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MTP Montage Sun 5 October 2014

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Meet the Press Transcript - October 5, 2014

CHUCK TODD:
This Sunday on Meet the Press, America is on edge. Ebola's been diagnosed on U.S. soil for the first time.

DR. IRWIN REDLENER:
The country is absolutely not ready for a large-scale epidemic.

CHUCK TODD:
The head of the secret service had to resign after a series of blunders that compromised the security of a president... 

CHUCK TODD:
Has our government got a grip on all of these challenges facing the country. And can President Obama keep his promise about combat troops?

PRESIDENT OBAMA:
I won't commit our troops to fighting another ground war in Iraq or in Syria.

CHUCK TODD:
We're going to hear from an Iraq War veteran who thinks he's already broken it. 

CLAY HANNA:
The truth is that they are actively engaged in combat...

BRIAN WILLIAMS:
The highest alert. The CDC has now increased the emergency response to the Ebola epidemic.

CHUCK TODD (V/O):
This outbreak is the largest in history, causing the president to send U.S. military personnel in an attempt to control the spread of the virus.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:
We have to act fast. We can't dawdle on this one...

LESTER HOLT:
It's an unbelievable scene as a man jumps over a fence. 

CHUCK TODD (V/O):
A man able to penetrate one of the most protected places in the country.

KRISTEN WELKER:
No one has ever gotten all the way through the front door, just behind me.

SCOTT PELLEY:
Worse than we knew.

BRIAN WILLIAMS:
Turns out, he got deep inside the mansion before being stopped...

CHUCK TODD (V/O): 
an email confirming that another American is being held by ISIS. And a White House realizing they needed to reassure a frightened public...Ebola has left Africa and walked into a Dallas hospital... CDC laying out a worst-case scenario, which could see 1.4 million infected by the end of the year...

Earlier this month, President Obama told me that only the U.S. could lead the fight against the virus. And more than 3,000 American troops are being deployed to West Africa in order to help with these relief efforts and build makeshift hospitals. But it's important to note only one case has been diagnosed in the U.S. so far...

Thomas Eric Duncan tested positive in Dallas after traveling to the U.S. from Liberia. His condition was downgraded yesterday from serious to critical. And of course, here at NBC, we've been impacted. On Thursday, Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman, who had been working with our chief medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman in Liberia, was diagnosed with Ebola...

She of course will quarantine herself for up to three weeks. I'm joined now by Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control...

DR. TOM FRIEDEN:
just restoring the patient's fluid balance can save a lot of lives. And in Africa, we're seeing some of those makeshift hospitals providing that good fluid care that's doubling survival rates there...

The bottom line here is we know how to stop it. It's not going to spread widely in the U.S. for two basic reasons. We can do infection control in hospitals and we can do public health interventions that stop it in its tracks.

We do that by identifying every possible contact, monitoring them for 21 days, and if they get any symptoms, isolating and monitoring them as well. That's how you stop Ebola. That's how we've stopped every outbreak. In fact, just this past week, we reported on our experience helping Nigeria stop their importation of Ebola...

I don't think we're going to see a huge number of Ebola patients, or even concerns for Ebola patients...

DAN PFEIFFER:
With, I think the first thing we need to do is make sure that the American people understand how hard it is to contract Ebola... 

We've been preparing for this eventuality since the outbreak in West Africa started seven months ago...

CHUCK TODD:
Why though, I guess go back to the question...

I think this is a public that is very fearful right now, because you say one thing here, and then all of a sudden, Ebola walked into a Dallas hospital...

So you may do more?

DAN PFEIFFER:
No, I think we are going to look and make sure everything is working...

we're very confident in the procedures we have in place...

CHUCK TODD:
I think one of your challenges though is a trust deficit that has been created over the last 18 months. I want to put up a graphic, whether you believe it's fair or not, it is a fact about all the different sort of government gaps over the last 18 months. Edward Snowden stealing NSA files, the VA faking wait times, IRS losing emails, healthcare.gov doesn't launch. 

The president himself saying, "U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated ISIS." The DHS, the border failure with that surge over the summer, sort of failure, and of course, the secret service. Why should we trust that what you're saying about the CDC is able to handle this?...

DAN PFEIFFER:
Look, I do understand that people have had a growing skepticism of institutions for a long time, including government. But people should know that everyone in the situations you mentioned, where a problem arises, we deal with it. We deal with it quickly, we deal with it forcefully to make sure it doesn't happen...

Let's take one example that got a lot of attention over the summer, which is the surge at the Southwestern border. That was a problem that came. We brought to bear every resource possible to do it. And this month, crossings at the borders are less than they were this time last year--...

CHUCK TODD: 
I'll give you, there always is a good reaction. Ebola needs to be pro-action...

SEN. RAND PAUL (ON TAPE):
You also have to be concerned about 3,000 soldiers getting back on a ship. Where is disease most transmittable? When you're in very close confines on a ship. We all know about cruises and how they get these diarrhea viruses that are transmitted very easily and the whole ship gets sick. Can you imagine if a whole ship full of our soldiers catch Ebola?...

DAN PFEIFFER:
It's a concern that is being dealt with and we're prepared to deal with. People will be screened appropriately, we'll make sure that doesn't happen...

CHUCK TODD:
Well, there's a lot of public officials that are skeptical and nervous about this...

CHUCK TODD:
I'm going to shift to the secret service here. When the White House decided, when the president decided to hire Director Pierson, did you guys rush? Did you vet her properly?...

DAN PFEIFFER:
Obviously, what had happened over the last several weeks here made it clear we needed to take another direction...

CHUCK TODD:
Turned out she was the wrong hire, right?

DAN PFEIFFER:
Turned out we needed a new direction...

CHUCK TODD:
I'll ask you about the president's speech in Chicago this week. There's one way to read it is that he was declaring victory here on his agenda, that he believes he's got a successful-- is that a way to look at it? That basically it worked? "Hey, my policies were right. Look at this. Everything is great."...

DAN PFEIFFER:
he said very clearly that we have more work to do because too much of the benefits of that growth is not being showed broadly enough on the middle class...


CHUCK TODD:
He said, "We're better off now than we were before." But the direction of the country, the public, nearly 70% of the public thinks we're heading down the wrong--...

A big disconnect here...

What you've heard from Dr. Frieden and Dan Pfeiffer, you feel any better than you did Friday?

JOE SCARBOROUGH:
No, I don't feel better. And I don't think most Americans feel better...

The World Health Organization has been dismal. They've ignored all of the warning signs...

a lot of Americans are seeing what happened in Dallas and looking at your laundry list, what happened with the secret service, what happened with the IRS, what happened with the VA, what happened with ISIS being a JV team. So when anybody, any member of the government says, "Hey, just relax, everything's going to be okay," Americans don't believe that...

ANDREA MITCHELL:
And in fact, it's that laundry list, it's more and worse here, because in Dallas, look what happened. The man comes into the ER, he tells a nurse he was in West Africa, in Liberia, they initially blame it on a computer system where the nurse doesn't call the ER doctor...

Now they acknowledge it wasn't the computer system at all, that the doctor on the case had the same information. People are not communicating. And this is after we were told by the government, by the CDC, by the White House, that doctors and hospitals around the country were prepared...

they now believe if they go to a small number, four main airports, they can get about 75% of the people coming in...

CHUCK TODD:
JFK, Dulles, O'Hare, Newark...

ANDREA MITCHELL:
You cannot trust people to be asked a questionnaire at the port of departure in Africa...

GWEN IFILL:
I think we have a couple of different questions here. One is that the set of systems broke down....

It's one thing for the U.S. to say, "We're going to send all of these mobile military hospitals to set up in Monrovia." But it turns out, there's no infrastructure there to get them set up...

CHUCK TODD:
Well, and obviously we have a math issue...

DAVID AXELROD:
Tom Frieden, Tony Fauci at the NIH, these are public health professionals of world-class standing. They have no motivation to mislead the American people...

CHUCK TODD:
I brought up flu season for a reason, because the symptoms are almost identical. And we could see a total crush on that system...

I've got the head of the Republican National Committee here, Reince Priebus... 

I'm going to ask him the reasons why we're not seeing signs of a wave for the GOP...

Republicans are hoping for a Beach Boys kind of November. Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world. But so far, that wave not really in sight...

Thursday, my next guest, Reince Priebus, played out what he called the GOP's principles for American renewal ahead of the midterms. But those principles are nothing like the clear message the party offered in 1994, when Newt Gingrich's Contract with America led to a Republican sweep...

Karl Rove said it was very well poll-tested language. Preserve, value, and honor the constitution, grow the economy, balance budget amendment, healthcare reform, improve veterans’ access to healthcare, strong military, equal educational opportunity, improve the job market, value family life, religious liberty, hard work, energy independence, immigration including secure borders and uphold the law...

But there's no policy here. No policy connected to this. Why?...

We call for a balanced budget amendment, that's policy. We call for school choice, that's policy. We call for the president adhering to the constitution and not violating the law and not abiding by what we call the Separation of Powers Act in the constitution. I think if you go back and look at the Contract with America, you'll see it'll say welfare reform--...

when you can put John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, Tony Perkins, and the Tea Party Express on the same page...

CHUCK TODD:
If you don't win the Senate, failure?...

REINCE PRIEBUS:
I think we've got to win the Senate...

CHUCK TODD:
If you don't win the Senate, this is a bad election?

REINCE PRIEBUS:
I think so...

I think we will win the Senate. The question for us is are we going to win with six, seven, or eight seats?...

CHUCK TODD:
One of the things in here that you didn't mention, there's a lot of social issues. Why was that?

REINCE PRIEBUS:
Well, we did talk about a strong family, we did talk about life, and we talked about family--...

CHUCK TODD:
Are social issues working against you guys?...

REINCE PRIEBUS: 
the fact of the matter is that people are out of work, the real unemployment rate is at 11.8%. 

And whether you're in Laredo, Texas, or Peoria, Illinois, the president's policies aren't working. 

And the president on Friday, as you rightfully noted earlier in the show, said that his policies are on the ballot. 

Well, if Barack Obama's on the ballot and his policies are on the ballot, it's going to be a pretty bad year for Democrats...

the labor participation rate is at record lows. 

People today don't feel better off than they were five years ago. 

And obviously, whether it's the GSA, the IRS, Syria, Ebola, the Secret Service, I mean, what's going well in regard to this administration and those senators that have followed this president lockstep?...  

CHUCK TODD:
A court upheld a new law in Texas. One of the things about the Republican party is you don't like a lot of regulation on businesses, except if the business is a abortion clinic. 80% of these abortion clinics in Texas are going to be basically out of business because of this new law...

REINCE PRIEBUS:
The issue for us is only one thing. And that's whether you ought to use taxpayer money to fund abortion...

things aren't going in the right direction, whether it be ObamaCare, jobs, the economy, Keystone Pipeline...

NARRATOR:
Obama's candidate for senate in Kansas? Greg Orman. A vote for Greg Orman is a vote for the Obama agenda...

DAVID AXELROD:
It was a mistake...

ANDREA MITCHELL: 
The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Financial Times, all the reporting on the jobs data from Friday reported that participation rate is at historic lows, decades lows. 69% are involved in the labor force...

We have two Americas, we really do...

CHUCK TODD:
did he have a message?

JOE SCARBOROUGH:
No...

Barack Obama is not on the ballot. His issues may be on the ballot. But look at the polls. His numbers are low. And yet, despite the fact they're low in Kansas, you've got an independent candidate who's up by ten points...

DAVID AXELROD: 
it reminds me of the old Mayor Daley said, we have to rise to higher and higher platitudes.

JOE SCARBOROUGH:
You are so parched...

It makes me sad, David Axelrod...

CHUCK TODD:
President Obama has vowed American troops will not be sent to take on ISIS. But are they already engaged? We're going to hear from an Iraq War veteran who said that the so-called troops on the ground are already there...

Hanna is an Iraq War veteran who served from 2003 to 2008...

CLAY HANNA:
I do not think that there is honesty when the president, when leadership has been speaking about how troops are being deployed. What's being said is that there are no boots on the ground...

The truth is that they are actively engaged in combat. At some point, ISIS is going to have a success. And what the military success looks like for them is a dead American soldier. We have a dangerous tendency to underestimate the enemy and overestimate our allies and their capabilities. And I see us making that exact same mistake now...

When we give weapons and training to people who we should not trust, people who we would not let on an airplane out of our own airports. It's inevitable that down the road, they will most likely turn against us...

CHUCK TODD:
And welcome back, now to our Meet the Candidate series, sort of, this week I'm joined by Jim Webb, who points out he's just a potential candidate for president in 2016. He certainly has a unique resume. Webb is a former Marine and served in Vietnam where he won a Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as well as the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts...

In the '80s, he served in the Reagan administration, as an assistant secretary of defense and secretary of the navy. In 2006, he switched parties and was elected as a Democratic senator from Virginia and served just one term before opting not to seek reelection. He's also a successful author and screenwriter and has written eight books over the years...

JIM WEBB:
it's fair to say right now that we are at a crossroads as a nation in terms of how we view ourselves, how we say these things to ourselves. And the way that these issues are going to be resolved in the next couple of years will affect us for a very long time...

average salaries have gone down, loans to small businesses have actually decreased. And we have a criminal justice system that's embarrassing...

we have not had a clear articulation of what American foreign policy is, basically since the end of the Cold War. 

So when you're looking at places like Iraq and Syria, you're seeing policies that can't be clearly articulated...

CHUCK TODD:
You're basically saying President Obama doesn't have a foreign policy.

JIM WEBB:
I'm saying that in terms of a clear doctrine, we have been lacking that for a very long time. And it particularly impacts the Middle East. 

If you look at what's going on right now, there are two data points I think that are critical. The first was the decision by the Bush administration to invade and occupy Iraq. Which empowered Iran and unleashed all the sectarian violence. 

And then it was what I thought was a strategic, the inadvisable strategy of the Arab Spring. And what has happened in Libya as well as Syria as a result...

take a look at the end result of Libya, are an enormous number of weapons that are unaccountable...

I would be willing to bet that we had people at the top of ISIS who actually have been trained by Americans at some point...

identify the issues that America needs to focus on and in order to regain the trust of the American people...

if you look at these polls that you were showing, I think the people are way ahead of their leaders. And they know we have these problems, that we're at a crossroads. 

And they're very disappointed in the fact that the top leaders in both parties have not been able to come together for the good of the country to work to solve them...

PRESIDENT OBAMA (ON TAPE):
So it is indisputable that our economy is stronger today than when I took office. It's also indisputable that millions of Americans don't yet feel enough of the benefits of a growing economy where it matters most. And that's in their own lives...

CHUCK TODD:
This uneven economic recovery is the reason why Democrats are up for reelection this year in mostly rural states. Think Mark Pryor, Arkansas, Mary Landrieu in Louisiana...

Look at this, Kansas. Pat Roberts, a Republican, not even cracking 40%. Greg Orman, the independent, up ten points...

GREG ORMAN:
this is about solving problems. This is about the voters of Kansas saying the status quo doesn't work anymore...

ANDREA MITCHELL:
It's classic. He's an outsider, he says he's independent. And the fact that Pat Roberts ignored all the warning, ignored what happened to Dick Lugar, you have to live in the state. You have to have residency...

Talk about the hatred of Washington...

JOE SCARBOROUGH: 
The question is, what works?...

Listen, I hate to be negative about the Republican party, but if the Republican party doesn't win in 2014, 2016 is bleak--...

Not getting the Senate is a loss this year for the Republican party...

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