host: good morning. the presidents we will begin tomorrow to talk about the situation in africa. here in the u.s., on wednesday the president travels to the pentagon to meet with military officials and military brass on isis. and he is on the road again with a number of fundraisers in california. the sunday, the front pages and editorials, questions on the response to the ebola virus by the federal government and world

health organizations. , how the world health organization failed to stop the ebola disaster ." are you confident of the response so far? phone lines are open -- host: good sunday morning to you. you can also join us online -- host: the story this hour from reuters, from dallas, the first ebola take -- ebola patient in the u.s. to return from the thet -- to return for worse, going from serious .ritical in a dallas hospital the case of thomas eric duncan

has heightened concerns that the worst epidemic of ebola on record could spread from west africa, where it began in march, so far it has taken over 3400 lives. this headline this morning, the front page of the dallas news as the hospital and west and faces new criticism. this is one of the issues on the sunday morning programs, with that, nancy callow with an update. class topics today do include the ebola virus arriving in the u.s.. they will also talk about the secret service, the fight against isis, and politics. you can hear rebroadcast of all the programs beginning at noon eastern with "meet the press." guests today involved france priebus and jim webb. and that 1:00, "this week," with dr. tom friedman.

with00, "fox news sunday," the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious these is. also on the program, kelly no.te and dan bungee at 3e of the union" airs p.m. with lindsey graham and jack reed, both members of the senate armed services committee. face the at 4:00, " nation," with benjamin netanyahu, kevin mccarthy, and .lijah cummings sunday network talk shows are on c-span radio and brought to you as a public service. rebroadcast of the shows begin at noon used in with "meet the week," "statethis

of the union" at 3:00, and "face the nation" at 4:00. you can listen to them all on c-span radio, across the country on xm satellite channel 120, download the free app for your smartphone or go online to c-span.org. host: thank you, nancy. as she indicated, all of our agile information is a war is available online. does ebola make you question the confidence you have in the government's response? first the background, available online, the ebola virus causes an acute serious illness that is often fatal when untreated. it first appeared in 1976 with two simultaneous outbreak. one in sudan, the other in the

democratic republic of congo. the latter occurred near the ebola river, which is where the disease took its name. the current outbreak is the largest and most complex outbreak since the virus was first discovered back in 1976. josh joins us on the phone as her order for the associated press. thank you for being with us. thanks foraller: having me. host: is the president and administration staying ahead of the story? they are. they're trying to tell the public that this is not the time to panic. there has obviously been a lot of discussion across the united states and elsewhere about the issue, a legitimate concern and something that people are very interested in, but it is not the situation that we have in africa at this ring.

the white house is trying to allay concerns that this is something that people need to have an immediate concern about in their own community. of that--host: part came on friday, when senior administrators at the white , including lisa monaco, the homeland security counterterrorism aide to the president had to say this -- [video clip] >> the travel ban has been raised. i take note of dr. friedan's comments in this regard, which is to say that in fact we believe that those types of steps actually impede the response. they impede and slow down the ability of united dates and other international partners to actually get expertise and capabilities and equipment into the affected areas. as we said and stressed from this podium and others, the most effective thing that we can do is control the epidemic at its

source. we want to be able to make sure we are getting assistance and x are tees, getting providers into the affected region. host: let me ask you about that briefing as the officials outlined in the briefing room. it was a late afternoon event. walk us through how the situation unfolded and what we can expect in the week ahead. when they started on friday we did not have any indication that there would be this reading. what was notable about it, other than the fact that it was a friday, was that they did it on camera in the white house briefing room as opposed to a conference call where they put out information on paper. the goal here seems to be to have a prominent, visible, for topng presence brass health officials in the united states out there, reassuring the public and

resting assured that the public is doing everything they should do, following the protocols, and that at this point the u.s. does not expect there to be much of a risk at all of ebola spreading in the. the pentagon said on the same day that up to 4000 troops will be deployed west africa, which is a bit of an increase from what we had seen previously. the u.s. response is escalating, if slowly. of all of thiss -- the president, when he sat down with chuck todd, said he does not always understand the full optics, talking about over the summer and now he has a series of fundraisers but the situation with isis and ebola going on. >> that's right. this is going to be a week for the president that is going to

be full of fund-raising and political activity, which is to be expected to close the election. at the same time, government ration with an eye to the optic is trying to add to his schedule a lot of other types of events that are more focused on the crises at hand. monday he will be meeting with his national security team and he will follow that up on wednesday with a visit to the pentagon, where he plans to convene a national security council meeting about the threats from isil and the u.s. is once in syria and iraq. to show that the president can walk and chew gum at the same time. josh lieberman, thank you so much for being with us. caller: thank the lot. host: this from the "l.a.

times," "how to prevent the ebola virus from entering the united dates." "panic is not called for, but that does not mean that we should do without the western in the authorities are concerned in , despite all that assurances that this was so unlikely to happen in the u.s." that is our question, are you confident so far to the u.s. response? brad, good morning. caller: i am 59. when i was young, people trusted the government to know what to do and what they had to do. nowadays we have a government under obama that does not care about stopping ebola as much as they cure about how they appear. they are liberals, you know? touchy-feely. the world of coke. brian, independent line.

good morning. caller: good morning. the government is trying to dampen the fear and panic right now. along with the isi s terror phenomenon, this really points to the need to have -- or to lock down the immigration system. you can just have this let everybody in mentality and just say everybody fly into america, no questions asked. how realistic is it to simply ask someone -- do you have ebola? have you been to western africa? if you have gained western africa think you may have ebola, of course you are going to use any means necessary to get to a western hospital. particularly in the u.s.. people will lie to get here so that they can get the best treatment in the world. host: thank you for the call.

this is from -- this editorial this morning from "the washington ," "missteps in handling the virus in the u.s. cannot be repeated." host: that is our question, do you have confidence that the government is so far responding appropriately? good morning. caller: good morning to you and all the fine folks behind the scene to bring us this great show. host: thank you. caller: you are welcome, sir.

i have all of the confidence in the world that the government is handling this right. let's go back to where it started, the presbyterian church in texas. want,t as much as they they dropped the ball. what is it with texas? they don't need the government? don't need this, don't need that? the right wing attitude but the whole country in danger. that's where it all started. and the doctorse just plain didn't want to deal with it, i guess. the government is doing what they are supposed to do. right down there in texas, they're the ones who dropped the ball on this. that's where i fall in my opinion. thank you very much. thank you. from "the virginia times dispatch," virginia hospitals push for ebola readiness. net, republican line, good morning. am accused of i

being a racist, my priority is god, family, and freedom. closed downresident the airlines to israel, but not west africa. this president is behind all of these scandals. nobody can trust this guy. like the irs and so forth and so forth. let's think like a terrorist. i was forecasting a terrorist attack 10 years before the original 9/11. i am not stupid. got passports, you take one guy and say you want to die for allah, you say ok, so you have smallpox, take another one, give him ebola, take another one, polio. just go out there on the list. you are going to go to dallas, nashville, new york, you can't get that way? we will send you to the border.

i want to share something along these lines. they with me for moment. this is from "forbes magazine." ebola as an isis bio weapon. "isis may already be thinking of , terror groups like isis would not even have to weaponize it to attempt to reach your tj global infection as they used human carriers that attend that -- that intentionally infected themselves." that is one of -- one opinion from forbes.com these continue. -- forbes.com. please continue. caller: to go further, i have to ay this -- i used to be

liberal. anybody that follows liberal leadership now is possessive of ignorance and is only excelled by the arrogance of their leaders. liberalism has become a religion. that's why there is no on is, shall we say, intellectual intercourse with them anymore. it's pathetic. so, have a good day, sir. "out-of-control," how the world health organization has failed to copy ebola disaster -- failed to stop the ebola disaster. good morning. something on a public broadcasting channel a good 30, 40 years ago, almost. they were sending renowned research scientists to discuss the uniqueness of the ebola virus eating only in africa and just in africa. and they concluded that that , first challenges the

little squirrel monkey immune system. it is the only one that is weak enough for it to overcome. when it gets into that immune system and rose stronger. the african kids fight with a monkey because it is docile, they bring it home, if it is infected it will wipe out the whole tribe. this is a good 30, 40 years ago, when flying was not all that possible in that area. dieknow, the tribe would and then ebola would die and it was gone. you wouldn't hear about it until another monkey would be infected and that kid, human, or someone would take it as a pet. and then the tribe would get wiped out again. boom, you know? the controversy is done because of the way it spreads. thank you so much for the

call. here are the jump page, a number ofd," programs from over the weekend, a frequent guest on this network, the head of the infectious disease offices at nih talked about awesome ability of vaccination. [video clip] >> the possibility that is the most advanced is the one that i mentioned just a little while ago, the first is in a phase one trial received a vaccine in , which is the first phase of a multiphase trial to develop a vaccine, called phase one because the primary endpoint is safety. if we can determine that it is safe, and it looks good so far, and can determine a response that you would predict would be effective, when you get through that phase the next phase is phase two, in which many, many

more people conducted in the environment where you can prove its efficacy, west africa. the next phase is likely in the first quarter 2015, where we begin a trial to determine overall long-range safety and, most importantly, whether it works or not. host: back to your calls. richard, brooklyn, new york, what are you saying? morning.ood the government's response has been very political. very politic, i should say. they have tried to instill confidence in the public and so on. the only problem with that is that there is a certain degree of untruth and what they are saying, in that they have been rather absolute in saying that this disease is not transmittable except with exposure to significant bodily fluids, etc.. as to the falsity of what they

have been saying, that has been demonstrated by the health care worker and got ebola while in africa while wearing protective equipment. the other thing of course, which has been partially mentioned, this is as a potential terrorist threat. one simple way of controlling a threat like this would be to make sure that somebody who purchases a ticket from one of the west african countries into other areas of the world hasn't

purchased the ticket on short notice. perhaps they have recently known and come been exposed rushing to the western world. thank you for the call. one of our viewers has this -- host: these comments come from our facebook page. host: next the comment from bob, joining us from woodland, california, good morning. yes, i have heard of a couple of your colors that have called and. i think that the perspective -- it'se more based on

funny, republicans and democrats on civilsame views liberties, on the war, on monetary policy, on the most of orton things, they are just very kind of loose. we focus very much on domestic issues. i think that's very sloppy and a sense of inking about the future. as far as ebola goes as an issue , i think it's good to note that right now, sure, the state of mind may be that the government has more resources, given this threat, so we should trust them. going to cannes in tacoma, washington. good morning. i believe the government is doing as much as they can do. there are so few things the government agrees on anymore. this is one of those things.

next is matt, from south carolina. caller: how are we this morning? host: fine, thank you. found: how have they not the vaccine for this thing? they found the disease in 1900 or, what have these people been doing? sitting on their hands, spending their money on this and that? we can't find something to cure the cancer going around everywhere? it just doesn't make any sense, we are throwing good money after bad, it doesn't make any sense to me. i am very concerned about these people flying in from overseas. we know they are coming and they don't stop this. what is this? a big bunch of crap, if you ask me. thanks a lot. carolinas from south --

"the cdc has fostered a cadre of health professionals are ready to respond and are reliable and effective at getting this kind with hospitals around the country scrambling to .et their procedures in place they need to download the checklist, the first diagnosed case is not a sign that we need to shut people out, it is a sign that we need to bring people in. the epidemic is operable. are asking this morning -- your confidence in the u.s. government's response to this situation. jean is joining us from virginia. good morning. my confidence is very low with the obama administration's ability to handle it. president obama seems to handle for political optics and

not for health and security. we have never asked the question -- how did mr., i think his name is duncan -- how was he able to purchase a ticket into the united states, since he was classified as lightly educated? a ticket to the united states would be fairly substantial. there is a large illegal population of liberians in dallas in the united states. we have also had tremendous numbers of equal from guinea, liberia, and sierra leone crossing the southern border. president obama seems to be considering himself a global president and not an american president. over one week? he is sending our military over there to help out, but it took

over a week before the cdc secured and cleaned the apartment where all of these people were staying. they will not tell us where they are. they will not tell us where the children who came across the border are. 868now we have this virus that we haven't seen for years and years. my question is -- could these children from these four countries the carriers? now we have four deaths of our children because of this virus. is there a connection? i do not believe -- it is not the government of the united states. i believe that our military to do a fabulous job, if we had competent people. i don't believe that dr. friedman is as confident as he can say. if you shut down the people coming out of liberia, help

cannot go in. i believe that we could charter military flights. move on.are going to david is next from temple, texas. independent line, good morning. caller: good morning, c-span, how are you guys doing? host: fine, thank you. caller: putting another aspect on it, as these people proceed to the emergency room's in texas and find out that they are indigent and don't have any insurance or anything, the first thing they kind of want to do is just go ahead and get them out there. i really do think that money, the commercialism of medicine in america was one of the reasons why the ball was dropped. they say that he didn't have any type of insurance no way. insurancedn't have an card and we were going through the least amount that we can to get him out of here. so, i really do think that -- not only in medicine, but just

in customer service, and dealing with other americans, that we need to address not always the stop on the commercial aspect of it. duane is next. chagrin falls, ohio, near cleveland. of "the new york times," where the virus has dissented a problem in liberia, "how can you not touch"? the woman from virginia who was just on the air took away most of my thunder, but i wanted to talk about something that i don't think is been covered too well, there is supposed to be 3000 to 4000 u.s. troops being sent by president .bama to west africa my goodness, from what i can see on the ground, on those

coverage, it is a pretty desolate and impoverished area. these u.s. troops going to be protected from contamination and picking up the disease just by being there? bruce says this -- from mississippi, jean is on the phone. good morning. go ahead, you are on the air. caller: well, thank you. i just wanted to call and say that i watch sees him regularly. some things i like, some things i don't. i am calling this morning in my mind to raise this issue with the american people. callingnatics that are should cool it.

and say something good, kind, about our country, quit jumping on the other parties back and be good americans. host: think you for the call. this morning, the front page of "the des moines register." over half a dozen races that will control -- to determine the control of the senate in the .ext congress us fromis joining elizabethtown, tennessee, democratic line, good morning. i work at the hospital and i have the utmost confidence in our health system that we can deal with this thing. thank you. you for the call.

salon magazine is writing about the president and his .redecessor his approval ratings are low, but he could take some advice by making a habit out of ringing up .ormer president george w. bush previouson coming from events, and there was this exchange on the fox news channel with this exchange between george bush and one of the host. [video clip] reading various posts about nixon getting calls from all of president. has president obama called you? >> he called me to tell the that seal team six got osama bin laden, which i was grateful for.

he's not on a regular basis. which is ok. doesn't hurt my feelings. presidents rely on the people there close to. he has a team that he has grown close to and he relies upon the judgment and i understand that. host: that was former president thege w bush last week on fox news channel, discussing his interactions with the current president or lack thereof. our question, your confidence in the government response in the ebola situation? [phone ringing] host: we will try one more time. good morning, where are you from? caller: michigan. host: good morning, you are on

the air. go ahead. caller: every 90 minutes someone dies from a pain reliever in this country. how can we trust them on ebola? thank you. thank you for the call. the ebola situation, your confidence in the government response? we are getting your response to the situation. phone lines are open -- going to dig a short break and when we come back we will continue the conversation as we look more at midterm elections and what is selected to happen with keeping control of the house of representatives. later on we will have two polls on the house and senate races in andnsas and louisiana whether or not the republicans

have control of the u.s. senate. we will be back in a moment. ♪ >> monday night, jeremy grant, whose agency promotes internet security, talks about increasing security standards. is looking toent describe at a high-level level the attributes of what these .hings should look like let that be a guidepost to the industry to develop solutions. at the pilots that we have, some of them are smart which will, basically be used instead of a password. others use different types of

biometrics, fingerprints, voice recognition. not to say that every one of these is going to be the solution, or even the solution for everybody, but it is the kind of thing we are testing out. >> monday night, at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators." security is the number one priority. but we need to be thoughtful about our approach. number one, congress needs to debate this issue and and authorized force, fulfilling the constitutional responsibility. how much will it cost? the budget? the endgame? i don't think the correct response is to say that we need to infinitely put troops on the ground. >> my opponent called for economic sanctions against isis. how do you put economic sanctions against the non-nation state? perhaps we should write a harshly worded letter?

the issue is that isis is a danger and i think you need a three-pronged approach. theneed to shut down southern border. the southern border is no longer an immigration issue, it is a security and immigration threat. a nation that can build the panama canal in the 20th century can build a fence in the 21st. secondly, this will call for america to lead. you cannot control isis by air alone. in the words of the four-star general conway, there is a snowballs chance in hell that air operations will work, and i agree. secondly, limit the ground forces to special forces, to supply and support. make sure that the coalitions that we choose are watched and efficiently trained. limit our involvement but make sure that isi s is destroyed. >> how are we paying for this?

>> "washington journal" continues. >> turning our attention to the house, we have david watts -- "washington journal" continues. david wasserman is joining us. what are we looking at, one month out him the election? republicans are actually the ones who are expanding their majority in the cycle. we don't know if they will gain more seats in the house or senate. if you consider that our range of likely outcomes is a republican gain of between two seats and 12 seats, that doesn't sound very historic or like much of a shift in the house, especially when you consider that the republicans got it to

three in the last midterm. keep in mind the republicans are starting out with 234 seats this time, they were starting out with 170 84 years ago. at the high end of their range they could have had the largest majority since the election of herbert hoover. host: what have the democrats not done that they should have done? or is this just a situation we see every six years when a president is not on the ballot and his holidays are? to ever regain the majority, they would need to be moving their voters acting to republican leaning districts. keep in mind in 2012 democrats one 1.4 million more votes than republicans across the country, yet democrats- fell 34 seats short with clustering in the cities.

democrats are the more urban party and they are wasting a lot of votes super majority district , much of it having to do with the redrawing of the lines. you have republicans in charge of the redistricting process. that really, really created this vicious cycle for democrats going forward for the next 10 years. the other thing about that that they could use would be a republican president unpopular during a midterm. comparing with the landscape toks like today as opposed two years ago, there are a number of democrats in right-leaning districts -- not that many, but still enough for exposure. when you consider that a midterm electorate brings out a different photodynamic, bringing of older voters, whiter voters, wealthier voters, it gets more republican and limited -- in the

midterm anyways without any opinions having changed. there are democrats that are starting out underwater. host: when nancy pelosi is already looking at 2016 -- this --the headline from cnn.com what does that tell you about 2014? democrats are not necessarily talking with the same bravado that they might have had in 2012. they're looking to hold their that theya minimum so do have a shot at winning back enough seats to come close in 2016. i think it would be very difficult for democrats, even with 2016 dynamics, no matter what they are, for them to regain control of the house. of adshese are a couple

from this cycle -- what kind of race is tim bishop facing right now? he is facing off against someone that he beat in 2008. we have this race in the lead democratic column, but there is no question that outside are coming in and it is very competitive. let's watch.: a bad idea.it is >> you can't own a small business and have obamacare. >> he doesn't care about the suffering people. >> i don't even see the guy. >> egos from new york city the southampton. >> i wish that bishop could walk in my shoes for a day. >> the american action network is responsible for the content of this advertising. first of all, how often do

we hear about obamacare in these races? it all over,bout particularly on the republican side. that is basically the same version of the ads we are seeing across the country, except with new york accents. it's not uncommon for these outside groups to come in. one point about the spending thesee are seeing in races, democratic congressional campaign committees, the house campaign for their party and they have outraised republicans significantly in terms of their campaign. at the same time, the spending we have seen across these races has been relatively even between the sides because republicans have had groups like the american effort -- american action network coming in to spend quite a bit of money early on, neutralizing the perceived money advantage. so far we have counted that pro-democratic spending has been

million..2 republican spending is up to 35.8. when the margin is that close, democrats don't really have the money advantage. >> there were about two debates on this network this week -- tomorrow in the colorado fifth, romanoff is being challenged -- a guy thinking about running for the senate, decided to go for the house seat. they call this one a tossup in colorado. >> this is a big game in that state. we are seeing congressman mike kaufman, the republican who has been there for several terms, he really got away with one in 2012, a week democratic opponent in a good year for democrats. democrats made sure to get a good candidate this time, the

former house speaker. the problem is, if he had run two years ago he might be a congressman right now. now that he's running in a tougher cycle, he could fall just short. most of the polling we are seeing shows him up one point or two, within the margin of error but a competitive race. arizona, the seat previously held by gabby giffords, her longtime aide currently in the seat, but this has been listed as a true tossup. guest: that's right. this race is very personal. congressman ron barber, heard in the same shooting, took her seat in congress after she resigned in a special election, now running for reelection against martha mcfaul egg, one of the first female fighter pilots area you have a republican woman who portray sasol was a trailblazer.

gabrielle giffords and mark kelly have been going after her on the issue of guns. race involves a lot of personal dynamics and acrimony. in the last couple of weeks we have seen the ron barber numbers stabilize. we have seen negative ratings for her go up as a result of democrats hammering her on social security and medicare. this is one race where it is really close, it is a tossup, but democrats seem to have a bit more momentum. mcallister, he came out with an ad basically apologizing for his indiscretion . he is now running for reelection, it is an interesting dynamic in louisiana. because? >> louisiana has a weird system of elections. everyone runs on the same ballot, but it goe a