there's not one way to do something. no details too small. american express open forum. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. rachel has the night off and we will be hearing from her later in the hour, so stick around for that. congress on its 54th day of vacation, and today members went to dallas fort worth international airport. it was a field hearing. there was a field hearing today and it's because of ebola. it comes a day after the direct tur of the centers for disease control said something about ebola that made anybody paying

attention to ebola stop in there tracks. this is the foremost medical expert in america had this to say. >> in the 30 years i have been working in public health, the only thing like this has been aids. >> we have to work now so this ebola virus, so this is not the world a next aids. that was yesterday. this was today at the house field hearing on ebola. >> now is not the time for politics. congress has been slow to get anything done this session and if there is a time to come together and put everything aside, it's now. we must make sure proceeded cal protocols are put in place. >> it was about trying to come up with solutions to ebola, and

communication, and working together towards a common goal. that sort of thing. but the mood at the hearing was fear. members of congress asking health officials over and over why can't we just close our borders to ebola? why isn't it that simple? >> many of my constituents and americans are asking the question, why aren't we banning all flights from west africa into the united states. >> if we were treating this as a public health issue why wouldn't we stop these flights? >> why not prohibition on civilian travel, if you are there don't coupling here, why not? >> disease outbreak in liberia, it's now at a point where we may be able to stop it. in order to stop it, we need uninhibited transit into and out

of the country so we can bring the resources there to bare what is needed and to stop it. if we don't do that, the disease will grow exponentially by delaying stopping the epidemic, and you create a larger epidemic impossible to control. >> the details of the disease, the images related the ebola, what we see and hear about this disease, all of those things are terrifying. the media coverage is all encompassing, and remember, the risk to us as americans of contracting ebola is tiny, but logic, unfortunately, does not mix that well with politics. in the face of all the obvious and understandable concerns that americans have right now, in the

face of all the serious bert reassuring information that medical experts are putting out there, in the face of all of that, we still have politicians running for office in trying to get elected by stoking and channeling that fear. at a debate in north carolina last night a. republican insisted we need to quote, seal the boder and secure it to prevent the spread of ebola, and another said there should be a ban on all flights in west africa. it's not just republicans who are doing this either. this week a group of tkedemocra and republican members wrote a letter to president obama asking him to ban any travel to and from the western african countries affected by ebola, and they did this even though the cdc said repeatedly it's not an

unnecessarily step to take and it's also in his words a wrong step to take, and that's the approach reveprevailing right n. here is what we are doing. the cameraman working for nbc remains in isolation at an omaha hospital and has been given an experimental antiviral drug and his condition has improved slightly and doctors remain cautionly optimistic. and passengers arriving from that area will be screened for symptoms from that jfk airport, and other airports will be implementing that same process, with the hope of legislative action coming from congress, believe it or not, after refusing to lift his hold on the funding for the pen the gone to send troops to west africa to

combat the crisis, the senator, a republican of oklahoma, today had a change of heart and now he will allow that funding to go through. in dallas, the first patient diagnosed with ebola on american soil was treated and the texas department of the of health services is investigating the hospital where he was treated and his death is included in the world health organizations new estimate of people that died of ebola thus far, and that number is 4,033 worldwide deaths from ebola. also in dallas, the sheriff deputy that entered the apartment where duncan was staying was admitted to the hospital fearing we contracted the virus and we learned last night that he does not have ebola. he spoke to reporters today and he described the most frightening moment this week and that was the moment where he and

the nurses treated him knew they may be dealing with something serious, and it was the moment he found out he had a fever. >> i was in fear where i was in the capsule kwraeut eight. when i heard 101.7, and i wondered if my ticket had been punched and if it was time. >> he knew the nurses at the hospital, that a favor of 101.5 may be cause for alarm in a situation like this. the fever was key and everybody knew it in treating this patient. it was not the case when it came to thomas eric duncan. we knew the first time he went to texas health press bough

tearen hospital. he knew he had just come from liberia, and despite telling them that he was sent home with antibiotics. today we learn in addition to all of the other factors that should have served as flashing red light warning signs to hospital staff, we learn today that thomas eric duncan also had a fever of 103 degrees, and in a aaddition to everything, he was sent home and told to take tylenol. these records are more than 1400 pages long. they raise the question, what else are we going to learn about his diagnosis and treatment and about his death and being sent home despite a 103-degree temperature. if it contributed to his death, what happens then? joining us now, our guest,

thanks for joining us. let me start with the most obvious question here, i think, and that is what is the explanation for this? is the hospital putting forward an exspalation of how they could have a patient who they know came over from west africa and they have a 103-degree temperature and they send him home, is there any explanation for that? >> at this point the hospital is saying they are reviewing the decisions made in the case of thomas eric duncan, but they have not yet returned our calls seeking explanation and comment on the specific decision to release mr. duncan after he reached a fever point of 103 degrees. >> so the family -- we're finding this out because the family is putting these records out, 1,400 pages of his medical records, and does the family

believe he was treated different than the american patients with ebola have been or would be? >> yes, the family is fairly convinc convinced, that because of mr. duncan's race and the fact that he came from africa and had no insurance when he first appeared at the hospital that he was treated not equally to the white ebola patients who have so far survived this disease. they think it's conspicuous that the only black ebola patient in the u.s. to date did die. >> have they said anything about what he was saying, what he might have been telling them or people around him in the days in between when he was sent back from the hospital initially and when he wept back into the hospital? have they said anything more about his state of mind or anything like that? >> well, they say that he really had not anticipated that he might have ebola, that he would not have come to the u.s. and

potentially endangered the woman he planned to marry, his children, his extended family if he knew he had ebola, so they claim that he was fairly surprised by the progression of events, but, of course, in the final days he was sedated, so they didn't get very much information from him ultimately. >> right, and as you say, 1,400 pages here, you have learned anything more, anything new and revealing from the 1,400 pages of records? >> we found in the first visit, the triage nurse that saw him noted he had come from africa. it's not specificed that he came from liberia, but still that he had come from africa and arrived with abdominal pain and nausea and dizziness and a severe

headache, and all of these are signs that he could have ebola, and yet ebola was not mentioned at all or considered, at least according to the records that we have until the second visit. so we found it a bit surprising, again, that he was discharged after having a 103-degree temperature, and with the knowledge of at least some of the medical professionals there that he had come from africa and could possibly have this disease. >> the more we are learning about what was going on with this hospitalization and there are more questions being raised. thank you for your time tonight. we really appreciate that. >> thank you. lots more ahead in the show tonight including how red state republicans are finding themselves threatened by a challenge, and we will hear from a popular msnbc host named

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redder during the president obama presidency. if you look at his approval rating in kentucky right now it sits at just 31%, and that's ten points worse than he is doing natalionall nationally. all of that is worth keeping in mind as you watch this. >> did you vote for president obama 2008, 2012? >> you know, this election is not about the president. it's about making sure you put kentuckians back to work. >> did you vote for him? >> i was a delegate for hillary clinton, and i am a clinton tkepl through and through. >> so you are not going to answer? >> again, i don't think the president is on the ballot as much as mitch mcconnell might want him to be, it's my name. >> that's alison grimes, the

democratic candidate for senate in kentucky, and that was add a editorial board meeting on thursday, and she has a real chance of winning that race, after all, mcconnell is not that popular in kentucky so he is vulnerable in this case and it's a close race right now, but the entire mcconnell strategy is this, she belongs to the same party as president obama, and if you don't like president obama, then why would you vote for her? so that's where that incredibly awkward video clip comes from, grimes is a democrat running in a red state, and he is trying to link her into president obama directly, so she is asked in that board meeting a simple question, did you vote for president obama, she is asked that question thre times, and instead of answering it, she decided that all of that awkward

and painful bobbing and weaving was better than saying, yeah, i did. in a way, this is the story of 2014. in a way, this is the story of american politics today. why it's so polarized and why there is such gridlock and why not ever seems to get done. think of the video of grimes in kentucky, a democratic candidate in a red state thinks it's suicidal to say you cast a ballot for president obama. and the battleground states are where president obama lost in 2012 and is more unpopular now. that's the way the map happened to work out this year. there are seven democratic seats in the senate up this year in states mitt romney won in 2012 and he won big in 2012, and these are some of the reddest states in the country alaska,

and arkansas, and these are seven states with a democrat running, and they would squirm just as painfully and awkwardly if they were confronted with the same question grimes got. that's why it looked like a lot of the year the democrats are going to lose the senate, because for democrats to hang on to it, they are going to have to put up wins in red states, or are they? because if democrats having to win red states was the story for most of this year, now all of a sudden there is a new story, and take kansas, it's as red a state as they can. romney won it by 22 points. has not elected a democrat to the senate in 84 years, and was not on anybody's radar until the democratic candidate dropped out, and then that left roberts

against ormanning there. what has happened in kansas has totally and completely blown up the republican party's 2014 playbook. all year they assumed that any republican name on the ballot in a state like kansas would win in november, and they knew pat roberts was not popular and they knew roberts moved far to the right to protect himself from a primary challenge and none of that worried them because it's not like kansas voters were not going to turn around and vote for a democrat, but that's the genius politically speaking of what greg orman is doing as a candidate, because he is not a democrat. all of a sudden, those that don't like roberts or president obama, they can vote for somebody who is not pat roberts or in president obama's party. democrats are betting orman, if he does win, will caucus with them, it will give a vote to

give democrats control of the senate. democrats are taking a chance here. but they have also put kansas, kansas of all states n. play, and that was something that nobody saw coming. the same thing may be happening right now in south dakota, another deeply red state. voters don't like the republican candidate, and they obviously are not too happy with president obama, again, it's south dakota, but they have a third choice in this race, an independent candidate, a former republican who left the party because he said it got too extreme, and now he is running in second place in that race, and democrats are suddenly pouring money into south dakota and that race, and not only to help their own party's candidate but to tear down the republican, and they are betting that larry press lure can win the race, and if he does win the race, he will vote with them to control the senate. the question is whether this is the start of something bigger in american politics, something

that might -- might blow that the paralysis in washington. will we start to see in this other red states where the republican party has moved far to the right and voters are uneasy with that and the same voters don't want to vote for democrats? what happens if democrats in those states do what we are seeing in kansas and south dakota? what if they make common cause with independent candidates, and candidates not scared of answering the same basic question that tripped up grimes in kentucky, and candidates that could win in red states but might turn around and help democrats get control of the senate? is this the way, maybe, to get around the gridlock and paralysis that everybody hates in washington right now? joining us now to talk about it is the senior political reporter, barry. kansas, south dakota, a month ago or two month ago, kansas has been a few weeks, but two phpmos

ago, it's not necessarily because of democratic candidates in either state, is this something that we might be seeing maybe in 2016 in a lot more states? >> i think so steve. this is really fascinating. you tended to think of third parties in terms of ross perot in the 1990s running for president, and michael bloomberg running for president last time or in 2008, and the key thing is it's hard to get on the ballot in these states and it's hard to raise money for a presidential campaign and the system is there set up for two parties, and kansas, south dakota, they have small populations. can you spend $1 million in south dakota, and it's a huge amount of money and make a big difference, so there is a model here both for red states and probably blue states, too, where you can go in and support the independent candidate and that could shake things newspaper a way you couldn't do in a presidential level. >> i was looking at this today

and it turns out it looks like we have only -- the most independents who served at one time in the u.s. senate is two, and that almost happened but two is the most, we have two right now. we could have four when this election is over, presslor in south carolina, and the other three, and they are similar in what they say in the moves they make. if you have three independents like that in the senate at one time, do we have sense of what will happen in the senate then? >> they have not said what they want to do because they have not talked about it, but you have three people who will determine who has control of the senate, and they may want to run committees a certain way, because you will have a lot of power, and orman said he will join whichever party has the majori majority, and if he can shape the majority he can shape what

it does as well, and orman and presslor will decide i will not join a party at all, and they will choose how they will vote each time, and you can imagine, 49 democrats and 49 republicans and two people on the side, and those people have a huge sway in who might get appointed attorney general, for instance. >> and the grimes thing got me thinking about this, you could see the political terror in her motivations and she clearly thinks the biggest liability is she has a "d" after her name in a state of kentucky, and she has an association to president obama. she doesn't want to say something and put in 30-second ad where she says i voted for president obama. and the genius is, i know orman

voted for president obama, but he is not seen as an ally of the democratic party but known for an independent. >> and he was asked do you support obamacare and would you expand medicaid and he sounded like grimes, would not give a straight answer and evading the question, so you have the same kinds of concerns if you are greg orman, but it's more natural if you say i am not on obama's side because he doesn't have a "d" on the side of his name. of course grimes voted for president obama, so it's hard to distance yourself from the democratic candidate, and when bill clinton is raising you money, and orman has managed to stay away from issues and it's more expected that he would in part because he is an independent and not expected -- journalists are not going to be pushing him to be president obama because he is not trying

to run in obama's party. >> we are always hearing about the shrinking battle ground, there is blue states and red states and nothing in between, and now there is a potential way for each party to put states in play in elections that nobody thought would be in play, and that's the story in south dakota and kansas. thank you for being here tonight. really appreciate that. next, rachel has the amazing story of how half a billion of your tax money turned into $32,000 worth of junk, but first one more thing about running as a democrat in a red state, and i have been trying to book all three candidates in the crazy south dakota race, and i got good news. i got two out of three. sunday morning on my usual show, we will have independent candidate, and democratic nominee, we will have them back to back on sunday, two-thirds of south dakota senate field will join us live on sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern time, and there is still time for the

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last night on this show we ended up with two piece of breaking news first on voting rights. first the blocking of voter id law, and then a federal judge in texas blocked that state's voter id law. it was a huge night in the news

so much so we cut one of the stories of the night, and it involves an afghan air force and airplane sledder. >> here is something mazing that has been totally buried in the news. the afghan air force had shipments of 16 cargo planes, and they are sometimes called c-27s, and they were bought by the u.s. military by the italian air force, and then the u.s. had them rebuilt and re-tooled by a defense contractor, and then once they were bought from the italians and rebuilt and retooled by the contract and then sent to afghanistan and the planes were going to make up 15% of the entire fleet of the afghan air force. this is a very big deal. an expensive deal. here is general stanley mcchrystal who at that point was

commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan, at an event celebrating the united states donating all the planes to afghanistan. >> following the example, -- >> afghanistan will take off peacefully. it was a $486 million plan. these c-27s, right? it was going to set the afghan air force up to thrive, and there was one little problem with this plan. the afghan air force could not fly those planes. they could not maintain them or manage the whole spare parts thing, which is an important part of maintaining an air fleet, and they got 16 of them

and then they are sitting off the runway in the dirt. now they are no longer there. and the special inspector general just found out why. it's because the planes have been turned into scrap metal. they were broken up, shredded and sold for scrap metal for 6 cents a pound. what does a plane being scrapped for metal look like, you ask? like this. that's awesome. for the record this is not one of the exact planes shredded in afghanistan, but it's a plane getting shredded down to the tiny little piece of scrap. fascinating, right? the u.s. military took the money and bought the afghans a fleet

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so this was the scene in greater st. louis today. hundreds of protesters marching in the rain outside of the federal courthouse calling for justice. yesterday marked the two month anniversary of the unarmed 18-year-old michael brown by a ferguson, missouri, police officer. the killing kicked off weeks of protesting, and they called for an end to racial profiling and police misconduct around the country and now another case of a police officer killing another teenager, this just a few miles from ferguson created new outrage in the community. on wednesday night an off-duty st. louis police officer killed meyers, and he shot meyers after the teenager fired at him. police have described meyers as, quote, no stranger to law

enforcement, and said they recovered a gun at the scene and the ballistic evidence indicates he fired three rounds at the officer. meyers' family insists he was unarmed and carrying a sandwich and not a gun. surveillance video shows him minutes before he died in a convenience store where a clerk says he sold myers a sandwich. they have not released the name of the off duty police officer in the shooting, and he is currently on paid administrative leave pending the investigation, so in a community that remains a tender box after the shooting death of unarmed brown, and yet another shooting added another layer of confusion and distrust. yesterday the demonstration started with a quiet candlelight prayer vigil in a st. louis neighborhood where meyers was killed, and hundreds of people showed up and the crowd sang a version of amazing grace and changed the lyrics to include don't shoot. and leaders called for a federal

investigation into the shooting of meyers, and later on thursday night, police took to the streets in riot gear, and some of the protesters burned american flags, and they broke the windows on the house, and police ended up using pepper spray and mace. for weeks now, people in ferguson have been planning four days of rallies in memory of brown, starting tonight. they asked for people to protest peacefully and lawfully. protest planners are calling this a weekend in resistance, and the st. louis ferguson area, they will teach about civil disobedience and they are planning a party, and they want it to be a peaceful weekend for a community that has unanswered questions. joining us now is a columnist for the st. louis american. thanks for being with us here tonight. it has been two months, i think, for a lot ofnationally,

people remember this and now they are looking at protesters taking to the streets for this event this weekend. if you can give a sensenationalw what they are looking for and they want to come from this weekend? >> i think that what the people that have gathered here in this region are looking for is to demonstrate to not just to our region and state but our entire nation and the world that these issues that confront us about racism and police brutality and dishonesty in reporting, they have not stopped. that the world needs to know that people are still convinced and people are still with the clear understanding that these actions will continue until we address the root cause that caused the killing of mike

brown. >> so this is happening, and this has been planned for long time, and this week in the city of st. louis, the shooting of meyers, and the police are saying they have ballistics evidence saying he fired on the gun, and the family saying it was a sandwich. and we say, we are not sure what happened here, but how has that fed into the mood of the people who are here to honor michael brown and to hold the protests this weekend? >> i think etc. really important to understand that the specifics of what happened with mr. meyers, the killing of mr. meyers, and whether or not that matches with the specifics of what killed michael brown is irrelevant. the issue that we need to be discussing and the issue that underlines all of this is the issue of the distrust that the community, that the residents, that the people that are gathering here in this region have for the police, and it's

not a distrust that was born out of the single incident, the killing of meyers, the killing of michael brown, this is a distrust that is generations old, with a collective understanding and a collective experience, specific experience, that people can say about what has happened to them that demonstrates that they do not trust the police. >> so does that spill over? the grand jury is hearing evidence right now and we tonight know what is going on there, is the general expectation that there is going to be an indictment or not going to be an indictment of the officer? >> i am a former criminal defense attorney and i practiced in the county of st. louis and from what i have seen and what people feel, nobody -- few people believe that there is going to be an indictment, and again, that's another way and another reason why people have gathered here today because with our experience of the criminal

justice system with the specific experience of what has happened in the decisions that have been made to push this, to move this grand jury, nothing that has happened, nothing that bob mccalla has done has trust. >> thank you. up next, rachel will be back, sort of. stay with us. with my united mileageplus explorer card. i have saved $75 in checked bag fees. priority boarding is really important to us. you can just get on the plane and relax. i love to travel, no foreign transaction fees means real savings. we can go to any country and spend money the way we would in the us. when i spend money on this card i can see brazil in my future. i use the explorer card to earn miles in order to go visit my family which means a lot to me. ♪

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we're back. rachel's back. through the magic of television she's about to appear on your tv screen sitting where i'm sitting now talking about an amazing debate moment from the north carolina senate race this week. >> for the last year you've sat on the foreign affairs committee and you've missed half the meetings. can you explain to me what other commitments you had that you thought were more important than sitting in the committee? mainly interested in where were you and why were other commitments more important than sitting in that foreign affairs committee? >> well, let me clarify something, george. i am not on the foreign affairs committee. i serve on the armed services committee. >> i stand corrected. >> i could watch that over and over and over again. let me just clarify. this week we had debate night all across the country.

all around the same time on tuesday night there were big important senate debates. virginia and west virginia and north carolina, georgia, colorado. five states, five debates all that same night. while most of the debates this week went according to script and talking points v talking points there were a few funny flubs here and there. tom tillis, you know where you are. and one really substantive thing to come out of the debates. thanks to the senate debates this week you can now add two more sitting senators to the list of people who think that congress maybe ought not to be on a 54-day vacation right now. who think that congress ought to go back to washington and take a vote on this new war that we're in this new war that we're in about which congress has said precisely this. >> i do think that we need to have a reauthorization of the authority for the use of military force. and i have called on the

president to bring that before congress. i would go back to washington in a moment's notice to have full debate in congress on that use. >> i think congress should be called back into session and debate this issue thoroughly. because i believe as senator cane, i think i strongly support leadership on this issue. i'm not sure i fully agree with the authorization of force that he has put forward. but that's part of the process that will be fully debated in front of the foreign relations committee, amended and dealt with. >> democratic senator mark warner of virginia, the newest additions to lists of members of congress who say look it's a new war we never debate, never voted on. we should come back and debate it and vote on it. congress it should be noted as yet is still not planning to reconvene and debate and vote on these things. but with the addition of these two senators there are now by our count 19 members of congress

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tonight a possible answer to an international mystery. where in the world is north korea's supreme leader. the last few times the world has laid eyes on kim jong un. he was walking with a limp. that was the first sign of trouble. he has been in power for about three years has made a point of

being publicly out and about, visiting everything from amazement parks to factories and to military bases and meeting with the people, except for now he isn't. except now suddenly he isn't. the north korean central news agency which creatively covers the comings and goings of the dear leader has a few stories about floral baskets being delivered to kim jong-un but no mention of his complete absence from public view. there's a story about a new book release, collection of kim il-sung's antedotes. mexican outlet "tragedy produced by unearthal crimes in u.s." the recent secret service scandal that refers to former secret service director julia pearson as "he" and says a man with a dagger crossed the white house fence while the president was giving a speech and "everyone was not aware of what was going on."

it punctuates its report with america is in a cesspool of crime. the agency is in the business of propaganda, and when it rights about its dear leader, they usually lean less on fact and more on fan fiction. lately other than flower deliveries they haven't had much to talk about. according to the kcna, the last time kim jong-un a public appearance was more than a month ago when he took in a music concert. he loved it and they love loved him "he congratulated the band on their successful performance. he waved back at the enthusiastic cheers from the performers and the audience." he waived waved back. but that concert was the last time that he made a public appearance. and since then, the limping leader has missed a run of political events and celebration that is he would normally attend, including a visit to the mausoleum built for his father and grandfather. a big celebration today marking the formation of the communist party in north korea. kim jong-un's conspicuous

absence from those events has led to a rumor mill explosion. did he break both ankles because he's eating too much cheese? seriously that was one of the rumors. does he have gout? has there been a coup? did his sisters gain power. a report today spun to reuters that kim jong-un hurt his leg during military exercises. he ordered all the generals to take part and he took part, too. they were crawling and running around and he pulled a tendon. the source is quite adamant kim jong-un is in total control before reuters added that the source's information could not be independently verified. why would you need verification? the only thing i'm surprised by is the fact that kim jong-un can be injured at all. there you have it, the world, it is a leg injury. it's nothing to worry about. soon enough kim jong-un will be back to perfect health, defending north korea from the ills of capitalism and fighting off voldemort and allowing

musicians to cheer for him before they finish their concerts. that does it for tonight. rachel will be back on monday. i'll see you in a few hours on "up." up next, "weekends with alex witt." screening starts at one u.s. airport for the disease. what exactly are officials looking for, and can they really stop it from coming to america? high school football bombshell. new charges after allegations of hazing and sex assault by players in one new jersey town. >> the president is on the ballot as much as mitch mcconnell might want him to be. it's my name. >> mid-term madness. a fight to the finish in key senate races including kentucky. this could be the best time to start thinking about the holidays, at least in one way. we'll explain.