it's tuesday october 20th and this is now. >> we're not moving an inch. >> chris christie remains defy and responding to the controversy over his position on shifting quarantine. >> i think it's a bridge too far for governor christie to put a nurse in a plastic bubble. >> if they chose to break quarantine, what would we do with them, taser them? >> we drag them back into our house? >> is this about politicians trying to appear tough even at the expense of individuals. >> for people who come back from africa to quarantine them, is really excessive. >> in a really hyperbolic way, because they've been wrong before. >> why is chris christie always

so angry. >> before he strips somebody of their freedom, he's got to be real sure that it's a scientific judgment that's being made. >> we're not moving an inch. >> workers fighting ebola in west africa, get a word of thanks for the president. before departing the white house this afternoon, the president took time out to salute workers with the u.s. aide dart team deployed in west africa. after thanking the team by phone, president obama spoke to reporters about the importance of the international mission. >> if we don't have robust international response in west africa, we are endangering our sfs here back home. in order to do that, we have to make sure that those workers who are willing, able and dedicated to go over there in a tough job, that they're applauded, thanked and supported. that should be our priority. >> emphasizing the need to stop

the ebola outbreak at its source as scientific experts have dictated all along. >> even as it seems to befuddle some politicians, science is proving effective at fighting ebola. >> amber vincent was discharged today from emory university hospital where she shared her gratitude. >> i'm so grateful to be well, and first and foremost, i want to thank god. i sincerely believe that with god, all things are possible. >> while this is a day for celebration and gratitude, i ask that we not lose focus on the thousands of families who continue to labor under the burden of this disease in west africa. >> with vincent's release, there's only one patient, one being treated for ebola in the united states. dr. craig spencer is in isolation at new york's bellevue medical center, where he's reported to be in serious, but stable condition, given the menness kuehl number of

indications in this country and the incredibly low risk of a widespread outbreak, there's mounting criticism. in an editorial yesterday, the new england journal of medicine called the policy unfair and unwise. if we add barriers making it harder for volunteers to return to their community we are hurting ourselves. the calculus is simple and we think the governors have it wrong. they've been criticized for being inconsistent saying the quarantine could take place at home. governor chrissy defended himself in the way that only chris christie can. >> i mean, we're all wrong and they're right, matt? we're trying to be careful here. this is common sense. and the members of the american public believe it is common sense and we're not moving an inch. our policy hasn't changed and will not change. >> he's not only catching heat

from the scientific community but he's catching heat from his fellow conservatives by letting a nurse go home. super storm christie blows again. with the infamous photo of new jersey governor and president obama clutching hands. rush limbaugh took it a step further saying, we need to quarantine chris christie. joining me now is a infectious disease specialist from the cdc. it's good to see you on this umpteenth day of ebola panic. you have a great read in the beast today. headline, new york and new jersey's ebola quarantines are an insane over reaction, and in part of that you write, the real situation is far more complex than the simple thuggish

gubernatorial suggestions indicate. >> i think they stepped in, didn't realize public opinion was going to be reasonable. they figured people wanted tough guy stuff. they both do very well, they're both very thoughtful accomplished politicians. i think they're stunned this bounced the wrong way. >> this seems to be a crisis of their own making. why even begin to impose the quarantines if you have no medical experts and no particular public pressure calling for them? >> it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist yet. and what's strange is to see these two men who handle super storm sandy quite well, and adeptly, and they manage the government response and the bliks very well, to see them flub this and get over -- it's almost as if they're reacting to the panic of ten days earlier when it seemed like we weren't sure what was going on and there

were some major mistakes by authorities in the hospital in dallas. now, to do it now when it seems like the calm has returned, we're not quite as panicked, people have got their stuff together, it seems like a weird move. >> especially when you have the visuals and the tape and the audio of two dallas nurses stricken with ebola, completely recovered, one of them in the white house, the other having a press conference today. >> i think the nurse who took this over -- casey should have known you don't mess with a nurse. this is a tough, independent minded compelling person. she's the one to me who tipped the whole argument. i thought it was through the weekend before she spoke up, and boy did she speak up, i thought it could go either way, she was such an articulate representative of the position. this is totally bonkers, that there was nowhere for anyone to hide. she was incredible.

>> and now chris christie has a lawsuit he has to deal with. >> you see him not backing down, you see him saying, bring it. >> which is what heef done with all of these things. >> that's his playbook and it works for him. more americans have been married to britney spears than have died from ebola. >> although, marriage to britney spears gets it's own -- >> you want to see calm and effective government, but we've listened to the medical community, listened to people like my fellow guest leer, who haven't agreed medicine or infectious disease. i don't know why medical officials are making quarantine policy on the fly, and disregarding the advice for experts. >> the department of defense is quarantining military officers who are going over to help build some of this infrastructure in west africa, the president was

asked about that an hour ago. and his answer was a little complicated, i want to play everyone the sound. let's take a listen to that. >> we don't expect to have similar rules for our military as we do for civilians, when we have volunteers who are taking time out from their families, their loved ones and so forth, we want to make sure when they come back, that we are prudent, that we are making sure that they are not at risk themselves or at risk of spreading the disease. but we don't want to do things that aren't based on science and best practices. >> so if -- you're going to -- it just seems a little convoluted there, right? >> he's trying to defend a policy that he's not necessarily totally with. and he's being the president and trying to look inclusive and calm, and i think he's probably not that into it. he didn't look too excited. >> the reasoning is, it's a little hard to follow. we're not quarantining the medical officials because

they're volunteers, but we're quarantining defense department officials because they are -- this is part of their mission. >> i think we've seen a level of parsing of the word quarantine and home quarantine and this and that, i think they're creating such chaos, there's room for everyone to hide. christie can say he has it his way. como can say he got it his way. the cdc came out with an updated quarantine/isolation policy last night, that parses things, i think very intelligently, now there's something for everyone, everyone can declare victory. >> what happened behind the scenes. one of the -- they're strange bed fellows across the country in terms of the crisis that is ebola, but in terms of the reaction between new york and new jersey, from all outside accounts, there is a cleaningial relationship between cuomo and christie, do you think that is at the root of some of this

joined quarantine policy, this self-designated policy? >> i think the fundamental root is that they share responsibility for the airports. so they to some extent have to come together on the same page on some of the policy. but i do think it's interesting, you've seen governor cuomo walk himself back over the last 24 hours, you know, kind of get himself back on the right page, on the same page with the mayor of new york, chris christie is going full speed ahead, bring it on, sue me. >> that's not surprising, given the governor of new jersey's previous behavior. in terms of resource allocation for contract casing, this seems to be confusing, it seems like a lot of work to do the detective tracing for the doctor that was on the subway. that doesn't seem like a great allocation of public health resources. is it better to not keep people at home and, therefore, not have to spend all these resources

trying to figure out where they were? or should we forget about the contact tracing. >> it's important to remember that ebola is well controlled in the u.s. because we're so vigilant about it. but i think that it's not money well spent to have a bunch of public health professionals trying to find people who are phantoms -- going on the subway, i'm a total believer that for 21 days, people have to take their temperature twice a day and be accountable to someone. whether or not they do that at home or at the meat ball shop to me is not relevant at all. first fever, just like dr. spencer did, the whole spencer thing is a textbook example of why this works. >> instead of the opposite which is why it doesn't work? >> yes. >> always good to see you. my friend nick, it's always good to see you. after the break, republican senate hopeful is pulling pages from the mitt romney playbook.

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in georgia, democrats are hoping michelle nunn can score an important senate win in a red state. they believe she might do so by dusting off a 2012 campaign tactic that worked on mitt romney. paint her opponent as a vulture

capitalist. that strategy appears to be working. she's performed above expectation and leads in certain polling. for purdue, the trouble began earlier this month, when politico unearthed the 2005 deposition. yeah, i spent most of my career doing that 37 days later, in another gift to the nunn campaign, he doubled down saying he was proud of that record. >> i'm proud of it, outsourcing is the prom kurmt of services or products that help your business run. >> if you remember the last presidential election, it is a familiar play. speaking with chuck todd this afternoon, the outsourcing debate was far more complex than a 30 second attack add. >> a lot of people are critical

about this outsourcing idea. dollar general, we created 20,000 jobs in a short period of time, and we outsourced all the products and services we sold in the stores. how did those jobs get decimated anyway? entire industries were destroyed by bad government policies over the last four or five decades. bad management didn't destroy those entire industries. >> while this last sunday's senate debate boiled down to outsourcing versus obama, there was still room for gender gaps, between 2004 and 2007 when purdue was ceo of dollar general, 2000 employees filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company. much like mitt romney before him, purdue's answer only made the lady troubles that much more troubles. >> there was no wrongdoing there, that lawsuit was settled five years after i was -- she knows that, it was less than 2,000 people. we had upwards of 70,000

employees in that company. >> 2,000 women, that seems like quite a lot to me who say they were discriminated against, and federal investigators, it's public knowledge, found that that was true. and it was during your tenure, it was settled afterwards, but the suit was during your tenure. >> joining me now is senior editor at the new republic. brian, wow! another -- mitt romney continues to be the talk of the town on the campaign trail, i'm sure he doesn't want to be associated with outsourcing. how is he to handle this given his record on the subject. >> i think all he has going for him at this point is that he can run out the clock. it's pretty close to election, the obama political people saw romney coming from day one.

she hasn't been able to run against him consistently since the beginning of the campaign as this romneyesque figure. she hasn't had enough time to work on all this. >> i don't know, in terms of the gift to the nunn campaign, there's outsourcing, no big deal that 2,000 of my employees sued me for pay discrimination. 2,000 women is a lot of women, it's binders and binders and binders and binders filled with women's name. >> it's maybe enough women that could swing the vote for her. >> if all of those women came out to vote, she would be very happy, and the purdue people would not be very happy. 2,000 women sounds like a lot. we all know people who have women, know other women who have been discriminated against, i think that's true. you in your life have been discriminated against. i know who i've been

discriminated against. i think purdue has done us a favor by doubles down on this stuff, i think he's illustrated a clear difference. in some ways, one hopes this creates a referendum on this style of campaigning and rhetoric. if this isn't going to work in the deep south, where else can it work? i mean, georgia's a place where it has gone from manufacturing to retail. those jobs that he said were created through outsourcing. those are the jobs that are retailed. those are jobs that without -- today they people have health care. they aren't the good jobs that manufacturing produced. i think he's doing everybody a favor by making this a clear distinction. >> there's been a lot of discussion about tactics necessary to win. and to hold on toe a seat in this midterm election. one of the things that's happening on the fringes of the georgia race is invoking ferguson as a way to get out barts of the democratic base in

the state. there is a flyer that's been put out by outside spending groups that say if you want to prevent another ferguson in their future, it's up to you to make change happen. i guess, i wornder if you think that is fair? i should play our own chuck todd talked to michelle nunn about those ferguson flyers, here's what she had to say. let's play the sound? >> i go back to what john lewis said, he said that we go back to make sure we're part of a vibrant democracy. >> would the nunn for senate campaign have put out that flyer? >> it's not something we have done. i think it's something that merits a conversation by georgia voters. >> that's not something the nunn campaign has done. it's not an outside spending group. it's the georgia democratic

party, is that fair? >> if you vote for candidates like purdue, there will be more fergusons or vote for nunn there will be fewer. i don't think that's fair to say. while it's true to say what happened in ferguson was inspired by politics. what isn't true is the way to stop things like that from happening is more organizing, more voting and getting people to shape their own destiny by not being outnumbered by people who have different views. if that's a threat, they should be embarrassed by that. i think that's why michelle nunn is not running away from the idea that if people see trends within society that they want to change, they should register to vote and go out and vote. i think that's a completely uncontroversial idea whether

you're talking about ferguson or talking about issues actually related to the georgia senate race. >> i think the causal relationship that that is implied here, you should vote. i think voter participation is a good thing. and being part of democracy succeeds i think that makes a lot of folks uncomfortable. it's happening in north carolina saying, tillis led the type of effort that caused the shooting death of trayvon martin. invoking the legacy of trayvon martin is problematic, there better be some structural change if you're introducing that into the dialogue before election day. let's see some changes after election day. >> there's a saying in my survey, i see sometimes in my personal life, that i think

might be applicable here, if you're uncomfortable, that probably means you're growing, i think the questions are uncomfortable or they seem somewhat inappropriate we have to ask ourselves why. brian made some great points and you did get to the heart of it, it's not that these things aren't relevant, if we're going to say they're relevant, change needs to happen. i think that it's great that nunn said she wasn't going to run away from this stuff. i think that bringing up trayvon martin and stand your ground laws is appropriate. if you're going to bring them up, we want to see change happen if you're going to do that. >> it becomes crass if voters are participating and elected officials do nothing about preventing the next ferguson. thank you guys for your time. >> thank you. a reminder, all this week, msnbc hosts are answering your questions about the midterm elections on a little thing called twitter. tomorrow, my friend and colleague melissa harris pif

perry hosts a twitter chat at 10:00 a.m. eastern, and thursday, i will be taking your questions. please be kind or don't. i don't know. at 11:00 a.m., please tweet at me. coming up, 30 years after releasing this ad in his first senate campaign, look at those dogs, mitch mcconnell is once again hoping a pack of blood hounds can find the scent of victory. i'll explain what that means next.

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in a premeditated way with a rifle and attacks somebody in uniform and purposefully goes to a parliament is committing by common sense standings, a terrorist act. >> earlier today, thousands lined the streets of the canadian town of hamilton, to pay respects to nathan cirillo. >> may time ease the searing pain of today. and may his son young marcus daniel cirillo. some day find comfort in the fact that our entire country looks up to his dad. >> meanwhile, we continue to learn more about the man who killed cirillo. according to canadien police the attack was driven by ideological and political motives. the shooter specifically

referred to canadien foreign policy as a reason for his actions. that video has not been released by authorities. and it is not the only recent piece of extremist propaganda. yesterday, isis released a propaganda video in which john cantley claims the syrian town is on the verge of falling to isis militants. the video is the latest in a series -- cantley's appearance in isis propaganda is the result of force. >> hello, i'm john can'tly, today we're in the city of cobanny on the syrian turkish border that is turkey right behind me. >> this latest video claims that isis fighters are mopping up street to street and building to building. that doesn't comport with the situation on the ground. iraqi kurdish fighters are traveling through turkey to fight isis on the con

defendanted town of cobanny joining me now is director and president jane harmon. >> let me start with you in terms of this latest piece of propaganda, is this intended to draw the turks into greater engagement in this battle? what will it take for turkey to see isis and cobanny as a threat? >> it baffles me. isis and kobani is a threat to the campaign. turkey needs to be on the right side totally, and so do many other countries in the region. let me say something, though, about what you were raising in

the cantley video and the rest of itp p i think media should be careful about giving these isis propaganda tapes more play. it's better to do what you just did which is barely describing and push back and say what the real facts are. we have to do a better job with the counter narrative, that's a huge part of preventing the lone wolves and obviously kerry's right about this fellow in canada, and there could be more in the u.s. too. >> you bring up a very important and good point. isis' media strategy is even more powerful and far reaching than its actual military strategy. it's extremists on the ground battle reality. i'll quote jacob siegel who posited to the group lacks the resources to coordinate larger attacks and has other priorities, it can send out calls like the message from last month or the one today and count any violence that is engendered

as a result as a victory. >> i think what struck me about the video that was put out yesterday by the group is that it was a very measured message in fact by john cantley. i listened to it, i reread the transcript, this was not some rabid raving rant against the west. this was a measured report by a correspondent on the ground with a tint of sarcasm. very clearly taking jabs at second kerry and the west. which puts it in the folder of reports you would see for example on russian television, and i think that's what made it so smart, it is mostly presented, it is propaganda, and he is a hostage, but for supporters of isis, this will be seen as proof that the west is lying about what is happening on the ground and here is our version about what is going on.

turkey at this point does not see isis as its biggest threat, it's very worried about kurdish separatist ambitions, we had the turkish prime minister today saying, we don't want to be part of some military effort that is just for show to save kobani, we want to think about how we're going to save syria. there's a lot of criticism that can be directed at the turks they do have a point, the grievances that isis is feeding on to fill its ranks with people are mostly about the fact that the west did not do enough to save people from the violence meeted out against them. >> in terms of that piece. the insidious nature of the latest cantley video presenting an alternate reality. this is a hostage who's being coerced about giving a false news report about what's happening on the ground. >> that's right. >> it's important to

characterize that as what it is. not as violent and outwardly extremist if you will, as a beheading video, the x and y axis are distorted given that that is the outer limit. when we talk about preventing the radicalization of lone wolves, i wonder if you think maybe we are -- we talk about that a lot. that's the sort of term du jour to characterize the issue. they're people that have found an ideology, and they're not actually driven by any tenets in islam, but anything particularly religious. in that way, i wonder how hard you think it is to stop them from a national security perspective. >> i don't think you can generalize that way. each person is different. radicalization is not a turnkey effort, and let's understand that in western societies, having radical views is protected, certainly by our first amendment.

it's taking extreme action that is not protected, so we have to intervene just at a point where someone's about to turn into a violent extremist, we have to be careful to understand that, but my point is, that a lot of these folks think they are carrying out clear religious tenets, they have become muslim, that's not true of every radical, not every radical is a muslim, they've become muslim, they believe the selections in these horrible magazines like inspire, which al qaeda puts out, or this new thing that isil puts out. it's anti-muslim, what these groups are doing, that's what the counter narrative has to say. beheadings using kids as slaves, tieing nude women to trees so they can be raped as the fruits of war, that is justified where in the koran, and this seems to me this counter narrative that needs to be written has to be out there on the internet as an alternative message.

>> i came to your earlier point. isis has adopted western tactics. some of them look like things that could have been produced in the united states. or in other western countries. that then makes the sort of back and forth. there's a real question. what should be that counter narrative, how to respond to this kind of stuff without giving it an elevated platform? >> i can only imagine what john cantley must have been feeling when he was trying to sound calm and seasoned as a reporter in front of this camera, i mean, he has seen some horrific things. there's a lot of criticism about him doing this video, you have to remember that he is most probably under duress, and he's seen his colleagues being beheaded. on the response to isis, it has to be regional as well as coming from the west. there has to be a movement within the region to try to address how young people can better experience their religion

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at rikers island in new york stepped down today after omitting from official records hundreds of incidents of violence at that prison. a federal appeals court upheld the death sentence of a man in ohio whose lawyers say he's mentally disabled. and a man on death row in missouri is set to be executed in a few hours, even though he was effectively abandoned by his lawyers. this is what two days in the american justice system looks like. just mercy, brian stevenson tells his stories of the prisoners highs represented in the past. his work speaks louder than his praise. his organization the equal justice initiative has sought freedom for hundreds of prisoners across the country, the children, the mentally ill and wrongfully convicted, fighting for just mercy in a system twisted by bias and

plagued with discrimination joining me now the great brian stevenson. it's always great to see you. be congrats. >> let's talk first about there's some incredible moving and distressful stories in this book. walter mcmillan is one of the big ones, he represented hundreds of prisoners. tell us about his story. >> when i met him, he was on death row in alabama. he was placed on death row for 15 months pretrial. it's the only person i've ever represented who was put on death row before he was convicted of a crime. >> how is that legal? >> it's completely illegal. when i went to talk with his family, they said, we were with him at the time this crime took place because we were raising money for his sister's church. we know he didn't commit this

crime that occurred several miles away. >> when i got back to my office, i was sitting there looking at the records and i got a call from the judge whose name was robert e. lee key. the judge told me i should not take this case. all of it was so surreal because the evidence of his innocence was more overwhelming. this case took place in monroeville, alabama if you go to that community you see all the memorabilia, there's a leading citizen put on a play each year, all the streets are named after characters, there is this romanticized fascination with that story. >> and here it was playing out again. >> where an innocent black man was being convict ed. >> this is 1993 that he is

exonerated? >> that's right. >> this is not 50, 70 years ago? >> no. >> one of the things that's so important about the book and the work you're doing, it calls attention to individual stories and your grandmother. you say she once said, you can't understand most important things from a distance, you have to get close. do you think that is why opinions on the death penalty are where they are? i mean, they basically haven't moved in the last couple months when we talked about botched executions and a host of other injustices around the death penalty. people don't know these criminals, and so there's not a lot of sympathy for bias? >> we generally aren't close enough to what we're doing in the jails -- on death row in particular, but also just generally. we now have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. and we're not ashamed about that, we don't actually think about what that means to have so many families, so many community s diagnose rupted by over

incarceration. my hope with the book was to get people closer to the human cost of throwing away people condemning people, the death penalty is one of this number, unbelievably flawed by error, for every ten people that had been executed, we now identified one instent person that's been exonerated. because of our distance as a society, we somehow tolerate that for every ten planes that took off one crashed, nobody would fly, that would be too unacceptable a risk, we are tolerating that kind of error, we've allowed that system to be this island that we don't pay close attention to. it's carried out in our name. >> you see something that is incredibly provocative. you talk about poverty, and you say in your work the opposite of poverty is not wealth, but

justice tell us a little bits about how you came to that conclusion. >> i've seen people do bad things, do wrong things. we have this legacy of racial inequality in this country and we've never owned up to it. we do things that structurally marginalize poor people. sometimes the way we want to reconcile ourselves to that is to throw some little pittance of money, and think we've now made it even. the truth of it is, what happened is unjust, you can't solve prov ert with just wealth, you sometimes have to recognize that the opposite of poverty is justice. >> it's a very provocative thesis and a great book. everything you do is great, it's always good to see you. >> the book is just mercy, a story of justice and redemption. thanks for your time. coming up, bp's big secret next. account to his merrill edge retirement account. before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an "underserved season". and before he quit his friend's leaf-raking business

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