March 9, 2020 - PBS NewsHour full episode

In our news wrap Monday, Twitter has applied a “manipulated media” tag on a campaign video shared by a White House aide and retweeted by President Trump. The edited clip makes it appear that former Vice President Joe Biden, leading in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, suggested Trump be reelected. Also, in Afghanistan, both Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah declared themselves president.

Monday was a tumultuous day in the global battle against coronavirus. Italy’s government banned travel nationwide after new spikes in infections and fatalities. Meanwhile, U.S. stocks had their worst day in over a decade. Special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports from Rome, and Judy Woodruff talks to Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics and Ben Mutzabaugh of air travel website The Points Guy.

Voters in six more states will head to the polls Tuesday in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary -- which is now essentially a two-man race between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Michigan is the largest delegate prize, and Sanders, who won the state four years ago, is trailing Biden in polls there by around 15 points. Yamiche Alcindor reports.

Rahm Emanuel has served as a top adviser to Presidents Clinton and Obama, a three-term congressman from Illinois and a two-term mayor of Chicago. But in his new book, “The Nation City,” the longtime Democrat argues that mayors are today’s most effective U.S. government officials. Emanuel sits down with Judy Woodruff to discuss that idea as well as his fears about "reckless" progressives in 2020.

NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report join Lisa Desjardins to discuss the latest political news, including how the 2020 Democratic presidential primary has changed since Super Tuesday, why Michigan is such an important state for former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders given its 2016 history and the politics of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Amid the growing U.S. coronavirus outbreak, some experts have criticized the way President Trump, his team and top public health officials are communicating information to the public. For example, Trump made inaccurate statements Friday about the availability of virus tests. Dr. Joshua Sharfstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.