apparently wants well i but dr friedman let's agree it's not all about what the u.s. wants even though you keep mentioning of logic important what about mr a blood a bomb are actually compromising on his policy objective of ousting assad from office i think everybody now understands that was a silly idea to begin with do you think he will be willing to compromise on that as a potential concession to both russia iran and possibly even china i mean if he could by doing that he could kill several birds with the same stone normalize relations with those countries and also deal with counterterrorism well remember what both the arab league plan and geneva one and geneva two said. a power sharing system between the government of syria and the rebels that was the idea and that would lead to elections and a new government in syria unfortunately the russians chose it you need the two in february of two thousand and fourteen to sabotage that there's no other word for it the end result is more fighting more killing and more growth of islam that radical as well dr friedman i would

of a political scientist robert fragments dr friedman i heard you say that putin is no friend of the united states i wonder if you believe him to be an enemy of your country no i think mr putin is unfortunately following in the footsteps of some soviet leaders of paranoia of power in other words he saw the arab spring and later the comments of hillary clinton as aimed at overthrowing mr putin and the whole current russian system and i think that was a mistake i think he overreacted and i think that's one of the reasons that you have serious russian american problems these days well i think my reading of lives near putin is totally different from yours i think here saw what american involvement in the middle east and even in the ukraine is doing to those countries and hundreds of thousands of people being killed and whole country is being destroyed that is driving his somewhat. i think i'm ten merican statements even though i wouldn't describe his policies as anti-american but on one point i would agree with you that he is no friend of the united states precisely because i believe tha

i'm joined by robert freedman visiting professor of political science at johns hopkins university dr friedman thank you very much for being here it's my pleasure now you know one of those people called criminologists you studied the soviet union later russia for several decades and i'm sure you would agree with me of that. there has always been a considerable level of mistrust bits in our two nations but i wonder if the rhetoric used by both sides has ever been asked colorful and asked passive aggressive as it is nowadays well i think we're almost back to the worst of the cold war underbridge now and the early reagan days in the early one nine hundred eighty s. after the soviet invasion of afghanistan that's when relations really hit their bottom we're not there yet but if we continue in this direction will be there well i'll just use. this warthe passive aggressive and i think you know both sides seem to believe that they're defending their national interests or that national values and see the other side as an aggressor but it seems to me that this aggression is a very different caliber bec

dr. friedman, this is like saying i didn't know the gun was loaded, but somebody got shot.e cdc director was grilled by a congressional committee on the mishandling of the deadly pathogen as well as other recent safety lapses including the improper danger of the strain of bird flu as the smallpox vials on the nih campus. >> one of the more disturbing findings of the cdc's own report. >> reporter: question after question asking how could this happen at the cdc? the gold standard of biosafety. >> if you work with something even if it's a deadly microbe, day after day and year after year you get a level of phil familiarity that may lead to doing things that you shouldn't do. >> reporter: no one has been hurt by these lapses, but dr. friedman says that is no excuse. >> the fact that it appears no one was harmed and that there were no releases does not excuse what happened. what happened was completely unacceptable. it should never have happened. >> it was a narrow miss, jake. there were some potentially problematic things that occurred, two labs have been shut down. they reassi

dr. friedman is likely to face that question again next week.he is scheduled to discuss the latest anthrax scare in front of a congressional committee. erica edwards, nbc news. >>> now at 6:00 new details emerging about the mass shooting at the navy yard last fall, and a critical piece of information d.c. police should have had in their search for the gunman. we have findings of a new report. >> door even, d.c. police wrote the reported and said they could have seen live video of of move the navy yard shooter was making if the security guard had just picked up the phone. the guard was locked in the room with surveillance video monitoring the man that went on a shooting ram page. it's unclear why he never contacted police. police chief cathy leneer said within the last hour the inability for her officers to see the video feed puts them at a disadvantage. she also says her officers never had trained for an active shooter situation on a military base. >> all the military folks, but none of that stuff -- we never did an active shooting training or d

dr. tom friedman called the mishandling of life anthrax "unacceptable" at a hearing. hearingne of witnesses after more than 80 staffers were potentially exposed. this portion is two hours. and >> good morning. you the subcommittee today and him and him and the subcommittee today examines the center for disease control anthrax incident last month that potentially exposed dozens of from you potentially exposed dozens of researchers to live and you and anthrax because established cdc policies were not followed. you last friday, the director and you and you announced corrective actions being taken. are you corrective actions being taken. the review identified a fundamental flaw -- the agency had no written plan to ensure the safety of workers and proper handling of live biological you agents. the department of agriculture agriculturetment of the disinfectant they used was expired. this is troubling, and completely unacceptable. the center for disease control is supposed to be the gold standard of the u.s. public health system, and it has been tarnished. we rely on cdc to

dr. friedman joins us to explore a much bigger and broader issue, looming worldwide health threats, including the pathogens that put modern edison at risk. he will discuss what can be done about the middle east syndrome corona virus or mears, a disease that has no known cure and recently emigrated to our country. it haunts the arabian peninsula come and is now showing up in other destinations faraway. the virus recent arrival in the united states sent hundreds of staff into emergency mode. some now referred to the illness as public enemy number one. other key issues dr. friedan will tackle include the dramatic increase in the number of measles cases in america and the pathogens pose to world health. they can crisscross rides -- they can take rising crisscross countries in a matter of days. tillers, microbes jumped from animals to humans and the growing number are resistant to all currently known drug treatments. director ofhas been the cdc since june 2009. a physician with training in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health and epidemiology, known for his tuberculosis control. f

dr. friedman, it looks like you are the guy on the hot seat. i have a few for you as well. the mission of cdc laboratories, as you well know, includes carrying out work to protect the american public. labical like it -- activities are shutting down pending the outcome of your reform. how will cdc be able to a dress any bioterrorism or other emergencies that might occur before they reopen? >> there is one particular laboratory that is shut. there are multiple other laboratories that continue their operation and would be able to respond to bioterrorism incidents. >> or not because of the errors -- there is no concern that we may be limiting our ability to protect become -- the public? >> i'm confident that the incident we did not -- we saw did not cause the release of agents into the community or exposure to city staff. they are a tipping point and a recognition of the need to improve our laboratory safety. we are fully functional in terms of responding to an event. -- i havestep of issued a moratorium on. we will lifted as soon as we are .onfident we can do it safely >> what

dr. friedman, we appreciate the time you spent with us last week but i think we have plenty of questionsafety and the carefulness. you could think that the priority would be safety and caring and making certain that you are tending to that culture of safety within these labs. nih with the vials of smallpox and the fact that this was in an unused portion of a storage room, who all would have access to that? and then, of course, the cross-contamination of the influenza sample. we've all talked about the three of these events. and the fact that they have occurred within this framework of time, the fact that there seemed to be a dismissiveness of the serious nature of the occurrences, the fact that the cdc's own report pointed out some of the contributing factors in this and the lack of a standard operating procedure. and best practices. and the fact that this is not known among the employees at that agency. we know that there are some remediation measures that have been implemented but the culture of safety or lack thereof continues to be a concern to us for public health. i yield back my t

dr. friedman said this was wrong. there's no gray zone in this. i don't get it. i'll let you respond to that. >> i appreciate that. i know the individuals involved. when i say training is needed, there are several phases of training and on the job specific training which includes sop verification is needed for scientists which have been mentioned in previous panel aspects. i'm not making light of the situation. i'm not making light of the situation at all. i'm simply saying that if we choose to punish people who come forward when they make a mistake -- >> that's different. >> that's what i'm saying. >> people -- that's different. we want people to be willing to do that. >> thank you. >> but i thought that you were saying here, and i think it is in your statements, they need more training. >> they need -- >> to know this is bad. when you put anthrax in a bag, you don't need training to know that. i want mr. griffith. >> that is subjective. >> i guess my concern is that what we have here is a series of reports that dr. ebright has brought out. we have had a series

dr. elliott friedman is manning the pediatric trauma unit. >> they were very close to losing their lives.they would have dropped into the critical temperature range. >> but all five of the children do pull through and live to tell about their close encounter with death. >> because my sister was drowning. she was screaming. i tried to save her, but i fell in. i couldn't get up because my book bag was heavy. but he pulled my head up and pushed me to the ice. >> i want to thank all the officers and the police department and the fire department. >> if we didn't get there when we did, that would have been a real bad situation. i think that we could have been doing a body recovery operation instead of a rescue. it was real close. >>> up next -- >> we didn't know how long we had. >> a cruise ship is in deep trouble, and it isn't the officers performing the rescue. >> my job is to rock and roll, not to rescue. >>> also a plane is going down. >> it went from to a -- >> they brace for impact. then, if crashing into the ground isn't dangerous enough -- >> there's a plane that is literally stuck up i

dr. thomas friedman, the director of the centers for disease control who will address the mers virus andother key health issues. excellency, the president of the republic of congo who will discuss peace, security and stability of the central africa region and oil investments in his country. on august 4, will have his excellency, it jacob zuma, president of south africa. second, i would like to present our guest with the traditional national press club mug. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> it can go in your office right next to the panthers helmet. and finally, one last question. i understand your daughter is quite the construction critical it comes to transportation. i would like to hear what advice and useful ideas she's given you lately. [laughter] >> very good question. 10 and i brought her to work one day. she went off into another part of the office while i went and did meetings. she came back and said that he, you can influence the bill? she knows this because she's stuffhe schoolhouse rock and i said i don't know. she says i have some ideas for you. we just come back from a v

dr. tom friedman called the mishandling of life anthrax "unacceptable" at a hearing.hearingne of witnesses after more than 80 staffers were potentially exposed.

dr. tom friedman, he did say he doesn't anticipate that this will spread to the united states. ed in the united states, the probability of extensive spread is extremely small, in part because we have the ability through education to recognize cases, ask positionhysicians, me they take good travel histories, educate travelers in the area to monitor themselves for early recognition of symptoms, present to health care in advance, identifying they may be at risk and implementing it very prompt and effective infection control, all the way from the emergency room visit through the hospitalization, and that knowledge has been proven to effectively contain and stamp out epidemics of hemorrhagic fevers in the past. just this spring we had an incident with lhasa fever, another hemorrhagic fever sfwei introduced, three others identified and none of them spread. >> one of the reasons this one case that they were talking about where the man died is really stoking so much fear is that he was traveling from liberia to nigeria. he died after he collapsed in the airport there, which makes me won