take a look. >> a rare television appearance for gary trudeau. to be here. >> so, it's an interesting time the way i look at this because you are starting the sikd season of this very political television show, "alpha house" and "scandal" and all the other political shows out there. new polling data shows as the 2014 election gets closer and closer, more and more people are just tuning out, throwing up their hands saying we don't want anything to do with american politics. this is like the lowest interest election we had in a generation in this country. interest in politics couldn't be lower and on the other hand, all these political tv shows. what is going on? >> the ones that are succeeding are succeeding because they're so strongly character driven. we're the only show that actually mirrors the real world. we parallel the real world. >> president obama is the president. >> mitch mcconnell the minority leader. so, it's kind of a 3d version of doonesbury of i'm bouncing off of what happens in politics. at the same time, people come back to our s

the show was created by gary trudeau of doonsbury fame. we recently completed the second season.er 24th. if you sub skrip to amazon prime. now the season concludes with awe gay marriage. >> all right. a little tease there. >> how about you? >> all right. i hate to be a little bit of a downer. but i learned a lot about ebola this week. one of the things that really came across the radar for me was all of these stories of acts of her ro heroism on the front lines. these health care workers have having to do these -- like going above and i don't what anyone should have to do and really putting themselves at risk. and there's a huge orphans crisis. there are all these ebola orphans. and all of these clinics opening up, don't know what to do with the babies and the children of these patients once their parents die. so, the math still favors the virus now. it's spreading in west africa. we're sending over troops. there's all this aide going. there's support going there. >> all right: we'll keep it at that. thanks for getting up this morning. and the online version of up against the clo

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