office this is the only the 2nd time that he's spoken from the oval office or the last time was january last year when he was speaking about a border war with mexico to limit immigration and he posed the virus threat as very much in the same terms describing it as a foreign virus speaking in terms of repulsing some kind of outside invader now the travel ban initially he said applied to everybody that coming from the schengen states that's $26.00 european states he also implicitly blamed europe for what he saw as their lax attempts to prevent the spread of the virus subsequently it was clarified that the stairs not apply to cargo planes president trump treating him the same self and then homeland security saying it does not apply to american citizens or permanent residence so certainly there needed to be a lot of clarification about the what the president said in that particular speech here is one of his statements. taking early intense action we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the united states than are now present in europe. the european union failed to take the same

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office and get things done i was all on that welcome to bloomberg 2020 baguio on the front runner going into super tuesday stayed in the fight bernie sanders easily won his home state of vermont along with significant victories in colorado and utah most importantly although it will be hours and possibly days before all votes are in he's the winner in the critical state of california with its huge block of delegates the votes and i tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win that democratic nominee should the all along and where ya go you took the feet the most dangerous president in their history of this country the was. some super tuesday appear to reflect a new focus among democratic party voters in choosing a presidential nominee despite the debate about competing platforms support is being increasingly determined by one single issue who would be the most suitable candidate to defeat donald trump robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. well more coverage of super tuesday later for an hour we want to bring you up to date with the rest of the world news and turkey's defense minis

corona virus infections continuing to rise president donald trump made our rare oval office address to an out. new travel restrictions to blunt the spread of the fire us to keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days these restrictions will also not apply to the united kingdom truck justified the strict measures by blaming european leaders now dealing with a mass outbreak of cases. the european union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from china and other hot spots with financial markets falling and a rising number of americans staying home from work trump also urged the u.s. congress to put in place measures to provide financial relief if we are vigilant and we can reduce the chance of infection which we will we will significantly impede the transmission of the virus us corona virus infections now number more than a 1000 prompting local governments around the country to cancel large public gatherings closed schools and even ban fans from sporting events late wednesday the n.b.a. sus

that's really very flexible we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day for 2 to be very flexible and the on it literally day by day repo week this is you need to evaluate the feasibility of what you're trying to do if we do the kind of testing we were doing testing will always be associated for identification isolation and context tracing and you find after a period of time that there are areas that are very different from other areas of the country you may not want to essentially treat it as it is just one force for the entire country but look at flexibility in different areas so i think people might get the misinterpretation it is going to lift everything up and even somebody is going like that i mean that's that's not going to happen more now from our correspondent in washington mike hanna there has been push back against the speculation or the president's intention to lift the lockdown in a number of areas by easter that's less than 3 weeks time even though he said that it would not be in the whole of the country

the last few weeks and to say the very least losing most of their gains since donald trump took the oval office in 2017 so this is something they've been working very hard on that and there has been some criticism from republicans that the democrats have injected almost everything including the kitchen sink in terms of their wish list into this almost 2 trillion dollars legislative package and the on the other side there has been the argument from democrats that republicans have been writing blank checks to big business with little oversight and few limits and the ordinary american is getting hurt as a result the truth probably somewhere in the middle and this is something that the white house has been watching very carefully in fact donald trump is holding a virtual town hall in the rose garden of the white house as we speak and he is eager to get this legislation signed is something that he's been pushing as treasury secretary steve has been to shuttle diplomacy between the white house and capitol hill trying to get this done the president though very keen to get this done for another

yeah that's right this is coming from the oval office the last time we remember the president having a similar address was more than a year ago when he was announcing that he would be getting money from the pentagon for the border wall one of his big campaign promises this is something that presidents usually reserved for a very somber serious occasion trying to restore calm in times of crisis in this country often we have sort of referred to the president any past president who has done this is the consoler in chief it's not clear that this president feels comfortable in that role so we're really kind of leaving things open in terms of what we can expect from donald trump as you've pointed out in many cases even today he was looking at this almost as a political crisis versus a public health one referring to democrats on the tweet today from the president that he didn't think that they were taking this seriously certainly top democrats on capitol hill would counter that and say that's exactly what they've been doing so many are looking to the president to have sort of treat this is

office thank you very much. you still want to just start you're a strategist mr president there are there are so many people right now they're rushing to cosco they're russet brushing your fist doors all the cars are filling up their baskets is that the right move do you think that people should actually be saying you know maybe conserve as opposed to buy also overnight after a certain they announce they're going to closing all their stores for 2 weeks do you want to see other retail outlets the restaurants the point that do the same thing for the front of it i think it's frankly it's good if they do it i think what apple did is fine and want to keep people away for a little while just keep them away well i don't know when it gets better well people are going and buying things and i understand it by the way. i had my temperature taken coming into the room. you did good sir. let's compare them they're all good while we're buddies were all looking good you also took i also took the test last night. and i decided i

saying that he didn't believe that mike bloomberg had what it took to be president to make it to the oval office that he could have told him that he could have saved him hundreds of millions of dollars as gabriel was talking about the hundreds of millions in that infrastructure that was put in place by mike bloomberg donald trump speculate himself that it likely will go to joe biden i think it's tough i think joe has an easier path right now believe it or not. or seemingly much as gaga he's going to you know try and save face by putting somebody into buttons. and bloomberg put in probably a $1000000000.00. and you know sometimes you just sort of wouldn't take. now we should point out in all of this that donald trump was his as you heard there characteristic mocking tone almost a schoolyard bully once again once again referring to mike bloomberg as many mike sort of sort of making note of his height and in the midst of all of this we've you know mike bloomberg is sort of responded but he's taken the high road in the past he's called him basically a carnival barking clown this time it was a

well he did virtually immediately after he finished his speech in the oval office he was tweeting that he had to clarify the fact that not all air traffic from europe is being outlawed 'd that call go flights will continue then other of his officials had to clarify other details in the course of the morning once again and number of points said president trump appeared to misspeak a particular times in observers spending a lot of the day trying to understand exactly what it was that the president was saying at the moment his meeting with the irish prime minister is continuing that's one of the few events that is going on as should jeweled he's defended his travel ban insisting for example that the united kingdom was excluded from the ban because it has has he puts it strong borders but critics contend that his band is somewhat haphazard focusing as it does on the 26 members of the agreement excluding island as prime minister is talking to now and excluding as i mentioned the united kingdom some observers contending that the reason for this is that he has financial interests in both the

office or it's a complete of the white house complete thank you for that. well candidates have been pitching their positions on the number of major issues and that's important for voters as they decide their candidates nearly 5 out of 10 democrats think that health care isn't stream important for the republicans the figure is just 22 percent on climate change 44 percent of democratic voters and only 8 percent of republicans think that it's important income inequality is considered a crucial subject by 37 percent of democratic voters and 12 percent of republicans race as we've been discussing here tonight is also among the big issues for 33 percent of democratic voters less so on the republican side as model not saying only 11 percent in a student debt rises in america 43 percent of democrats and 23 percent of republican voters think that education is a critical concern we're joined here on set again as part of our panel tonight al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashara along with joseph who are a professor of political science at texas a and m. uni