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but his play-by-play really kind of takes the cake. jon: and he liked the ride. he did better than sell adult i've seen on camera. jenna: we will see you back in an hour. jon: "outnumbered" starts right now. >> fox news alert, second american infected with the ebola virus is in the united states. aidis worker just arriving in atlanta on a specially outfitted private jet expected to be taken off the plane any moment before heading to emory university hospital, a british airways temporarily suspended flight to and from liberia and three lyo lyons. i am sandra smith and this is "outnumbered." bill hemmer joins us. thank you for joining us.
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nancy writebol is said to be in serious but stable condition. her colleague and fellow american is also being treated be at cnn national correspondent john roberts outside of emory university hospital in atlanta with the latest. john. >> a specially equipped aircraft landed about a half an hour ago, a bit of an unusual delay getting nancy writebol off the aircraft, i assume she is probably dawning one of those biocontainment suits. he was the first american evacuated back on saturday. mention her condition is serious but stable. she has always been in better condition. her husband, david, who will follow her back from liberia describe the condition yesterday as brightening somewhat from what had been before to get her
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appetite back, was enjoying her favorite meal which was iberian potato soup. so things are looking pretty good for her. it may be the reason they came back from death door is last week they both received a dose of experimental model antibody serum that at least for the doctor has saved his life so they will be coming here. he has been here now for almost three days now, they are expected to stay probably for several weeks because it will take time to defeat the infection and they want to monitor them to make sure they are clear of the virus. >> the mortality rate for the ebola virus is said to be 69%, but the doctor in charge of the unit at emory university hospital where the doctor is taken has said that is the mortality rate in developing nations. he said we have the ability to care for the patient at a much higher level here, which would bring mortality rate much
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different here in the united states. >> it could make a difference, there really is no proof of that, which is why having them here down the street from the cdc is as well as a clinical operation and enormous research opportunity as well because all the experience thus far has been in the field with conditions that are more primitive than what you would find here at emory. the people caring for the folks in west africa are offering the best care possible, but of course the science being what it is, the best in the world, they are able to be offered much more detailed and sophisticated. but at the moment that is all we can do because there is no vaccine for this, no cure.
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it is now being tried out on humans. >> it is interesting is how much of a difference america's making this scenario because this is not the first ebola outbreak on that continent. we do have some other concerns, people are afraid with this coming to our country. this guy in new york at mount sinai hospital who unlikely he would have ebola, but they are testing him to see because he recently traveled there. the man from tennessee quarantined himself because he just recently came back and his daughter picked him up at the airport with concerns, they are watching him as well. that hospital where you are now has said there are only so many patients they can deal with, what is the latest on if it grows and what they can handle. >> the chance of this growing is very slim.
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the cdc told me that have half a dozen of these incidences in recent weeks, all of them have turned out to be relative. they have no known risk factors, no contact with anybody, in proximity to anyone who had ebola. people in the cdc scratching their head why they went to the level they did yesterday of having a press conference. our containment abilities, abilities to deal with infectious substances much greater than they are in africa. white spreads like wildfire in africa is because people in these villages in africa are very skeptical about the hospital. people go in and don't come out, so they can be in contact with many other people. the center for disease control said we know how to stop the virus, containing people and treating the procedures, where
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you get all of that in place, the virus dies out very quickly. they kill their patients so quickly, they kill the host so quickly, that is why the center for disease control is sending 50 team members over the next month and to west africa to ramp up efforts to get control of this. if you can stop it on the continent, you can stop it from coming here. jenna: when you have the second american home and receiving ca care. i want to get your reaction to all of this, what do you make of it? >> if you are the two americans, you want to come home, you want to get on the medical hospital and come back to atlanta, georgia. we have never had a recorded case of ebola in the country's history. there is a little bit of anxiety over this because we have not seen it before.
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right now in western africa a case of cholera, multiplying exponentially by the day. we don't even think about that area did why is that? ebola scares us for a good reason because the end result is death. >> the one thing is the first line of defense is going to be the flight attendant. looking out for these symptoms iand that part of the world. that is a huge task, given the safety video to looking out for ebola, that is a huge task. >> i think when people hear ebola, they're more concerned than when they hear the cancer. the infectious nature and the fact a lot of people read that
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book. the nephew of god into them. >> it is important to not blow this out of proportion. very important, sandra, as he pointed out to talk the differences between how people are treated in africa and how they're treated, a context of why people die more in africa than the united states. it makes a huge difference dealing with the treatment of a disease we don't know a lot about. i think you have to be careful about being a little overreactive. jon: they were in remission, so this stuff works previously only tested on monkeys. that is one thing to think abo about. the other thing is the government is right across the street from emory hospital. the cdc. they are learning so much from this now, the fact would robert said, 50 more scientists in route to west africa tells me
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they want more information about this. >> we're going to step up. that is an amazing role we play in this. >> it is taking place in the united states. we will bring you more at developments occur. blast in the announcement it is closing three emergency shelters. housing illegal children. as they have reported past the 60,000 mark and will likely climb to 90,000. the representative of oklahoma whose state is home to one of these shelters telling fox he found out about the closures like anybody else. >> i heard about it today through the media. this is a standard procedure of this administration. extremely concerned about controlling this message specifically because of the crisis that is the southern
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border and horrific stories of these children and where ultimately the children are being released. >> the white house finding itself on the defensive on immigration and why the president is saying he has to act now on immigration after all this time in office. as we see in this exchange between ed henry and josh earnest. >> why didn't the president take executiveffective action back i, 2012101 house democrats did? >> he was committed to working through congress. this is evidence he has been very efficient. >> the first two years of this thadministration the president vowed in 2008 by the end of my first year in congress we will pass universal health care. >> there were a lot of things on the president plate. >> he has life going on now, right? >> the crisis in 2009f related to the financial system, that
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was understandably the focal point of congressional activity, but also a lot of activity at the white house. >> you have a house, senate and white house, why didn't we focus on solving immigration problems? >> there were a lot of other crises, and what we are focused on now is trying to find solutions, bipartisan solutions to a problem that a wide variety, wide majority of americans acknowledge exists. >> making josh earnest earn his bid. one more time. i still don't think i heard an answer. the congressmen, what a point he is making. the hear from the white house directly they get information and the president gets information from the media, now we're learning they related information through the media as well as.
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last night on "special report" says it is bogus the president has to act alone. saying house republicans have acted by pass legislation last week and democrats in the senate are doing nothing right now. >> i don't know the president is going to do. what i do understand is when you patrol the border, you have border patrol. on with us a couple of days ago, and he said since they have enacted the border patrol greatest moves, there is a 60-mile stretch, texas has 1200 miles border shares with mexico, it is massive. the 60-mile stretch where most of the illegals were, no cross has been cut in half in the past 10 -- that is because texas did what they did.
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the point is border patrol wor works. i would you think the president does? >> i think he has a lot of big decisions to make. i am not sure what he is going to do. you talk about the agents, there is only so far he can go not enforcing the law.5a i think on the issue of them being shut down, military facilities should have been used in the first place to house illegal immigrants. the question is where are they going? they are going to their parents who have been living illegally in the united states. this is i a devout unaccompanied minors over the border. did you know family units, the number of family units coming across the border has increased by 438%? 50,000 have come across in 2014, last year something like 6000.
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on the issue of the president, he is using the border crisis to his advantage by calling for comprehensive immigration reform and announcing he is going to go at it alone with two separate issues. he is trying to exploit this and pander to his far left radical open borders base and that is a problem because that will not solve a problem on the border be at >> you mentioned the 1200 miles texas has over 1900 that is a huge percentage texas has to protect. it still baffles me and i ask why not give the kind of national guard support to the governor he has been asking for. >> adopt the best practices, do something. that kind of leadership should come from the commander in chi chief. the possibility of calm on the horizon. agreeing to a cease-fire after a month of violence. the next step in the effort to
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and find out more about our two-year price guarantee. comcast business. built for business. >> and a fox news alert now on the situation we have been watching unfold in atlanta, the woman on my right, the right of your screen has come in with ebola and will be treated at the hospital in atlanta where she is going. nancy writebol is here, still inside the military plane at that airbase where they have landed, she has yet to be board and may need medical assistance
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to do that. the first was able to walk on his own accord and walk to the ambulance kandahar that may not be the case for nancy writebol. a couple of things to tell you about, there is a news conference planned in exactly an hour, about 30 minutes from now they will be forming a news conference, not the university or the hospital officials will be hosting it, we are told that is the corporation nancy writebol worked for, that is why she was in west africa working, now she is coming home. for told she is in stable condition, given the rather mystery drug because it is the first time this excremental drug has been used on humans. they seem to be doing better. we're watching the situation, once she emerges from that flight on the ground, we will take you there live in atlanta. but for now we will move on. a three-day cease-fire in effect between israel and hamas.
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people are venturing out. israel announced it has withdrawn the ground forces while hamas will engage in talks in egypt to form a lasting peace agreement at this point. forces in gaza say they found this, and manual on urban warfare explaining how civilians can be used as human shields. if we had a question of what they have been telling us they thought as they moved in people put in hospitals and schools could be used, now we're getting the answer on the blueprints they may be used. >> the number of rockets that have been smuggled the past five, 80 years maybe. at the minimum, it is 9000. coming from iran, syria, how did they get there? and now we know. there is a little town near the border with egypt, that is where you cross into, and the
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cease-fire went into effect a day ago, one part of the gaza strip where it will continue, now why is that? one can conclude their art deep tunnels and that is where the rockets have been, in the past several years. an extraordinary number which about 3500 have been fired into israel the past month. the tunnels, how many are there? israel did not know how many tunnels were in gaza before this started getting a thing 35-40 which they had destroyed 50% of them, that is what this operation was all about. looking for a reason to take this stuff out. >> how does it work if it is 50%? at some point they will rise up again unless you have a stable situation like a d military life zone. >> let's talk about the politics of this.
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there are some arguments you can almost do it in the southern border doing with illegal the politics have got us here. >> look at who you are dealing with your. they have every right to defend its people. who initiated this, i'm not going to debate the merit of who has better rockets. israel is under attack, they have to do something to protect their people, they are willing to compromise, they were willing to honor cease-fire. so they need to go ahead and say if we are going to have a meaningful long-term result, you have to have a demilitarized zone, compliance on the other side. i am pessimistic. >> one thing they're going to have to do if you want a long-term peace process is they have to rid themselves and their
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government. in charge of the government, that is a huge part of the problem. 50% of the job is still left to do. i could be part of the deal with history allowed to come in and destroy these tunnels in a way that is humane keeping civilians away from them. >> we saw last night how sophisticated these tunnels far. i love the point about that earlier. one of the hardest parts to talk about this story and not be on the ground because such different perspectives. we saw the condemnation of united states and israel for the weekend. speculation the united states is distancing itself, at this point in the game where do you think our relations are with israel?
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>> i don't think it was very good from the first day. the more relative is hamas. it is isolated in the way it doesn't understand. the egyptian government is not supported. that is why you see money and support coming in from the country. >> and he was a strong one. >> for the most part hamas has been isolated and that is why they could be driven to the table for the cease-fire. >> you have coming from the top of hamas last night and during yesterday saying the jewish people have done this. he was not quite that kind with his words but he said blaming them for bloodshed in the past and what they put in their religious soup.
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it is not likely the two sides are ever going to like each other. >> in the summer of 2006, just seeing it first hand you can see what happens with the two front war. weapons were not nearly as sophisticated as they are now. there's a lot of terror in the country and a lot of fear when this stuff happens and it will happen again. the question ultimately i believe is this. if israel loses the war, what does the united states do instead? >> we will definitely come back to that topic throughout the week. i want to toggle back now to breaking news because this does change everything. this is atlanta, and nancy writebol coming from west africa now on an ambulance. they're helping with the support of the specially engaged staff
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they will be able to protect everybody else around her helping her get better from this disease which people don't often survive. >> this hospital is very confident they can handle this. >> the news conference coming up at 2:00 p.m. eastern. take a look. @"
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>> fox news alert. you are seeing live pictures of the ambulance carrying nancy writebol, the american missionary who contracted the ebola virus while doing missionary work in liberia with her husband. she is in the ambulance. she landed in atlanta. she is on her way to emory university hospital for treatment. there will be a news conference that will take place at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. the american missionary organization that nancy writebol represented in liberia will be granting that news conference. we will bring you all the very
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latest as that ambulance continues to make its way to emory university hospital. >> welcome back to "outnumbered" a former white house spokesman writing a lengthy piece for "rolling stone" magazine. he chronicles what the headline calls the president's toxic relationship with the press from the first campaign to the present. he says the white house simply doesn't trust media and those journalists feel persecuted. these feelings feed off each other creating a vicious cycle. turlin writes, the administration and press are he can talking past each other as each decries treatment of each other. white house suggest that reporters intentionally sensationalize its stories and reporters argue that the white house plays with the facts to get its mess out. both suspicions are correct. tapping phone lines and reading emails. the whole point of the press corp. is to take a lard look at
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the white house, right? -- press corps. this white house complains about everything including reporters doing their job. >> when did the people leading greatest country in the free world get so thin skinned? how does that happen? who is beating up on this president so badly accept do anything but call us filter. by the way, we're not the filter. what is that? that is what you have on your air-conditioning unit. >> toxic -- >> this administration wants and has shown they don't want the press to be getting their message out. they have used other forms of media to get their thoughts out and talking points. >> they get their news from us, the white house. that is what they said. >> we're so good at our jobs they get all the news from us. sandra, this is issue we've seen over and over again. "politico" magazine did a survey showing many people covering the white house actually reported they were cursed at by white house spokespeople about their stories are often come explained b how is it the white house continues to
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complain especially, press corps that is very sympathetic to president obama's policies. >> one of the biggest problems the media has had with this administration they were initially promised so much transparency. this will be the most transparent administration ever in the white house. and so they really set everybody up for a load of information and we sort of didn't get it. bill hemmer is sitting here. awfully quiet through this conversation. >> you think? i think transparency was blown when swearing in happened two times in january '09. two things. every administration tries to control their message. that is kind of their job, right? as far as the toxic relationship with the press, i was watched friday afternoon when the reporters were asking, i think it was very toxic. i thought it was comfortable. >> chummy? >> on friday afternoon, i thought it was very comfortable on behalf of the president and press corps. as far as toxic i'm not so sure. >> honestly, he would have
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rougher time if he was student body president, okay? there would be more questions. might get after him a little bit. he has had a glorious run at it, hasn't he in my goodness, have they given him kind of an easy ride. he hasn't had easy things to deal with but they haven't made his job difficult. jon: see what happens after november. let's see what happens with the balance of power. we'll see what we've got ahead for the remaining two years. you know, sometimes in a lot of ways, if you're dealing with congress and don't have majority in the senate, then you are forced to face this stuff an wheel and deal or veto. we'll see. >> it is interesting. the press hasn't even pressed, you have all these african leaders are you talking on ebola? one from our own producer in d.c. what we've been told he will probably likely stay on message with the economy. >> president clinton kicked it off. someone ask him that question. >> my goodness, gracious. he needs another hug. >> bill or the president? >> massive attack at nato base
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killing at least one american, a major general. latest details on the suspect who opened fire on our troops. a separate attack, apparent assassination attempt on the frontrunner in the afghanistan elections. just you...with the great facial hair. when gray creeps in do you lose it all? not you. new touch of gray mustache and beard reduces gray without getting rid of it all in just 5 minutes. for the perfect gray look you want. new touch of gray mustache and beard.
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>> our troops under attack in afghanistan. now a news conference pops up from the pentagon. let's watch.
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>> national defense university, which is akin to sort of their officers academy, but would i point you to isaf for the exact details. i don't know. it was a routine site visit how i understand it but again the circumstances surrounding how -- >> [inaudible] >> by, no, by, by the general and other coalition staff members. and as i said, at the you'd outset, maybe i didn't make this clear enough, not all of the cash all thes are americans -- casualties are americans, so there were other coalition members that fell victim to this shooting. as i understand it, it was a coalition, an isaf site visit to the university. i really don't have anymore details than that about how long they had been there, what were they looking at. i just don't know. yeah, jim. >> thank you, admiral kirby. i'm told this was a vetted soldier who had gone through a very serious vetting process for afghan troops, particularly at facility like this. does this in your view
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identified weaknesses in the vetting process? i wonder bigger picture, we're months away from afghan, from the u.s. handing over security responsibility for afghanistan to afghan forces like these. does this undermine your confidence in their ability to take over the role. >> great questions, jim. first, too soon to tell what this means for the vetting process. again we believe this individual was a member of the afghan national security forces. we will let the investigation proceed to figure out exactly who this was before we can leap to any conclusions about the vetting process. on your second question, i would say, general dunford mentioned this in his discussion with the secretary today, the afghan national security forces continue to perform at a very strong level of competence and confidence and in warfare capability. they have had a good year securing not one, but two national elections and stopping
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or minimizing impact of countless numbers attacks through the the country, even in kabul. so this is a security force that we believe grows stronger by the week and they are already in the lead in combat missions throughout the country. they will be completely in the lead for military operations by end of the year. we see no change in that. no degradation of that progress. >> i hear this is not the first time you've had green on blue attacks like this one. i just wonder if this you know mines the trust that coalition forces, particularly u.s. forces have in their afghan colleagues in the months remaining before they leave the country? >> i have seen no indication that there's a degradation of trust between coalition members and their afghan counterparts. i, and i would encourage you to certainly speak to folks that are over there in afghanistan. i'm not. i understand i'm here in the pentagon but every indication that i've seen is that the partnering and the cooperation just, you know, it gets better
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and better every week. and i think again, that is borne in, borne out in the performance that we've seen out of afghan national security forces. >> admiral, after a spate of these green on blue insider attacks several years ago in afghanistan, the u.s. military instituted several security precautions, several additional security conditions. do you know if any of these precautions were in place during this meeting, or was it considered so safe that they didn't feel the necessity to undertake those additional security procedures? >> we, you're right, jim. isaf did institute some measures to help mitigate the threat, not eliminate but help mitigate it. as i understand it some of those measures were in effect but i would point you to isaf for further details on that. again all this is going to be looked at in the investigation. >> you said not eliminate. why can't you eliminate that threat.
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>> i think it's, i think we've been very honest that the insider threat is probably, it's, it's, it's a pernicious threat and it's difficult to always ascertain. to come to grips with the scope of it anywhere you are, particularly in a place like afghanistan. so, and afghanistan is still a war zone. so it's impossible to eliminate completely eliminate that threat i think particularly in a place like afghanistan but you can work hard to mitigate it and minimize it and isaf has done that. and i would, as terrible as today is, and it is a, it is a terrible day, a terrible tragedy, we haven't seen, in the course of last year or so, the as you described it, a spate of these insider threat attacks. and i think, that's testament to the good work that authorities have done in isaf to try to
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mitigate that threat. >> if i may, can you give us any details about the incident itself? was it indoors? were they meeting? were they out reviewing the troops? do you have any further details about exactly how this went down? >> i wouldn't go any further than what i went to bob's question. as i understand it, it was a site visit to the university by coalition members and again i just don't have, i just don't have the details and i wouldn't want to speculate right now. >> [inaudible] >> i do not. john. >> was the shooter killed by american troops or afghan troops, do you have any idea? >> i just know that he was killed and in the process of the attack. i don't have details exactly who did it. missy? >> -- put on death of american general officer in context, is this the highest ranking death of an american soldier in afghanistan? beginning of the war since a certain period? can you help us contextualize it that way? >> i'm loathe to make a
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historical statement now because i don't have the history of all casualties over last 13 years. clearly if not, certainly one of the highest ranking deaths in, in the war since 9/11. as you probably know. in the attack on the building on september 11th, two 2001, a three-star army general, head of their personnel branch was kid in the building. i believe. we can try to do the research on this but i believe this would be the highest ranking death since then. >> [inaudible]. >> certainly do that. also point you to army on this as well. i mean it's, we'll do what we can to try to help you with that but i don't have that granularity of detail right now. yaw, phil. >> does this incident mean this department and washington generally need to look at way forward in terms of afghanistan and drawdown and makeup of troops that will be sent there for more force protection or continue to guard against these
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insider attacks. >> the investigation is just now getting underway so i will not speculate what we may or may not find. i don't see any impact to the current plans to draw down our forces in afghanistan and to further support the resolute support mission next year. what is contingent upon our ability to execute that mission is getting bilateral security agreement signed which we still don't have. yeah? >> [inaudible]. officers receiving extra security or their movements restricted because of this. >> point you to isaf for that. no idea. helene? >> -- highest ranking officer in the room do you have any reason to believe he started it. >> your question presumes it was in a room and i will not talk about specifics -- >> [inaudible] >> i do not know. i do not know. >> what about, sorry -- >> another part of her question? >> targeted for after or random?
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>> that gets to the circumstances under investigation. i don't have that level of detail and i wouldn't speculate at this time. tony? >> in 2012 when general dunford was up for his isaf nomination, insider attacks were the major news story out of the region in terms of, there were like 25 to 30 last year. last year they dropped to like 13 or 14. >> right. >> according to your 1260 report. can you find out from isaf january through now how many insider attacks there were for perspective? i don't expect you to know that. >> we'll take it for the record, tony. >> another part of the world iraq, in an op-ed to the "washington post" said the united states is directly not supporting the kurds, supporting airstrikes from iraq against isil and in support of the kurd and helping the kurds with military assistance including munitions. do you have any insight into that? >> i can tell you that the
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defense department is, let me tell you what we are doing. we continue to provide our coverage over the country. we continue to man and resource those two joint operation centers, one inner bill and one in baghdad. we have assessment teams remain on the ground and continue to provide observations. military assistance we provide iraqi security forces have gone through the iraqi government. that support include the hellfire missiles we talked about before. that's the limit that i can speak to about defense department support. >> [inaudible]. she said united states has reacted to isil advances by authorizing direct applied munitions to the kurds and with baghdad's agreement shipment of some fms weapons programs to the kurd. it is also coordinating iraq air attacks against isil targets relevant to the defense of the kurdish region. >> we're not coordinating air attacks in iraq. we're not. >> is there another u.s. agency
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providing>> i talked about, i td about what we're doing. >> we've been watching this news conference at the pentagon. clearly they have mod on to another subject but where this started with the very difficult story we learned today, something that happened in afghanistan. troops coming under attack in what they're calling green on blue crime. where you have insider attack and among those killed and or wounded because there were 14 or 15 wounded we know, but among those killed is a two-star american general. as we look at the situation, bill hemmer, we are due to pull out completely in terms of combat troops in a little less than six months from now. we've got elections that they have been trying to hold in that part of the world. some of them fraught with difficulty but they have been able to hold them. >> i think about the families in this country who have their own family members deployed in afghanistan. this has to be the greatest fear that you have. >> yeah. >> you're trying to bring along
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the afghan police and afghan army. we saw it in iraq. we saw it back in days of vietnam when you can't identify the enemy, it is a very, very dangerous place to be. this base is east of kabul. there were 200 positions available for afghans to apply for a job. >> right. >> you know how many people applied? 10,000 afghan men applied for 200 jobs. >> how do you vet then. >> i think that is the important thing here. in a lot of these green on blue cases you will find that there was a lot of warnings from soldiers who are working with these guys in afghani forces, in police forces, this guy will do something bad. he is not responsible. something will happen here. they warn and warn and then something like this happens and it happens repeatedly because politically incorrect to say that they're not comfortable working with certain people who are hired to work in the military. >> sound like for thehood,
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texas. >> sounds like major nadal has san. were there any warnings or aberrant behavior they should have picked up on. >> it has been very busy news hour. we're going to the story at top of the hour. there you see the ambulance on the right-hand side of the your screen, nancy writebol is leaving or landed at the airbase from west africa. they are about a minute away from emory university hospital in a news conference at beginning of hour we'll pay close attention to on fox news channel. right now that ambulance speeding away as you can see to emory university. her company she worked for, si c-corp. she was a missionary in africa. we hope to learn more about her medical condition and experimental drug that she has been given only two americans that have come home and gotten and shown so much miraculous
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improvement for lack of a better word because we haven't seen it before with ebola. stay close. ... ... .... ... ... ... ... this is bill.
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stricken with ebola in west africa home, back to the united states. she landed in a military plane a couple of hours ago and now they have made their way from that airbase to emory university hospital and we've yet to see them kind of come out of that ambulance but they have just pulled up as we were in the commercial break. that is nancy writebol, she was a missionary working in west africa. the company which she works is sim corp. they are expected to, in the next hour, give a news conference from that same location, emory university. so on the campus but not right they are expected in the next few hours to give a new's conference. they will be filling us in on her journey home and let's watch this. this is bill, a different scene than what we saw with the good samaritan. he was able to walk and now saw. but we're understanding that her medical condition has been
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improving over the last couple of days since she received that experimental treatment. that she is in stable condition. it is good news to see her home. we will continue to follow this and tell you what happens next with all of this. but -- >> she is one lucky gal, right, to get that kind of treatment? flown home from west africa. >> absolutely. they both are. they both are. now we have both of these people home. doctors say this is so important in terms of learning how to deal with this disease, ebola, that has such a high kill rate. this human use of this experimental drug now. we are watching basically a medical miracle. you hear it, it is so cliche but we're watching it happen now. as we look at atlanta, of course there is some fear across the country as people come home with this, should this be the thing that we're doing. they're americans. back on the soil. we do know of other potential cases that people have talked about, outside of this country but now, these two americans are home. at least four countries in west africa are dealing with ebola,
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this huge outbreak. nearly a thousand people have died from it. people usually do not survive the ebola virus. it is a high stage virus identified bit cdc and now two americans home. this video is just from a few minutes ago as we were in commercial break. that ambulance was pulling into emory university hospital and going down that ramp there as we just showed you, it would settle in beneath the trees and they took her out on the stretcher. but nancy writebol is home and now with stable care. >> there will also be a news conference hour from now at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. her missionary organization will be issuing one. look, we heard her condition is improving. bill, her appetite apparently has increased of so some sort of promising situation here but still there is a lot of hesitancy a lot of criticism for the move to bring the patients back. >> how deadly ebola can be. they were treating patients in
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africa and with full-on medical gear and still infected through the gear they were wearing. but she is very lucky to be with the organization she's with. we'll see whether or not her condition improves dramatically now that she is at emory. the fellow who came home over the weekend walked out of his ambulance. that certainly was a great sign to see that. i think one thing you have to look out for in the coming days and weeks, if the story continues at the current pace it is, you have to control the fear in america. >> exactly. >> so you're not scaring people. >> context is very important when it comes to the kind of treatment you do get in west africa and kind of treatment she and this other doctor will be receiving in atlanta. there is a huge difference between the type of treatment, the types of people who will be treating them, types of treatment that will be available for them here. level of comfort that will be available for them here. there is a very big difference between the two. i think it is important that context is there considering, you know, we have more resources here and more sanitary resources to deal with this issue. which is a big part of why i'm
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sure they brought them home. >> step one, walking into the hospital can help improve your chances and as we heard in the report earlier from john roberts, so many west after from cans, worried, nervous going into the hospital. they say people go in. they don't come out. a lot of fear there. there has to be education, some awareness and increase the comfort level. >> listen, we've seen that already whether here in new york at cedars-sinai or report we're seeing out of columbus, ohio. who knows if they're legitimate who knows if there are gitimate legitimate cases or not. but we can say what is on people's minds. wow, could it happen to me? and that is the fear you must control. and what we are seeing playing on a stretcher, in atlanta. what is so different, they come home and watch the treatment, if there are other americans abroad, who become sick and have to come home. we're now seeing our capacity or
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potential to save lives. that is an amazing thing to watch. we'll stay on the story as it happens on fox news channel that. will do it for "outnumbered." let's get right away to "happening now." [ outnumbered. we'll get right away to happening now. >> continuing this fox news alert. the woman on the right of the screen. nancy wrightbol, second american infected with the ebola virus brought toes atlanta. it is a special containment unit where a highly contagious disease and where they will continue to try to treat her for the ebola virus. it killed nearly 800 people in africa she treated people who were infected and she's back

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