at him. >> i mean, what does it say about the country, some sects of the party, whatever he's talking about, that he be concerned about his physical safety going to cpac? >> it is outrageous. absolutely outrageous that this is what the party has become. and i'm someone who used to go to cpac every year as a conservative. it was like the oscars for us. we would all get together, a great confab. it turned into a clown show. and matt sclapp saying an honorable senator like mitt romney, eight short years ago, not even, yeah, eight years ago, our nominee for president, who has lived a life of integrity and character is not welcome because he might be physically in danger is outrageous.

they're just okay with this? i know that -- i understand that, because i feel i might not be safe if i were to go to the convention this year. i've been to six republican conventions. and the threats that i've gotten, the level of vitriol i've received threatening my personal safety, the fbi was involved for goodness sakes, i question whether i would be safe. i think there is some truth to what he said. but there is a sad state of affairs here if that is the reality and that the republicans who are the moral majority and used to talk about character and integrity are talking about the possibility of physical threats to a sitting senator because he stood on principle and took his oath before god and was -- stayed true to that. country over party, that he may not be safe. what does that say about them? >> just to push back, i agree with you that probably the vindman story or the firing, that might be gone in a couple of days, but the nature of the attacks, and how across the board they are, jim mattis

leaves, celebrated general mad dog mattis when president trump and he attacks him too. no one, if you're not on board, you're a target. right? who is standing up in the party to say this ain't right? >> people in the party do regularly stand up an say something. it is -- the problem i guess if your position is that he needs to stop this. >> who? >> who? >> senators are constantly saying this. >> i've heard a lot of inappropriate, but -- >> name one besides mitt romney. >> mitch mcconnell. a lot of senators said when he tweets something -- >> mitch mcconnell challenges the president regularly? mitch mcconnell? >> the problem i think you're not acknowledging here is that the republican voters have decided that they are with the president on most of these issues and they don't have the same problem with his level of vitriol that many in the media do, many republicans do, i'm not

making a value judgment either way on it. i'm saying the republican voters and the republican party is at an all time high now, and the last 15 years, so in approval ratings, you know, this is just the reality that all the senators are facing. they're looking back at their states, seeing their voters, they're listening to what they're saying to them and not buying into the same narrative that the entire media is buying into right now. and that's just a reality, that's just a fact, they have to make their case to their own voters. >> yeah. so -- >> it is not a narrative -- >> so the leaders of party have to fall victim to mob mentality instead of standing up and saying we welcome differences of opinion. that's what you're saying. >> i'm not defending any kind of romney statements at all. >> what are the leaders of party to stand up and say this is not acceptable, people of a difference of opinion within party are possibly physically unsafe because they differed

with the president and stood on principle and the constitution. that to me is where we're running into a huge problem with the republican party and it will be the death of party if people don't stand up and call this out. >> we'll have you both back, guys, we got a lot of news to get in. but it is important. i hear you. thank you. >> thank you. from mexico will pay for it now to american taxpayers will pay for it, we're talking about the wall and the new budget plan call for $2 billion in taxpayer money for that. we'll discuss giant discrepancies and others with the president's former top economic adviser next. ♪ ♪

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all right, at any moment the trump administration will deliver next year's $4.8 trillion budget to capitol hill. the 2021 plan is remarkably different from what the president promised on the campaign trail. for example, he promised that his campaign, if over eight years, he would get rid of the national debt. now the budget says it will close that deficit by 2035. and remember the pledge that mexico will pay for the wall? on the southern border. the president's new plan asks for $2 billion in taxpayer money to fund that wall. let's talk about this and the economic impact of the coronavirus, very important, with kevin hasert. so good to have you. let's start on budget. you've seen this thing. i want to talk about what you've seen. and what happened to the president's promise that he, if he's elected, would get rid of

the entire national debt in eight years? >> yeah, in fact, just to remind the viewers that as chairman of the cea, i was the head of the thing called the troika, the thing that constructs all the assumptions for the budget. i was in the middle of the process for the budget over the last couple of years and i can see the nuances of how it changed. i would say two big headlines for how it has gotten sort of worse, we'll talk about the president's new proposal, is that military spending is way above what we originally thought, which, you know, the president advocated, and then the tax cuts reduced revenue by more than we thought in the first year. and i would say those are the two things on that side. but i think that going on now, he's taken on entitlements in a way that is relatively newsworthy. he's looking at big spending cuts over the next decade to try to get ahead of the curve on the deficit. i think it is really a big change in the sense that there is real positive policy changes

that are leading in the direction of reduced deficit. >> i want to get to what you said about the tax cuts in one minute. that's newsy. on entitlements here, the president tweeted out here, we're not going to touch social security or medicare in this budget. he didn't mention medicaid. you've seen the thing, are there cuts to medicaid coming? >> i think the way i think about what is going on is that if you look at the stronger economy and there is some pretty strong growth assumptions in the budget, maybe higher than i would want to go now, but with those strong growth assumptions, you get lots of people off of food stamps, people out of welfare, looking back over the last three years, 7 million people off of food stamps, 700,000 people off of -- 300,000 people off social security and disability. i think we have to wait and see what the details come out at noon. i think the economy really does do a lot of that work for you without having to -- >> maybe. it is making a lot of assumptions, though. you can't guarantee there are no cuts to medicaid, that's clear.

let's get back to what you said about taxes. the corporate tax cuts, one of the big concerns was this, what is playing out is that you would have such a reduction in revenue coming into the federal government that was just going to balloon the deficit. cbo said in 2018 this would balloon the deficit almost $22 trilli -- $2 trillion over ten years. you're saying that's happened. the outlook is worse than you expected. is that right? >> well, that's a little bit incorrect. what you did is you said the corporate taxes are coming in way lower than expected. the corporate taxes are losing revenue with the rate, but gaining revenue with all the international tax rules and the stuff that can't pay for itself is like the joint tax cord, $700 billion over ten for an expanded child credit. a lot of democrats support that, a lot of republicans supported that. child credits don't pay for themselves. they wanted to find something that gets stimulated if you cut the rate and totherwise, that

$700 billion will not pay for itself. looking at the fullness of time, if we get growth, there will be enough revenue to cover a couple trillion of tax cuts. if that happens over -- >> that's and if. i would say a cbo report recently showed the tax collections are weaker than they would have been without the 2017 tax reform, especially on the corporate side. to coronavirus for our remaining time. you've spent a lot of time crunching some of these numbers. so let's start with china and move to the u.s. what should people expect the economic impact of coronavirus to be on the chinese economy? >> right, our hearts go out to the folks afected by this. it is a great human tragedy. i think we're still updating our estimates of how many people in china are affected. but pretty much rule of thumb, if you shut down the economy for a week, you're going to lose about 2% of gdp and there is so much quarantine in china right now that when we look at it, and

we're sort of seeing that chinese gdp is going to be a good deal lower the first quarter, 2% to 4%, and with that, the way it is reverberates throughout the world economy is the chinese consume an enormous amount of commodities like copper and oil and other things. and so the price of oil has been going down and that could well continue and given that the u.s. is now at oil exporter, that could be bad news. the supply chains in the er are disrupted because there are things like iphones and stuff that get parts from china. i've talked to some friends on wall street, the estimates of what it does to first quarter gdp are about .3 to .5. turning economics, let's turn back to people. our focus is on the human tragedy and trying to stay ahead of the curve on that. >> you're completely right on that. kevin, thank you very much. thank you for your outlook. significant if we see a 4% decline in chinese gdp and the impact around the world. thank you. >> interesting answers about

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giuliani to provide the doj information that he dug up in ukraine. >> evan perez joins us now. what is barr saying here. the nuance is important. >> reporter: right, that is correct. this was a press conference held to announce charges against members of the chinese military for hacking into equifax, the credit reporting bureau. one question we this is the comments from lindsey graham, the senator, saying the justice department set up a process to look into what these allegations that rudy giuliani has been making from ukraine against joe biden, against joe biden's son. so the attorney general confirmed he had a conversation with lindsey graham, he said there is a process being set up in the field for the justice department to essentially vet the information that rudy giuliani claims shows there was corruption going on in ukraine, that connects to joe biden's son as well as to the former vice

president. we have to remind folks, though allegations are unsubstantiated, not proved at all. it is something now that the justice department according to the attorney general is going to at least going to be looking into to see what is true, what isn't true. the attorney general was quick to add, guys, that essentially everything that comes out of ukraine has to be treated suspiciously. he says there is a lot of very bad information, there is information that cannot be trusted, but coming from the ukrainians and presumably would include some of the information that lev parnas, giuliani associate who has been charged in new york, he's also been presenting information he says comes from ukraine. so you can bet that all of this information now, the justice department is going to be taking a look at. >> foreign information from a foreign country with political ramifications here. that's remarkable headline here. the justice department is looking at it. evan perez, thank you very much. 92nd annual academy awards

brought a little politics, a few surprises and groundbreaking moment. stephanie elam joins us from los angeles. so, stephanie "parasite" the first foreign language film to grab the top prize. >> that's huge news, jim and poppy, the big news to come out of last night. "parasite" continued to build momentum and as it was leading up to the oscars, some awards shows were giving it the top prize, people were talking about it more and more having people say i really just like "parasite" after they won for director, when bong joon-ho one for director, people said this may be "parasite's" night. when i talked to before the show and afterwards, after they got the foreign language film, he thought that would be it. and you can tell he was completely shocked. they won for the screenplay, they looked at the statue on stage like is this really happening? he said he had an out of body experience when i asked him about it later on. walking away with four oscars,

and the big prize of best picture, the first time that you've seen a nonenglish language film take that honor, so excited. and the crowd was behind them. you could feel the cheering, you could feel everyone really wanting them to have this moment, making sure they were able to finish the speeches when the lights went dark. that was a big moment. and for the acting, pretty much the way we expected. that would be renee zellweger winning for "judy" for best actress and after that, joaquin phoenix winning for "joker," for best actor. we expected that as well. laura dern best supportinging a actress in "marriage story" and brad pitt for best supporting actor for "once upon a time in hollywood." his speeches have been on point throughout awards season and he took this moment to soak it up and also get a little political there in his speech, which was kind of outpitt.

he was enjoying the awards season ride. interesting to see how it culminated for the stars. >> watch "parasite," it is powerful. >> it is so amazing. >> every week i say i'm going to do that, maybe this will be the week. >> stephanie elam, thank you very much. >> thanks to all of you for joining us. big day in new hampshire tomorrow. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto. "at this hour with kate bolduan" starts after a quick break.

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hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. thank you for joining me today. it is crunch time, folks. one more day until new hampshire voters head to the polls for first in the nation presidential primary. the democratic contenders are then crisscrossing the state making their final pitches to voter and sharpening their attacks against each other. pete buttigieg and bernie sanders the two candidates that appear to be at the top -- that are at the top coming out of the iowa caucuses. they're taking each other on in a way we have not seen since they got into this race. and it is in the just them. >> i respect senator sanders. but when i hear this message go ou