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Meet the Press Transcript - October 19, 2014
DR. DANIEL VARGA (ON TAPE):
For the first time in the history of the United States, somebody with Ebola walked in the front door.
CHUCK TODD:
As two nurses come down with the disease, is the wider American public really in danger?...
how big a threat is Ebola to Americans? Can our healthcare system handle an outbreak?...
Sunday, a nurse who cared for Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas
Presbyterian Hospital is diagnosed with Ebola herself. Nina Pham becomes
the first American to contract the disease on U.S. soil...
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI:
I don't know how it happened...
CHUCK TODD:
Monday, Nina Pham's dog is moved to a decommissioned naval base to be monitored...Thursday, Nina Pham is moved to an NIH isolation unit in Maryland...
REP. FRED UPTON:
It's not a drill. People's lives are at stake. And the response so far has been unacceptable...
CHUCK TODD:
And Friday, the White House appoints Ron Klain as the "Ebola Czar"...
You are treating one of the nurses that contracted Ebola down in Dallas, Nina Pham. Tell us about her condition.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI:
She's doing well. Her condition is fair, she's stable, and she's comfortable...
CHUCK TODD:
We are getting very
close to that magic 21-day figure for anybody that was working and
treating the late Mr. Duncan. So when we get there, does that mean
everybody connected in Dallas is out of the woods?...
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI:
no...
CHUCK TODD:
The role of a surgeon
general, would it be more helpful to have the surgeon general be the
public medical spokesperson right now for the government?...
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI:
it's always nice to have a surgeon general...the big issue right now is the contact tracing...
CHUCK TODD:
So now we're going to
stick to these four hospitals. Any diagnosed Ebola patient is going to
get transferred to one of these four locations...
How did we not have the right protocol in the first place?...
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI:
The original protocol that was on the
CDC website was a protocol that was adopted from WHO in which they
handled the epidemic under much different conditions than at a tertiary
care hospital.They did it in the bush...
we needed to modify that protocol to be much, much more strict, in which no part of a body is exposed...
CHUCK TODD:
One of your colleagues
seemed to hint that if you guys had been funded, had more money, you'd
have a vaccine today. Was that hyperbole?
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI:
I don't agree with
that. I have to tell you quite honestly. I think that the NIH just had
constraints in resources for ten years, and all the biomedical research
has been less than its robust activity...
CHUCK TODD:
I'm joined via Skype
from Accra, Ghana, by Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission for Ebola
Emergency Response. Mr. Banbury, welcome to Meet the Press. Was the WHO
unprepared?...
ANTHONY BANBURY:
The most important priority we need right now are healthcare workers...
CHUCK TODD:
Five Ebola Myths in the Washington Post.
is U.S. ready to fight Ebola?...
LAURIE GARRETT:
No...
We've spent billions of dollars on project bioshields to try to come up
with miraculous vaccines, drugs, treatments for special pathogens which
always included Ebola...
we also spend billions getting every single health department in the
entire United States to go through drill after drill after drill.
Get the cops, get the firefighters, all the public health people put on HazMat suits, boom...
Get the cops, get the firefighters, all the public health people put on HazMat suits, boom...
CHUCK TODD:
Dr. Kelen, you're in
charge of emergency preparedness for Johns Hopkins. When you look at
what happened at Texas Presbyterian, what lessons have you taken from it
and do you think you guys would've been better prepared?...
DR. GABE KELEN:
we have been preparing all along, with anthrax and SARs and avian flu, H1N1, and MERS-CoV recently...
CHUCK TODD:
In 2011 flu and pneumonia killed over 53,000 people.
Motor vehicle accidents killed over 35,000.
Accidental falls, 27,000.
Tuberculosis 539 victims, lightning strikes, 26.
Ebola, this year, one...
LAURIE GARRETT:
when the virus, in particular, begins to wreak havoc with the central nervous system, people become deranged, they can become violent...
The real problem is that this epidemic is completely out of control in Africa.
It's doubling every two weeks.
We're going to be looking at 100,000 cases by the time we sit down for Thanksgiving.
We're going to be looking at 200,000, 300,000 cases by Christmas.
We're looking at an exploding epidemic.
And it's out of control because it's in the general population...
CHUCK TODD:
it's inevitable we're going to have more cases here in the
United States simply because maybe people will come here looking for
treatment...
DR. GABE KELEN:
The American people do not need to worry that
there's going to be somebody with Ebola deranged in their shopping mall
going rank nuts...SENATOR ROY BLUNT:
we don't have flights directly in and out of any of these countries. So all of our people go through some other country to get there anyway.
The question is, do you let people come here from this area that is clearly stressed.
And one way to prevent that is just not to issue them a visa...
I'd suspend those visas until we have this under better control and have a sense of the carriers they are using are monitoring this in a better way than they have been up till now...
Well, I'm not sure that if you made them mandatory, you'd have a way to enforce that mandatory determination...
CHUCK TODD:
Senator Casey, why don't we have a surgeon general confirmed? Dr. Vivek Murthy was nominated over a year ago.
SENATOR BOB CASEY:
It's Washington dysfunction, Chuck. It's as simple as that...
SENATOR ROY BLUNT:
I'm hearing now that the attorney general nomination won't happen until
after the election. We keep putting everything off until after the
election. And that's one of the reasons that things don't work...
SENATOR PAT ROBERTS (R-KANSAS):
Well, again, the Ebola epidemic, along with ISIS, shows you how we should really secure the border. And not be granting amnesty...
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE KELLY (R-PENNSYLVANIA):
Oh, you don't have to
worry about this, you don't have to worry about this. Really? Well, the
government needs to stop acting as if it's absurd for people to fear a
virus that liquefies their internal organs...
REP. BLAKE FARENTHOLD (R-TEXAS):
Every outbreak novel or
zombie movie you see starts with somebody from the government sitting
in front of a panel like this saying there's nothing to worry about...
SENATOR ROY BLUNT:
it's the border, the IRS, the secret service...
LAURIE GARRETT:
there was a vaccine center at NIH, they did develop a
prototype-possible Ebola vaccine, as have other sites in other companies
and locations around the world, but there was no incentive to take it
through the pipeline for commercialization...
The virus is up in a marathon, it's up on the 20-mile line. And the response is still back around five miles...
DR. GABE KELEN:
they're not assured that they can come back...
CHUCK TODD:
With
the midterm elections just over two weeks away, the base season has been
in full swing. This past week was the political version of March
Madness. We had confrontations over Ebola, President Obama, even over
whether a candidate could bring a fan on stage...In a campaign where ad spending is expected to be over $3 billion, one of the last places to catch candidates unscripted is oddly on stage...
With the President's job rating sitting at or below 40% in the Senate battleground states...
REP. TOM COTTON (R-AR):
Under the Obama-Pryor economy.
ED GILLESPIE:
The Obama-Warner policies.
THOM TILLIS
Senator Hagan's voted with President Obama 96% of the time.
REP. BILL CASSIDY (R-LA):
And 97% of the time.
REP. CORY GARDNER (R-CO):
99% of the time.
SEN. KAY HAGAN (D-NC)
I disagree with the president. I think we need the bill the Keystone Pipeline.
SEN. MARK UDALL (D-CO)
When he continues to give a green light to the National Security Agency to spy on Americans.
DEBATE MODERATOR:
Why are you reluctant to give an answer on whether or not you voted for President Obama?
ALISON LUNDERGAN GRIMES:
Bill, there's no reluctance. This is a matter of principle.
CHUCK TODD:
And not all Republicans are eager to embrace their party label either.
REP. CORY GARDNER (R-CO):
You know, when it came to the Violence Against Women act, I actually stood against my party.
CHUCK TODD:
Even the Republican
party's leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell said this week he wants to
repeal healthcare reform, but not Kentucky's popular state-paid health
care exchange. So ObamaCare by another name.
DEBATE MODERATOR:
You would support the continuation of Kynect?
SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY)
Well, it's a state decision. Several states have--
DEBATE MODERATOR:
But would you support it?
SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY):
Well, that's fine, yeah, I think it's fine to have a website. Yeah...
CHUCK TODD:
And as talking point
fatigue sets in and voters tune out, campaigns are now trying to get
their attention by turning to the politics of fear.
THOM TILLIS:
Ladies and gentlemen, we've got an Ebola outbreak, we have bad actors that can come across the border.
SENATOR PAT ROBERTS (R-KS):
This all goes back to ISIS, Ebola, and the other problems that we see on the border.
CHUCK TODD:
Candidates are sharpening their attacks.
MICHELLE NUNN:
You would be the only senator that from his own words has built a career around outsourcing American jobs. That's why.
CHUCK TODD:
And they fine-tune the art of the backhanded compliment.
SENATOR MARK PRYOR (D-AK):
You know, he did go to
Harvard, and certainly we're proud of that. I know he probably couldn't
get into the University of Arkansas. We get that.
DEBATE MODERATOR:
I'd like each candidate to say something nice about your opponent.
SENATOR PAT ROBERTS (R-KS):
Very well-dressed opponent. I admire your accumulation of wealth...
CHUCK TODD:
the unforgettable moment can happen when a
candidate just doesn't show up.
DEBATE MODERATOR:
We have been told that Governor Scott will not be participating in this debate...
MIKE MURPHY:
Well, you can't get
Alison Grimes to admit who she voted for with a jaws of life machine. I
mean that was a disaster for her and Mitch McConnell's going to win.
The
Democrats aren't a problem. I mean, the president's numbers are down to
40%. I mean, broccoli’s at 45%. You're going to have a rejection...
we have had a conga line of screw-ups here between the IRS, the Syria
red line fiasco, and now we have Ebola. Which, I think you have to be
careful about politicizing it, but it does become a narrative of
incompetence. He's going to get punished...
MANU RAJU:
Charlie Crist was leading in that race before that fan fiasco...
CHUCK TODD:
Politics is a
profession very few walk away from willingly. Sure, there are some
senators and congressmen who often move onto lucrative lobbying careers...
WILLIE GEIST:
This 87-year-old man is working the phones for votes...
There's 76-year-old Larry Pressler, out for a morning jog, and stunning
the political world, as he runs neck and neck in a race to win back the
South Dakota Senate seat he lost in 1996...
Released in 2007, from what he calls, “the federal gated community,” the
73-year-old Cianci wants his old job back, holding court on this night
at a drag bingo game...
BUDDY CIANCI:
We've had over a decade
of decline in the city. That's number one. And I looked around to see
who was running, and none of them have the vision. And so I decided that
I would run...
WILLIE GEIST:
Edwards, who many
people in Louisiana still call "The Governor," and who now has a
one-year-old son, was first elected to Congress 50 years ago...
EDWIN EDWARDS:
You know, a lady asked
me the other day, "You're 87 years old, you're retired, why don't you
just do what you feel like doing?" I said, "Lady, that's what I'm doing.
I feel like running for Congress."...
"The only way I can lose this race is?"
If I got caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy. And you know what? There was no chance of that happening."
WILLIE GEIST:
Edward's greatest quote, the one that he just said there, or the one he
said in the 1991 race against David Duke, who was the grand wizard of
the Klan. He was asked, "Do you have anything in common with David
Duke?" And he said, "The only thing we have in common is that we are
both wizards underneath the sheets."...
CHUCK TODD:
All Democrats agree, it was a bad week for them...
ANDREA MITCHELL:
It's a bad week for Democrats. The White House has been under fire...
if there are more voter restrictions placed in some of those states, it's going to be really hard for Democrats...
MIKE MURPHY:
we're going to have the power now to start talking about middle class economics and policy. If we don't, it'll get to grievance politics.
we're going to have the power now to start talking about middle class economics and policy. If we don't, it'll get to grievance politics.
We're going to blow the Republican opportunity in the long term...
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