brian, ainsley, steve? brian: it will be crazy. i'm sure the bloomberg people, griff, want him to stay in because is he writing big checks to everybody. he has a tremendous staff. ainsley: aides are saying is he considering ending his campaign. not very smart to spend all of that money going forward. steve: let's see what he does. he will let us know. griff, thank you very much. there at the ucla campus. brian: we will see what he does in another debate. er time he take as debate stage he loses more of his reputation. ainsley: he might drop out before the next debate. steve: seen the numbers and analysis with donna brazile in a moment. first having breakfast with friends from coast to coast in the super tuesday states of vermont, tennessee and texas. let's check in quickly pete who is live in fairfax, vermont. pete: good morning, guys. room full of great vermont folks here. they know crazy bernie. he has been around here for decades. not surprised he won his home state. there is some surprise though that when you go a little bit so

brian: yep. the soldiers were stationed in the middle east for 11 months, so they have got to be relieved. steve: they are going home. ainsley: welcome back. brian: one of the hardest things flying kuwaiti air they can't drink. ainsley: they are used to that. brian: you would think they can hop on a plane. ainsley: different story last night when they got home? brian: i think. so. steve: probably right. let's bring in dan bongino, fox news contributor and author of "exonerated, the failed takedown of president donald trump by the swamp." hey, mr. bank, good morning to you. ainsley: hey, dan. >> good to see you all. it's on my bucket list to go to a mountaineers college football game and sing country roads at the end. if you haven't seen that check this out on youtube it's something to behold. steve: it is, indeed. we weren't looking at youtube yesterday. we were looking at "60 minutes," phoney hill ofiona hill testifie impeachment hearing she scad asked about ukrainian and russian electio interfe

brian: right. we have been on the air with 9/11. been on the air through all the elections messes. we didn't know who the next president was. being on air when the tanks were rolling in to iraq. this is like no other between the economy, the challenges and the unknown. this is an interesting time. steve: but last night the president made it very clear we have a plan. and we start with a fox news alert. according to the experts, there are now more than 1300 coronavirus cases across 44 states in the united states including washington, d.c. 36 people have lost their lives due to the coronavirus. brian: the virus officially declared a pandemic. meanwhile in italy, airports have been empty for days. the whole country is locked down, all stores except pharmacies and food markets closed. ainsley: bars and restaurants with are closed in italy. tourist attractions nearly deserted. italy has the worst covid-19 outbreak outside of china. steve: china says they have actually passed the peak and that is good ne

brian: right. one of the things i can't emphasize enough, even if i test positive and i feel -- i'm still not going to the hospital, right? for the most part, i can quarantine myself, correct? >> yes. you want to talk to your doctor, but i am sending nobody to the hospital because they're going to infect health care workers. no matter how much caution we use, there's no space. if you have a severe fever, if you have an underlying health condition, if you've got severe shortness of breath, if you have a very productive cough and you have an underlying condition or are very elderly, those are the people i'm going to send to the hospital. brian: all right, doctor, great work. thanks so much. >> appreciate it. brian: coming up straight ahead, market futures are plunging at this hour as the federal reserve slash ares interest rates to nearly zero. they were hoping for just the opposite reaction. stuart varney is on deck with what you need to know about the economic impact. (announcer) carvana's had a lo

brian: dr. sapphire by the way the places are packed i tried to give twice yesterday and the places are wrapped around the block. i guess people are answering. are you doing telemedicine now? >> so my profession, i don't necessarily do telemedicine and especially where i work, we are still a cancer center and so a lot of our people, our patients still require interaction, and, you know, i'm not going to say business as usual where we are but people still are encouraged to get their chemotherapy but same with my husband he's a surgeon and he can't do surgery via telemedicine but i have a lot of friends who are doing it right now and it's a learning curve for everybody but the restrictions that are being lifted for a lot of these doctors have just been so crucial to making sure that people are able to be seen with their doctors, to talk to doctors and be evaluated. steve: you are, however, today making a house call, you're being on television from your house, dr. nicole saphier thank you very much

brian? brian: you have got to wonder if the president is going to get his way. he is getting impatient. things are going to get worse before they get better. after 15 days a big decision. is he going to be saying restart this thing while the u.k. shuts down and other states lockdown. i'm wondering if there are other places he will lift up the vale and let the economy roar. pressure from all sides. medical community wants one thing. economic community wants another, ainsley. ainsley: i was reading on social media how people were talking back and the president was exchanging some opinions about what to do after these 15 days. and he is saying we are going to get back to work. we are going to open up businesses very quickly as soon as we can they are starting these drug trials today. hopefully these new drugs or these malaria drugs c pack and other things will get. if that's the case people can get back to work and have a solution. i pray to god that that happens. people can get back to work. p

brian: dr. siegel great to talk to you and we'll do a half hour of these questions on radio all right? and he will be in that as well. ainsley: thanks, dr. siegel. let's hand it off to jillian with headlines. reporter: great advice there good morning to you guys breaking overnight, new world health organization staffers test positive for covid-19. the organization based in switzerland says the workers started showing symptoms at home after leaving the office. it's unclear how or when they were exposed. this as the first cdc worker tested positive. it's unclear if the employee worked at the atlanta headquarters and the cdc is sanitizing the office as the worker recovers at home. they are not involved with the coronavirus response and are said to be in good condition. >> also overnight, a delta jet grounded for several hours over coronavirus fears. a passenger reportedly alerted a flight attendant they may have been exposed to someone who was sick as the plane was on the tarmac at new york's jfk a

brian: wow. steve: forget about republicans bad mouthing joe biden those are democrats. >> exactly right. i went back and watched the 2012 vice presidential debate between joe biden and paul ryan. go back and watch it if you can. he is sharp, i'm talking about biden. he has a grasp of the facts and his arguments. he is quick. he is a different person. he was in his late 60's then than the version we are seeing now. think about this for a moment. if joe biden wins, you are not getting late 60's 2012 joe biden or 2020 joe biden. you are getting a joe biden who will be in his 80s. given the decline we are seeing ainsley, that's a scary proposition. ainsley: do you think so now is he nervous he is expected to make these gaffes and is he trying to think about everything he says that makes him more nervous people have called him out on it. >> if it happens. look, everybody makes gaffes, right? particularly whether you have a spotlight on you all the time. with him it seems to be on an hourly basis. and

brian: you are anchoring with brian tomorrow. brian: playing saturday. thanks, pete. 43 minutes after the top of the hour. dr. anthony fauci failing at testing for the virus. relief is on the way. is he going to join us live with an update coming up next. own h. you own a pasture. a barn. and hay. lots of hay. you need a tractor built to get every job done right. the kubota l series tractors. stay two nights and get a free night for your next stay. one night, two nights, free night. book now at bestwestern.com. when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics yeah, and now business is rolling in. get started at fastsigns.com brian: all right. a fox news alert. the coronavirus fears escalating across the country as over 1600 cases have been confirmed here in the u.s. so far. ainsley: american doctors struggling to find enough test kits amid the surge in the coronavirus patients. steve: so how prepared is the u.s. to combat covid-19? let's talk to dr. anthony

brian: how can that be? brian: brian, ship him one. brian: it's like all of us not having teleprompters in our house. ainsley: which we don't. brian: that's right. all right. so that's going to be great. watch from 9 to 10:00 is going to be great. i imagine we could do this every sunday so many super stars with nothing to do. steve? steve: well, it will be great. a national camp fire we will all gather around to see that everybody, even those famous folks are in the same boat we are. all right. meanwhile, 7:18 in the east coast. coming up as hospitals run out of room in some cases, our next guest is leading the charge to transform everything from dorm rooms to hotels to accommodate the influx of patients. here from the u.s. army corps of engineers commanding general after the break. ♪ hey you, yeah you. i opened a sofi money account and it was the first time that i realized that i could be earning interest back on my money. this is amazing. i just discovered sofi, and i'm an investor with a diversified portfolio. who am i? it's becau

brian. brian: all right. thanks, jillian. joe biden hurled profanities at michigan worker who had the guts to ask him about his stance on guns. brian: interesting, right. here to react is gun rights activist coloyne, what's your reaction to joe biden's reaction to being asked about his stance on the ar-14 or ar-15 assault weapon. >> what i want people to understand is that joe biden is a political elitist. he spent his entire professional career in politics. august all he knows is power. some lowly judge comes and confronts him about his agenda on the second it enrages him. how dare you challenge me on a position about my control? which is why he is always trying to relegate the second amendment to the idea of hunting second amendment has nothing to do with hunting. how many shotguns he owns or how many times his son goes hunt something irrelevant when it comes to the second amendment. it's about the right of the people being able to bare arms. and joe doesn't like that. because is heed to having power and his overall goal is

>> brian needed assistance. brian needed compassion. brian needed to be heard, but none of that happened. >> reporter: maybe what brian needed most was for bomb teches to defuse the device around his neck. the erie bomb squad didn't get that chance. coming from another part of town, they arrived just two minutes after the explosion. the commander suited up into his bomb gear. what did you make of it? >> the collar still remained on his neck, so you could see that, and we couldn't tell whether there was still any explosive devices inside what remained of that collar. >> had you ever seen anything like it? >> like that? no. really nobody in the united states had seen anything like that. >> reporter: that included jerry clark, with 20 years of law enforcement experience under his belt. he was joined at the scene by his fbi supervisor. >> after both of us initially said, oh, my god, i can't believe what we saw. and i said, i got to have this case. and he said, it's yours. let's go. >> reporter: from the first moments, every move agent clark

brian: yeah. you just expect more. number one, when you get into a leadership position, you are supposed to modulate others from flying off the handle and then you come in and maybe massage some type of apology. but for chuck schumer to take the lead and lose it like that and then to have his staff which arguably, you know, is as sophisticated as anybody on capitol hill come back with that retort and insult with that explanation makes me think my hope is that he will walk this back today. but, as you mentioned he is going to look to censure him. ainsley: senator john kennedy from louisiana is disappointed. he thinks he should also apologize. i wish all the justices would come together and say look, no more political comments. we want to stick together. we might have been appointed by obama. we might have been appointed by president trump, but we try not to have any political leanings. brian: as you might have noticed joe biden had a really good super tuesday. as you might have noticed, he picked u

pete: and brian. >> and brian. steve: the reason you are there at that particular place is because your uncle suggested it because he knows the food is great, right? pete: that is correct. that is the reason i'm here right now. uncle brad. ainsley: what do the farmers grow in that area? pete: what do the farmers grow out here? >> mostly corn. pete: mostly corn. what else? anything else? >> a lot of dairy around this area. pete: my grandparents were dairy farmers as well. brian: all do you is put a seed in the ground and bury it and it greys. what's the big deal? steve: dairy farm? ainsley: you milk the cow. brian: get a cow, get a corn. so easy. steve: family day out in red wing. ainsley: plant a cow get a corn. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. as the coronavirus dominates headline us. next guest says there is another infection we need to watch out for, the flu. dr. nicole saphier is here with what you need to know you're doing more to keep your body healthy for the future. shouldn't your toothpaste do the sam

brian: right. so griff jenkins, as you focus on this package, there is another run coming right behind it as both sides of the aisle are working together as well as our secretary of treasury steve mnuchin working with both parties. how is this going to help americans, griff? griff: all of this put together is going to help americans. good morning, brian, ainsley, and steve. the president on a war footing brings a big deal at lot of authority like the ability to deploy the navy hospital ships like we saw yesterday and the power to compel private industry decades old law to ramp up production of critically needed supplies. in vowing total victory the president says he will not hesitate to use it. >> we have tremendous numbers of ventilators but is there has never been an instance like this where no matter what you have it's not enough. if we need to use it, we will be using it at full speed ahead. griff: moving quickly signing the first coronavirus relief package into law yesterday that provides free

brian: yep. a new poll shows vermont senator holding a double digital lead in big state called texas. steve: casey stegall joins us live from dallas-fort worth the metroplex. good morning. >> good morning, brian, ainsley and steve. here in the lone star state a lot is up for grabs tomorrow as you know. and the latest nbc marist poll shows that about 34% of the vote tomorrow would go to vermont senator bernie sanders. former vice president joe biden collecting about 19% of the vote. and former new york mayor mike bloomberg with 15%. senator elizabeth warren from massachusetts with 10%. analysts say bernie sanders is polling well with latino voters. and here in texas. that accounts for about 40% of the state's total population when you look at the census numbers. 228 delegates up for grabs here tomorrow and california has the largest prize, 416 pledged delegates. so the candidates, no doubt, laser-focused on these two states in particular. >> i am here to ask for your support to win on tuesday. let

brian: yeah. i think it's also kind of interesting we are going to go into detail and griff hat has te details. i'm a speed reader i don't read that fast. new york has over 50% of the cases as you have heard governor cuomo yesterday. hey, we're the canary in the coal mine, we could be coming to a city near you. as much as we want easter, i don't know if easter is possible. on our show today dr. oz will be with us to talk about the encouraging results from. so therapies that are out. senator tom cotton will be with us. dr. nicole saphier and dr. will will marc siegel and stephanie grisham fresh off her quarantine will be joining us live. steve: that's right, brian. you know, that late night deal, 1:30 in the morning that we are talking about to bring financial relief to millions of americans affected by cv 19. griff jenkins joins us live in washington to break down the compromise. griff, now yesterday we were talking about the 1,000-page nancy pelosi bill that was a nonstarter for so many republica

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brian? brian: all right. it comes as the u.s. sees its deadliest day since the coronavirus outbreak began more than 200 people dying in the 24 hours. bringing the total number of if fatalities to more than 1,000 ainsley. ainsley: hot spot of the virus, new york. we have over 33,000 confirmed cases here with nearly 300 deaths in the city alone in new york city alone. makeshift morgues are already being set up outside of the hospitals to handle those deaths. right now there are more than 474,000 cases around the world. more than 21,000 people have died. the good news is here in america, the senate has reached a deal. it now goes to the house. then it will go to the president's desk. it was unanimous. the president tweeted 96-0 in the u.s. senate. congratulations, america, it's huge for small businesses get into the details. every person making 75,000 or less will get a check for $1,200. every child in those families will get $500. steve: that's right, ainsley. and so today is, as people look in and they are self-isolating and socia

brian: right. so you are asking a bunch of spring breakers not to do spring break like for example everybody else outside of florida not doing spring break and to see that yesterday was really disturbing and you have to just say to yourself we are in a different time. for some reason they are not getting the message, many states in the northeast and some in the midwest like kansas and definitely on the west coast, california that this is serious and everyone has to take personal responsibility despite your ages. ainsley: yeah, it's affecting all of us, brian and steve in different ways. i had a babysitter the other night i was talking to. she said it's my senior year of high school. i'm not going to get to grow to prom. last semester with my best friends i have grown up with all suffering in some way because of this. but it's for the greater good. steve: absolutely. my daughter cancelled her wedding. she has looked forward to her wedding her whole life. and it's not going to be in five weeks becaus

brian: all right. five states are now forcing anyone coming from new york, new jersey, and connected cut to quarantine for two weeks. out west in los angeles, good new york city the usns mercy hospital ship is treating its first patients. steve: meanwhile, across the other side of the country's the usnf comfort ins comfort is supk today. over 2500 americans have died. it is 6:00 in new york city. good morning, everybody. today is what was going to be the 15th day of 15 days to flatten the curve or slow the spread. yesterday the president said, you know what? this thing is supposed to peak in two weeks when i was hoping we could open things up around easter, can't do that. so, anxiously, looks like we are going to be sequestered for another month. ainsley: yeah. he says he wants everyone to stay at home as much as possible and stay safe and that way hopefully we can wipe this out in the next coming weeks, coming months. president trump has agreed to come on our show. he will be with us at 8:00 a.m. this

brian? brian: yeah, and steve so far and ainsley, the president started out with this and of course no one has experienced a pandemic before. but it started out a lot of people thought a little bit slow. no one really knew it was going to be as bad as it is right now it. seems as though the one thing that's going up pretty consistently despite the media questions we get every day, as the president spoke for 90 minutes in a press conference. harris poll said 60% of the country approve of the president's handling of this virus. abc poll at 55%. so some are skeptical and want to be critical. the american people are sitting back watching being asked to sacrifice a lot. and even though the president got elected with under 50% of the vote and mostly been under 50% his entire three years they like what he is doing so far. but, of course, everything can be better. meanwhile senate lawmakers coming to blows. almost coming to blows as democrats are efforting to block more than 1 trillion-dollar relief

brian: yes. and repeatedly he would talk about being with the children, ice-skating and doing all these things as a family. it was so important to him. he came back after the war and i was having a conversation with my dad. about this last weekend, we all saw this growing up. as a grandfather he was so passionate about getting the family together. if we were in the month of february and he had not heard about what are the plans for st. patrick's day and the three birthdays, what is going on? i want to know. we have to have a plan. so he was very loving in that way. and very much ever present in the moment. he was not a guy who is going to be on the phone even though his business may have required it. he was right there with you. many in the community, i've heard from many of you. i thing i saw hilary snell. he shared a story with me as he was passing through the old hotel one day. and he said hey ralph you do not know me but i loved to have -- i would love to have lunch with you. that's the kind

>> brian, thank you. the federal reserve out with an announcement saying it's going to be reducing bank examinations especially for small banks this is an interesting area here where there have been questions about whether the fed needs to provide some reliefs to banks in the wake of the dodd-frank era they're saying the fed will grant additional time to banks to resolve non-critical supervisory issues however, one place not getting relief is the fed is requiring the biggest banks to submit their capital plans for the stress test. there's been a debate. one idea has been, hey, you know what if these times you don't have to stress test the banks. they're being stress tested right now. another sign to that coin is go back to the machine in 2009 when the stress test was a huge thing that showed the markets the banks had enough capital and so there are some banks, we're told that actually want to have the stress test to show they're in good shape there are still other things we're waiting the fed might be abl

brian? >> brian: melissa, you lived this on fb and into thousand eight. so i'm not telling you anything you don't know. remember, a lot of this money was given for projects, and those progress down my projects were not sure of ready. both sides are winning from that. they are sinking to small businesses -- there are strings attached. they told -- to not use -- to buy -- if you can work -- when you say -- airlines. when you say -- excuse me, new -- that is un-american. worse yet, it's perhaps -- 405 republican senators who have the coronavirus. they feel as though you need -- i'm going to hold you over a barrel. because he was supposed to? americans. >> harris>> melissa: carley, tho true. i do remember those shovel-ready jobs. this time around, people are really hurting and need this in order to make payroll, to keep their small businesses open. how do you think they feel as they watch this fighting going back and forth? where two sides frankly are saying things that don't match up. someone is lying. i don't think the average person wants to sort through i

brian: true or false. hospital wants to see you if you have a high fever but they will say stay home if you have a cough. >> and shortness of breath. let me tell you why that is. yes, yes to your question. here is why. these are classic symptoms for some kind of respiratory. flu is different. i feel like i was hit with a ton of bricks and body aches. brian: no question that's the flu. >> i wrote books on food. body aches and fever. this is cough and problems breathing. steve: this is also coming at the same time and this is something i suffer from seasonal allergies because it's been warm the last couple of months. there is a lot of pollen in the air. i have the sniffles and naturally i figure oh well, it must be coronavirus. it's not coronavirus. >> and everybody is going through what you just said. everyone thinks it's them. we always overpersonallize the risk. we hear a story like this and we sense that it is happening to us. steve: because they say i have got that. >> our ers get flooded with people wi

senate republican leadership also in washington brian becker he is director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear daily new show on radio or a gentleman cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate james let me go to you 1st the reason why i want to do this program at the end of the year is because we tend to look at events in a micro fashion you know what's going on in this country that country trump administration brags that you know which of course we do in the news media but i sometimes think that we love we missed the very big very big pictures of what's going on and the major changes that are happening around the globe and and the international system and this whole idea of multipolar world which is kind of foreboding to talk about in western media because by default it means the west loses something and somebody else gains something is that one of the reasons they don't like to talk about the coming of a multi-polar world go ahead james i think it is peter i mean look you're right i. a multi-polar world is a d

. >> brian: happy to be here. >> kennedy: your seventh hour of broadcasting. >> brian: last ever was taken over by "the roger stone story." i'm pretty sure this won't be a roger stone show. fascinating to see what's taking place, experts aren't sure what's going on. >> harris: next hour i will have dr. oz. the reason i say that is to try and get everybody on the same page because i think that's helpful, if they can be. whether or not, we will talk about it. we will hit fear with facts. what do you make of where we are with with the public knows, what we are being told? what do you think of the message and? >> brian: i don't have a major problem with the messaging. the one thing that comes -- there's no doctors necessarily on the couch but there's almost one in every turn we take. if we get this, we are going to survive this. the symptoms are more likely less than the flu. if you are compromised in some area or if you are a little older, the challenge is greater. i have news for you, most seniors know that. my mom was told for the longest time, "i can't get a cold in the winter." beca

brian: mr. president yesterday you spoke for 90 minutes. when you go out there you take endless amounts of questions and the one thing i think a lot of people are telling me over the weekend is seeing democrats and republicans getting along in some cases like you with governor cuomo, we watch your presser, we watch his presser on a daily basis we get a lot of news. one thing i didn't hear you address and if you did i'm sorry but he talked about immunity tests and giving people in new york an immunity test and germany seems to be doing the same thing where if you had it and got rid of it you're immune perhaps and you can go to work and if you go to work maybe they can take your temperature like they do when you go to give blood. president trump: right. brian: can you see this being the way to normalcy? president trump: well, i can. i think it's going to be a big help and we're very close, as you know you probably listen ed because i talked about it yesterday, where they're refining the final step

and so simple that i may go back to brian and a more serious note here brian i think that you know all of his here on this program agree that the sentiment to get these senseless wars echoing donald trump in 2016 why why doesn't it filter up what where where is the bottle neck what what what what what happens from the grassroots until you get into these think tanks that their entire existence is based on starting another war or go to war with iran i mean where is the bottle neck where does it flip go ahead brian. there's a there's a myth about american governance which is that it's a democracy that it is the rule of the people and that the elected representatives have constituents and their constituents are the people who elected them yes there are elections every 2 and 4 years in the united states but it's quite clear by any . assessment or analysis of how the congress the house or the senate function that the real constituents of these elected officials who are constantly engaged in fund raising nonstop 247 every week every month of the year that their real constituents are wall stre

ok let's go back to brian in washington. i think the real problem here is i was a trained historian and i love history and i still do it to study history to this day the big problem we face here in understanding and dealing with grappling with the multipolar world which we do have in respect of the denial of the blob and the media is that it's american exceptionalism is the biggest problem here because american exceptionalism automatically delegitimizes any kind of challenge ok i'll keep it very neutral ok because if you look at great britain i mean at one point it covered one 4th of the world's population and land ok and it for the most part gracefully more more or less relinquish that because it was in its interests to do that but it didn't have this exceptionalism in the way it does in the united states is that that's really the biggest barrier it's more of a psychological barrier and that's because of exceptionalism they're blinded to geo political facts and i want to talk about actually a multipolar world is best for ev

brian is the chairman, the man at bank of america. highly respected. everybody in this room is at the highest level. brian, please. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you for bringing us together. the ceos of the large banks here want you to know that we're -- because of all the work done on the capital, liquidity and as we look forward to uncertainty due to the virus and oil price changes, we're very strongly capitalized. most importantly, we're doing what we do best, which is helping our teammates importantly but also our clients and our small business customers to continue to have access to credit. all of us are providing relief to any customer that has an issue of being out of work because of the virus. and we can tell you that up until, you know, the last couple of weeks, the activity has been very strong and i think it's still strong. we're seeing people spend money. small business loans are continuing to grow. auto loans are growing. mortgage loans are strong. but we're well capitalized. we're here to help small businesses and medium-sized busin

brian kiefer? >> yes. >> reporter: brian kiefer, aka, money. brian's nickname is money? >> yes. >> reporter: do you know why? >> he said that's what, you know, the drug dealers call him. and i believe it's probably because he is a boss. he owns his own company. and he runs in those same circles of people. >> reporter: brian ran a building renovation business, but he also had a criminal past. troubling to you? >> yes. it's always troubling when you know they have records and they're doing things that are outside the law. so that's always a concern. >> reporter: did you think for a moment that possibly he might have done this? >> yes. everybody -- once again, everybody is still on the table. we don't know who did it. >> reporter: and unlike lance, who either was or wasn't on a shrimp boat, detectives learned that brian had been spotted in jacksonville recently. now they wanted to talk to him. >>> coming up -- >> brian tells us some things that only the person that was there would know. >> but couldn't that make him a suspect? >> could. >> and he also reveals something else

i am brian sullivan. we have options action coming up in a few minutes and we do have a special guest, someone who last april said the s&p 500 could be setting up for a 40% decline and that is scott minerd, and scott, welcome again. you did not foresee this global pandemic coming and it's not just the global pandemic, is it right? the market structure and the debt loads and everything else that was already in place, the pandemic may have been that chip on the jenga stack, if you will. >> brian, if you want to say it's a house of cards that was built by the policymakers in order to bail out the financial system during the crisis one day, you know, a breeze came along and knocked over one with the cards and it's bringing the whole house down well, the house, the equity market rose 13% this week. i understand we are still well down on the year it seems like the fed has shored up the credit market, but it sounds like you're not believing that the bottom is in yet. >> no, i don't think so. i mean, brian, when

and you also had a bunching effect, brian. you had an enormous number of things that were investment grade because that's when we get the highest equity return and this is the wall street model, right? so now the environment's changed and many of those credits if they came to market would be high yield and they'd be junk and they'll become junk soon, so the market is aware of this. they just don't know quite what to do with it which is an issue by issue basis. >> and occidental got moved to junk by moody's. >> chris whalen, i have a feeling -- >> i have my portfolio time to see it >> i i'm trying to find some levity i'll put some easter eggs, up. >> coming up, the coronavirus drying up silicon valley's deals and what's next for the unicorns and wanna be unicorns? how will this affectunng fdi in silicon vally? we'll focus on that and airbnb coming up. you should be mad your neighbor always wants to hang out. and you should be mad your smart fridge is unnecessarily complicated. make ice. making ice. but you're not mad because yo

come on, brian, you can do this! >> brian: i apologize. i almost went to med school but then i started doing radio. [laughter] this is the most encouraging thing. vaccines would be 15 months. if you get a therapeutic that can start putting people back on their feet, when they get tested there is a positive, you get this right away. it could be mass-produced because it's over the counter right now. when you have somebody interacting with the fda, while not giving up the fda's reputation along the way, that's what's going to turn around the market, the economy, and the world. >> melissa: that's huge. >> harris: one of the things that i caught the president really getting asked so many questions about, something he tried to spend the most time on, was that the defense production act -- at the very beginning of that news conference. i still have questions, dr. saphier, about what is needed behind the scenes. because we continue to hear medical professionals, and their health failing. expeditiously, because they are on the front lines. when the

>> yes, brian. it's great to hear you again a lot has happened since the goldman sachs conference, but we're focused on the industry. we've asked poet us potus to st the price war. pompeo has called mbs and the g20 and the g7 have both put significant pressure to stop this price war and if we don't we'll be importing 60% of the crude from the middle east >> what have they said they're dialed in and you're the only ceo in the opec meeting i know your ear is to the ground have the saudis made any explanation for what they're doing? why suddenly this massive rift between two countries that were sort of joined at the oil hip. >> you have two personalities between mbs and putin that are fighting each other, as you know russia's been cheating since last december with the comments with the relaxation at the recent opec meeting in december and then you go into this recent meeting and they wouldn't cut and they wanted to see what happens to the man and i don't blame them at the same time, u.s. products are u

i am brian sullivan. the market meltdown comes as congress scrambles to launch a massive aid package to help millions of americans who are likely to either lose their jobs or a good portion of their incomes. we'll hear about all of this in moments. senator pat toomey of pennsylvania will be joining us live exclusively he has been inside the 11th hour negotiations on the hill and we'll get answers on what the ultimate stimulus plan may look like and what aid packages are likely to come and whether regulators are considering banning shortselling and reinstituting rules and that interview is ahead let's break down this historic week and joining us now our friends guy adami joining us in moments. >> we learned that a big chicago firm, ronan capital was unable to meet its capital requirements and this forced the mercantile exchange to invoke emergency rules and auction off its portfolio. guy adami, we lost a few hundred points toward the last hour. do you think that news exacerbated the selling and do you beli

. >> announcer: to brian sullivan. with me the entire hour, peter bookfar wiright now stock futur indicate what could be a nice open to the upside, about 175 points within the last hour we were up 400 to 500 points implied. we'll see if that moves. the dow jones futures have been going from losses all the way to gains. at one point we had a range of 1100 it's been a volatile, possibly preshadowing the market. ten-year government yields we gone down to 1.0 3 year, setting the record two-year treasury notes, 1.2%. the session low for american-based crude is $43. you can see $45.53 the last trade there. we have seen a bit of a downside move in the last hour or two let's watch what's happening a rebound in under way, in asia and europe as well as investors hope for action from global central banks around the coronavirus. matt taylor is in singapore. julianna tatelbaum is in london. matt, we'll start with you first. we did see some nice green finally in those asian markets >> absolutely. asian markets mostly in the money de

i am brian sullivan. just a reminder we continue social distance here at work trying to flatten that curve, welcome, everybody, as tyler says as he always does, what a week it was. i think everyone would agree, tgif, not from the dow's perspective. all in all, we were up 13% on the dow, and the best week since 1938 and that is cold comfort given what we've seen and we are down thousands of points from our high just one month ago and the dow losing 115 points today. the benchmark ten-year treasury note ended kind of where it began at 0.7%. when you throw a couple trillion dollars like the fed is at the bond market maybe you will see a move, maybe not, and continues to fall, and it is moving around after hours. oil stocks falling across the board as well today. the average oil stock in the united states is now down 50% this year and there's a lot more that are down each more than that welcome. "options action" will be on at 5:30 as well and our group has been resilient, and that is guy adami, tim seymour, a

>> nice to be on your program, brian. thank you. oil is experiencing two major shocks one is demand from the coronavirus and one is supply from the saudi-russia price war. in the past, oil prices have been hit either by a supply shock or a demand shock. right now we have two, and in terms of demand, the fear from the coronavirus has had a huge impact on demand, basically last year we expected for this year, actually, we expected demand to be going up a million barrels a day and now it's estimated to go down 500,000 barrels a day and the way the economy is going and the way people are being quarantined and 12 million people fly a day and that number is way down now and that estimate could be on the optimistic side and in terms of supply, you were just talking about it last week the russians flexed their muscles and saudi arabia decided to flood the world's oil market to teach the russians and our producers a lesson and that's that they have a big stick, but the real problem here is saudi arabia and russia are playing chicken at the w

the reviews on the commercial paper were not that great, brian. person person said it replicates its actions in '08, welcome, but not enough the billion dollar bill is a start, but the focus on the payroll tax cut is a mistake another senior market participant i talked to said it is too punitive right now. that's what they're using and the commercial paper market is still not functioning well others say it may eventually function well and brian, here's what's going on in the credit markets and the economy is being shut down because of the virus and actions to stop the spread of the virus, but nobody figured out how to pay for it, so what's going on right now is there's concern about default and risk in a lot ofcredits right now and almost every actor in the financial industry is trying to make sure that they're not stuck with those credits that will default or be at risk. >> that's why what the administration is doing is so important and that's why what thefed is doing so important and two months or so that it is shut down because of the virus >>