jim acosta on the new jersey and new york quarantine. we begin with barbara starr. so exactly how is the army planning to deal with soldiers and others returning from serving in liberia or guinea or sierra leone? >> the u.s. army took an extraordinary step today and ordered that all army troops, all soldiers returning from west africa will go into what they are calling controlled monitoring, what the rest of us might call a 21-day quarantine. they're housed separately, their temperature will be monitored. they will not be allowed to see their families. they'll have to stay inside during that 21-day period. already two-star general general darrell williams and about a dozen of his folks just back from africa are undergoing this monitoring, this quarantine in italy at their home base now the store opened to all u.s. army troops doing this. and general williams and his team right now are said to be completely asymptomatic. none of them are showing symptoms of ebola. the army says it is doing this out of an abundance of caution, but this is really way beyond what the pe

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he met with advisers today and senior white house adviser jim acosta joining us. so jim, i know that president obama may be appointing a ebola czar. >> reporter: i talked to the press secretary on this, who is in charge. he could not answer the question but went on to say that lisa monaco, the president's adviser can handle isis and ebola as well. and earlier the president said he may appoint an ebola czar. >> it may be necessary to appoint a third person, not because these people have not been doing an outstanding job. susan rice is my national security adviser. they have been doing an outstanding job really working hard on this issue. but they also are responsible for a whole bunch of other stuff. >> now, it is not all clear, the president is close to tapping in an ebola czar. he said he will get back to us if he orders a ebola czar. >> and others calling on him to put a travel ban, he said that is not an option right now. >> he said he is not opposed to a travel ban to the countries in west africa, dealing with the ebola outbreak. but he did say if it is somethi

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jim acosta has late-breaking details and what is the latest? i take it the meeting is still anything on. is that right? >> that's right, wolf. the meeting is still going on and i can tell you tv cameras have not been allowed into that room yet to pick up on some of the president's remarks. we expected that to happen sooner than right now, wolf, but that just hasn't happened yet and as you know, the president canceled a campaign event that he was supposed to have this evening with the connecticut governor dan maloy and that was scrapped so the president could hold this meeting with officials dealing with thebola crisis. why is it that the president canceled this event when he's done campaign-type activities in the past while dealing with crises? you'll recall he was on a campaign trip when the malaysian flight crashed in ukraine. the white house said the president sometimes had has to make the call on a case by case-basis to stay back at the white house to deal with a situation like this and that's why he did what he did today. there are questio

jim acosta has more. >> reporter: doctors and nurses in the ebola hot zone will need a careful examination of health care rules back home. if they want to confine someone in a tent so be it. >> they can do that. >> well, subject to the laws of these individual states. what we hope and what we think has been true in the vast majority of circumstances is that these kinds of policy decisions should be driven by science. >> reporter: despite new cdc guidelines on how to deal with those returning health care workers, the obama administration is leaving it up to the states, some already stepping forward to come up with their own policies. >> i think this is a policy that will become a national policy sooner rather than later. >> reporter: the white house slammed chris christie and governor cuomo after they implemented the quarantines. >> why are you saying i reversed the decision? >> reporter: officials refused to say whether they were ever consulted. >> is that a yes or a no in terms of whether the administration was told in advance. >> i'm not in a position to detail all of the phone calls. >>

senior white house correspondent jim acosta is here now with more. good morning, jim. >> good morning, carol. that's right. the department of veterans affairs was given this new authority earlier this summer to speed up the process of firing top officials who've been accused of wrongdoing and after those allegations are substantiated, that's exactly what the v.a. is doing right now. we got this word overnight that the v.a. is removing four top officials. one in washington that appears to be not related to the secret waiting list scandal. but look at these other systems that are affected, carol, pittsburgh, the director of the v.a. system there removed according to the press release coming from the department of veterans affairs. it was for allegations of conduct unbecoming a senior executive were substantiated. so some tough language. also in central alabama and dublin, georgia, in that dublin, georgia, case, carol, it says allegations of data manipulation were substantiated. that talks about those secret waiting lists, the hiding of long wait times t

president barack obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have been strained and our jim acosta more. >> reporter: the white house quickly jumped into damage control mode today after some offensive comments directed at benjamin netanyahu. on the fraying relations between the u.s. and israel, "the atlantic" magazine's jeffrey goldberg used a nickname about bibi, he is a chicken, ex-mre steve. netanyahu offered heated comments saying, quote, i have been on the battlefield many times. i risk my life for the country and i am not willing to make concessions that would endanger our country. now, many of these disagreements between the obama administration and netanyahu are well known and center around iran's nuclear program and settlement expansions. whether the president should reach out and apologize, when asked, the white house declined to say if that would happen. >> to call and prime minister netanyahu and apologize? >> i don't have any calls on the president's schedule to tell you about but i think i can confidently say based on the numerous conversations that the two have held,

let's go now to cnn's senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. he is live at the white house. jim, first of all, is it true that some of the health care workers that were standing behind president obama are still the ones back from the hot zone. they're still within the 21-day wind owe? >> reporter: that's right. our dr. sanjay gupta who is in the room with the president, he will be talking to some of the doctors who have returned from west africa in a few moments. i confirmed this from a white house official, some of the health care workers who were with the president are within the 21-day monitoring period, but a white house official cautions, jake, that they are monitoring their symptoms and at this point they are not symptomatic and so in the words of these white house official, these brave heroes don't pose a danger to the president or anybody here at the white house including the rest of us, but what the president is trying to do, jake and he's been trying to do for several weeks is meet with, and get together to as many health care workers who are treating ebola patients

let's go the white house to our cnn senior correspondent there, jim acosta. do we know anything with what they may announce? >> reporter: we'll have to wait and find out and hear. we expect the cdc director tom frieden to have a conference call starting at 3:30 this afternoon. the white house said at that briefing a clip of it you just played there the cdc is expected to announce these guidelines that they want to put out to the states as to what to do with that's health care workers, how to treat these health care workers once they return from west africa. brooke what we'll end up with is a hodgepodge system where different states will have different ebola quarantine policies and we saw a sneak preview of that over the weekend when new york and new jersey stepped out on their own to issue this mandatory quarantine policy that resulted in the confinement of kaci hickox in that tent, in that hospital in new jersey which caused a lot of controversy. she said it violated her reits. and i asked josh earnest during the briefing whether or not the obama administrat

cnn's jim acosta joins us live from the white house. jim, was there talk about an ebola czar on capitol hill. more important than whether or not there was a czar appointed. who is coordinating the national p/e federal response. the president is meeting with cabinet officials and we may be hearing from the ebola response. we've been led to believe that lace monaco. and saying they don't need an ebola czar and that would be another layer of bureaucracy and white house press secretary josh earnest is saying if they need new staffing and resources they'll make that call when it comes and when i pressed josh earnest about lisa monaco's role, he didn't exactly say that she was in response to the response and declined to say who is. here's what he had to say. >> she's not responsible for coored nath the activitieses of the international community as they interact with local governments in west africa. usaid an area of expertise. she's not diagnosing people in the field. >> you understand my question -- >> the point that i have to make is direct

. >> so let's talk about this, joining me now are senior white house correspondent jim acosta and cnn military analyst general james "spider" marks. good morning to both of you. >> hi. >> hi, carol, good morning. >> jim, i want to start with you. an astonishing number of the. 's men bashed his policy, robert gates, robert gibbs, hillary clinton, david axelrod, why? >> reporter: i think robert gibbs and david axelrod have been disagree with the president's tactical decisions, gates, clinton and pa net ta on policy decisions and i love "logic doesn't work in washington" i don't think truer words have ever been spoken but leah pa net ta is not the first to write one of the kiss and tell books and won't be the last. future administration also write these sorts of books but it goes back to this question, carol, this key question president obviously believes he made the right call on and that is whether he should have left a residual force in iraq instead of completely withcrawing from the country at the end of 2011. the president feels he's right on that call. i asked him about this earlie

jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >>> the u.s.assador to the united nations is now in bish's capital. >> that's right. samantha power arrived in monrovia tuesday. she told reporters she wants her visit to show solidarity with the people in west africa, so they know they're not alone in facing this ebola epidemic. >>> the world health organization counts more than 10,000 confirmed or suspected cases of ebola in west africa. more than 4,900 of them have been fatal. it's feared the real numbers could be much higher. >>> we are watching a river of hot molten lava closing in on a town in hawaii. we'll show you what's already been destroyed and what's under threat now. >>> welcome back. some families on hawaii's big island are watching helplessly as lava inches closer to their homes. we can show you some aerial drone footage of how close the flow is to the town of pahoa. >> the river of molten rock had has claimed one structure, just a garden shed. but about 40 to the 50 homes are among the first group of residents in its projected path

let's go to the white house to our senior correspondent there jim acosta who is standing by. we know 2:55, jim, do we know what he'll be addressing? >> well, he's going to be coming out of a conference call that he will have just wrapped up with the usaid, the agency for international development team that is coordinating the ebola response in west africa. i assume he'll have comments about that. but, of course, brock, we'oke, e looking for the president to make comments on all sorts of things. with respect to their quarantine rules. and those states, and also, this issue of where is ron clain, the ebola response coordinator. questions being asked about where he is. we've been assured by white house officials in a briefing that just wrapped up in the last several minutes that he's on the case and he's been doing a good job. but, of course, we haven't seen him yet. we can't really show the viewers doing his job just yet. >> let me stay on that. on the case doing a good job. you know, i've talked to a number of people who worked with him and they said he's fantastic, he's this w

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jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> jurors in florida have returned a first degree murder verdict in the so-called loud music shooting case. michael dunn was convicted wednesday in the racially charged case. he admitted firing into a vehicle full of teenagers killing one of them. dunn claimed he believed the victim had a gun. but investigators say the 17-year-old never had a weapon and dunn kept firing even after the vehicle had fled. davis' parents spoke out after the verdict. >> we are so grateful for the jacksonville community who supported us the last two years. we could not have done this without your prayer s and your support. for those of you we may never know, we may never see. thank you. for uplifting us in prayer for justice for jordan. >> i wanted jacksonville to be a shining example that uktd have a jury made up of mostly white people white men and be an example to the rest of the world to stop the discriminatory practices, stop discriminating, stop looking where we have to look at juries and say what the makeup of juries are. >> dunn was convicted of four related charges

jim acosta, good report. thanks very much.relationship between the prime minister of israel and the president of the united states may not be great right now, in part because of israel's settlement policies in east jerusalem and the west bank, but there are other issues as well. let's go to the pentagon right now. the secretary of defense chuck hagel is answering reporters questions. >> both mill larry in backing the moderate opposition and mr. chairman, for you, can you give us an update on where the train and equip mission stands for the moderate syrian opposition? whether or not the vetting, whether that's begun or not? >> leann, in answering your question, first, the inner agency, all of the agencies relevant to national security in this government, are working on the syria/isil/middle east/iraq issue. certainly the department of defense is a key part of that, but the syria equation of this bigger issue of stability in the middle east, as the president has said, is going to require diplomatic/political solution. that said

first, our senior correspondent jim acosta is at the white house.t you're hearing about the resignation of the secret service director? >> reporter: she submitted her resignation earlier this afternoon. the president called pierson to thank for her her many years of service. but now the white house begins the process of finding a successor. even as the white house was backing her publicly, it was a speedy departure for julia pierson. president obama and his homeland security secretary quickly accepted her offer to step down. >> they both agreed with that assessment because of the recent and accumulating reports that raise legitimate questions about the performance of the agency. >> reporter: and the questions were snowballing. during a presidential visit to the cdc in september, a security contractor, armed with a gun, rode in an elevator with mr. obama, a blatant violation of protocol, a lapse the white house didn't know about until 24 years ago. >> did the director brief the president on that incident? >> i can tell you that the white house first

our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is following the story. seems like there's been a shift in white house strategy as far as the ebola czar is considered over the past few days? >> reporter: a big shift. and the white house is not calling ron klain a czar. he's what they're calling the, quote, ebola response coordinator. and unlike a czar, klain will not be his own boss. hammered for days over its lack of ebola leadership, the white house is confident a remedy is now in place. >> we've got an all hands on deck approach across government to make sure that we are keeping the american people safe. >> reporter: the latest hands on deck, ron klain, tapped to become the president's ebola response coordinator, a former chief of staff to both vice presidents joe biden and al gore, klain was made famous during the 2000 election recount and the film that followed. >> mr. vice president, our battle is not yet done. >> reporter: but klain has no medical experience. what does ron klain know about ebola? >> what we were looking for is not an ebola expert b

thank you very much, jim acosta. >> live pictures from ni hch courtesy of wusa. nina pham, the 26-year-old nurse who contracted ebola from the liberian thomas eric duncan will be flown. she's going to be flown there for specialized treatment. she'll be arriving later on tonight. we're all over the story. the other nurse, the 29-year-old nurse, has been flown to the emory hospital in atlanta. both of nurses now out of dallas. let's talk about all of this with our guests. republican congressman steve scalise of louisiana. you're the majority whip, mr. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> did you get the answers you were looking for today? >> no. if fact, there were many questions from both parties that were not adequately answered by the head of the cdc. one is, what about the protocols? there seems to be a disconnect where the head of cdc said protocols were breached by the nurses in texas yet we had the head of the nurses in texas saying they fouled all of the protocols. someone is not being accurate and that means cdc doesn't h

jim acosta is there. obviously something very concerning and pretty scary for the white house. >> absolutely, erin, we should point out that the white house is not calling this a hacking. but in recent days they were picking up on threats to the computer network here at the white house, and in assessing the threats they're picking up what they call an activity of concern on the unclassified network that serves the executive office of the president. in doing that, erin, what they had to do is take the computer networks down here for a while at the white house. so some executives couldn't use their computer for a while while the investigation was under way. we should point out the investigation is ongoing. they have not been able to determine who was responsible, and when asked, just wouldn't say. and as for a time frame we should point out this may have happened at recently as friday. and there were employees saying that their computer was down. but definitely something very interesting and something that

senior white house correspondent jim acosta joins me now live. days ago that the u.s. health care system knew how to handle this and yet here we are. does it seem like the administration has been caught off guard here? >> i think somewhat, anderson. ten days ago lisa monica, really the unnamed obama czar at this point she's leading the efforts to deal with ebola. she said the u.s. health care system is unmatched when it comes to dealing with ebola and preventing an outbreak from happening here in the u.s. now you hear dr. thomas friedan from the cdc saying he would not be surprised if additional health care workers who came into contact with thomas duncan, whether they may infected. that's why officials in the cdc and the obama administration is taking another look at the procedures for dealing with ebola patients. the possibility has come up that they may start transporting these patients through the biocontainment centers like they have in nebraska where an american journalist is being treated. that's being reviewed. >> members of congress are c

and jim acosta joins me life from the white house. jim, what is the latest there?reporter: the white house is urging the public to be calm as the centers for disease control tries to get a handle of this. president obama at the cdc said it was unlikely for someone with ebola to reach our shores but this patient was said not to pose a risk. here is what he had to say. >> it is our view that we have the medical infrastructure that is necessary to meet -- to try to treat this individual that does have ebola in a way that doesn't pose a significant risk to other patients in the hospital, to the doctors and nurses caring for that individual and certainly doesn't pose a significant risk to the broader community. >> in the meantime, the white house is using social media to spread the facts about ebola. officials have been tweeting ab posting on instagram this message and we can throw it up on screen. it says you can't get ebola through air or water. you can't get ebola through food in the u.s., adding later it can only be spread with the blood or body fluids of people sic

. >> jim acosta is live for us at the white house now. hese lone wolf attacks are a big concern for both the u.s. and canada. >> they are, and that was something that josh earnest was asked about at the briefing. he said u.s. and canadian officials have been having discussions about foreign fighters and lone wolfs who have could be turned against the west by isis in particular and he was careful not to turn the situation into ottawa as u.s. officials have yet to say if there is a terrorist connection and i did talk to a well-placed official, yes, while it is too early to say, they're not ruling it out at this point. >>> coming up, authorities in the u.s. are not taking any chances that a coordinated attack could happen here. what they're doing to secure locations around washington, d.c. our continuing coverage is coming up next. you know how fast you were going? about 55. where you headed at such an appropriate speed? across the country to enhance the nation's most reliable 4g lte network. how's it working for ya? better than ever. how'd y

here's jim acosta. >> it was a speedy departure for secret service director julia pierson.nt obama and his homeland security secretary quickly accepted her offer to step down. >> they both agreed with that assessment because of the recent and accumulating reports that raised legitimate questions about the performance of the agency. >> and the questions were snowballing, well beyond the stunning security breach involving accused white house intruder omar gonzalez. during a presidential visit to the cdc in september, a security contractor armed with a gun rode in the elevator with mr. obaoba a lapse the white house didn't know about until 24 hours ago. >> the white house first learned of that incident yesterday afternoon shortly before it was publicly reported by a news organization. >> thank you very much, mr. president. >> the first female director of the service 18 months ago, her mission was to fix the culture. >> she's breaking the mold and i think that people are extraordinarily proud of her. i couldn't be placing our lives in better hands than julia's. >> pierson took

we're talk shortly about that with jim acosta at the white house, first, the story of a volunteer i mentioned, one you likely never heard of. his name is ryan boyko, who spent time on a tracking system. he was not exposed to one person with ebola symptoms although he did cross paths with the ebola cameraman before he became symptomatic. and before he came home, he twice tested negative for ebola, he was, the doctor said, one person in connecticut who didn't have a virus. he is forced now under quarantine with an armed officer outside his door. ryan, i just want to be extra clear, you don't have ebola, you have never had ebola. you had no contact with anyone who has symptoms of ebola in west africa. you have been tested for ebola. the test came back negative and yet tonight you remain under state-ordered quarantine in your apartment with a police officer standing out there to make sure you don't get out or anybody is in. has anybody given you a reasonable explanation for why that is? >> yes, sadly that is the case, all that is true. nobody from the state department of public health has contact

that was jim acosta reporting for us. >> the world health organization says they are ramping up support for 15 african magss as they try to stem the spread of ebola on that continent. >> they include those sharing borders with those sharing borders already infected by the virus. >> those teams on the ground will know how to react to an infected individual. >> they'll make sure there's enough protection equipment and training so health care workers can avoid getting infected themselves. a rapid response team will be ready to investigate, take samples, confirm ebola cases and trace contacts. >> really every part of the world is doing what it can to contain it, but we've not seen something like this before, so who and where can you complain? and there is some good news as well. the world health organization may soon declare two african nations completely ebola free. they say the end of senegal's outbreak, for example, could take place, will be announced senegal and nigeria, i guess, could be announced on monday. >> and countries need to have 42 days without new cases to be considered clear

. >> all right, thanks to senior white house correspondent jim acosta for that report. >>> meantime,nish health officials released ten people who were on ebola watch monday, including the husband of teresa romer' ramos, the nurd's aide who contracted the virus but is now ebola-free. hur husband is angry at the treatment of both romero and their dog. >> reporter: the husband got out of hospital on monday with a defiant attitude, promising to undo the damage he says his family suffered during this crisis. especially his wife, the nurse's aide, who remains in hospital. she was a member of the medical team at the hospital that treated another ebola patient, a missionary from africa, who came back and died here. the husband demanded the resignation of a senior official from the madrid regional government even though this official has already publicly apologized to the family. >> translator: we want people to be held responsible, and i'm talking the regional health minister, mr. javier rodriguez. he put words in teresa's mouth, claiming she didn't know how to put on the protective suit. >>

jim acosta is standing by, what do we know, jim? >> reporter: anderson, from talking to officials i can tell you about 7:30 this evening, there was another incident, another unidentified man jumped the white house lawn, and was seen running along pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house and tried to make his way towards the white house. but at that point the secret service released its k-9 dogs on that -- individual, he was taken down by two dogs, almost immediately i'm told after scaling the fence. and i'm told from the secret service official that because of the wounds by this individual he will have to go to the hospital. because the dogs moved so quickly and took him down. >> jim, has there been heightened security at the white house in the wake of the attacks here in canada? >> reporter: absolutely. well, in the wake of what has happened in canada, that is something we have not seen throughout the day. but i can tell you there is heightened security right now because of the fence jumping. pennsylvania avenue, by the whit

. >> all right, jim acosta, some say what the new coordinate will be up against is daunting, not surprising, i talked briefly about it, with the supervisor in part of the events regarding ebola. back in august you raised the alarm back then even back then saying you never faced a crisis of this scale and this type. and the situation is only worse now, right? >> yes, indeed. actually, i mean, since months we are saying that this is something completely new for everyone in terms of scale, in terms of number of people infected. in terms of the thing that is in several countries at the same time. and also that in the countries, with the health care system all of those factors together make this crisis very special. >> one of the things he said on the ground that they need in west africa is coordination and leadership there. and the political challenges for the outbreak, the new so-called sa czar and the political analyst, david gergen, what do you think about this? he does not have a medical background but has a background in administration. is that critical? >> i think it is, it would be ideal

as jim acosta reports, critics since the u.s. policy on ebola remains inconsistent. >> good afternoon, everybody. >> president obama tried to address a critical part of an ebola response, containing an outbreak of fear. >> this is something that will get fixed. america in the end is not defined by fear. >> so the president called on states to follow the cdc's less stringent guidelines for people returning from west africa and to steer of quarantine rules. >> we have to make sure the workers who are willing and dedicated to go over there in a really tough job, that they're applauded, thanked and supported. >> that was a not so subtle jab at new jersey governor chris christie who confined a nurse to a tent inside a hospital for roughly three days. christie was asked whether he might be sued. >> whatever, get in line, i've been sued lots of times before. get in line, i'm happy to take it on. >> but as the president tried to calm fears, there was more confusion with the army going beyond protocol and placing some of the soldiers in q

jim acosta is "outfront."s a lot of confusion about whether or not hickox should have been quarantined. obviously she had a feef, christie's excuse for why he put her in the hospital. but she is still in the 21-day period. in maine she'll be forced to stay home as well. chris christie refuses to apologize. we haven't yet heard from the ebola czar. somewhere he in this? >> he's been in a television or press quarantine you mate say. we have not seen ron since he game coordinator a weak and a half ago. he started on the job wednesday. the white house is saying give him some time. you might see more from him soon. what official are telling us, he will be taking on more of a behind the scenes role. this raises the question, today was the perfect example to see the ebola response coordinator because you have all of these various agencies, the federal government weighing in on what happened in new jersey. you have states having the ability to do whatever they want when it comes to quarantines. the white house said ea

. >> jim acosta at the white house. thanks, you two, very, very much. doctors, gentlemen, stay with me. a lot more for you. a lot of questions, including additional confusion around ebola. why can't all of these health officials get on the same page? is that possible? i want to delve a little deeper into that with you two who know this so well. and also, nurse amber vincent. we heard the president say he just got off the phone with her. she is that second dallas nurse who was released and hugged by many medical professionals there at emory. you will hear straight from her how she's feeling, how is she doing today? a big, big day for her. stay here. sweered lobster'sory! endless shrimp ends soon! the year's largest variety. like new spicy siriacha shrimp, or parmesan shrimp scampi. as much as you like, any way you like. but it won't last long, so hurry in today. and sea food differently. >>> just before the president spoke, we had heard from amber vincent, the dallas nurse free of the ebola virus before walking out of emory university hospital today in a

here is what happened today when our jim acosta tried to find out if lisa monaco was indeed the persone. >> she's not overseeing the construction of ebola transmission units in west africa. the department of defense is responsible for that. >> i understand that. but who is in charge of the over all response. >> she is not responsible for coordinating the international community as they interact with west africa. they have an area of expertise. she's not diagnosing the people in the field. >> you are interrupting me because you feel like you have a point to make. you seem reluctant to say who is in charge of ebola. >> i'm making it clear of who is responsible when it comes to this country's tenacious response to ebola. >> tom is "outfront." >> even as the federal government rapidly expands to contain the ebola virus, the response is under withering fire and the white house is playing defense. the press secretary today. >> the administration continues to pursue the kind of tenacious response that will both protect the american public here at home and also do what is necessary to complete

has fallen short and asking who is in charge, it is a question senior white house correspondent jim acostat that press briefing with white house press secretary josh earnest, and here's this exchange. listen. >> reporter: getting back to lisa monaco overseeing the federal response on ebola. >> well, again, i hate to be nit-picky here but what she's doing is coordinating the activities of all the government agencies who are themselves responsible for responding to specific areas of their own expertise. so she's not overseeing that. she's not responsible for coordinating -- >> reporter: she's in charge of the overall response. >> not responsible for coordinating the activities of the international activity. >> reporter: you're interrupting because you feel you have a point to make but you understand my question. >> the point i have to make is relevant. >> reporter: you seem to be reluctant who is in charge of the federal response. >> imi'm reciting who is responsible for which activities when it comes to this government's tenacious response to ebola. >> so did you have an answer out of that?

. >> jim acosta is at the white house. leading up to this press conference, i and other folks were expecting announcements with new measures but the reporters have a good point because the health officials say the u.s. health system is impreg nabl but we've seen a lot of break downs with this case. >> you are right. and there was a lot of skepticism in that room. the white house has been trying all week to calm jitters about the ebola virus is no avail. so with the president away on a town hall on the economy, his security officer said everybody should be calm and dr. anthony fouchy from the national institute of health said it was, quote, extraordinarily unlikely there would be an outbreak of the virus in the u.s. but he didn't say there would not be more cases of ebola. here is what he to say. >> and in your opinion, there is no significant outbreak in the u.s. >> the reason i said that. let me reiterate it. the reason there is an outbreak now because the health care infrastructure and system in those countries is in --

we are joined by justice correspondent pamela brown and jim acosta and justice reporter evan perez. mr. acosta, let us start with you. how did this all play out? >> according to white house press secretary josh earnest, earlier this morning the white house had confidence in secret service director julia pierson and things changed during the course of the day. senior democratic lawmakers are starting to break ranks with this white house and saying they did not have confidence in julia pierson and it was at a meeting earlier this afternoon with dhs secretary jay johnson that julia pierson offered her resignation and following that meeting the president called her to thank her for her years of service. you mentioned this latest security incident that happened on september 16th during which a cdc contractor, security contractor was riding an elevator with president obama during the president's appearance at the agency and that contractor was armed, violating secret service protocols and the white house apparently was unaware of this until just yesterday. i asked josh earnest about that

jim acosta is at the white house briefing room where they are preparing for an ebola press conferenceviously it's one crisis to another, even though the president wants to talk about good economic news, now we have an ebola press conference that might be upstaged by this horrific news of another beheading of a british hostage with an american being threatened next. jim? >> reporter: that's right, jake. and we should point out that lisa monica, the president's counterterrorism and homeland security adviser, she's going to be leading this news conference here in just a few minutes here in the white house briefing room. the president, as you know, is in indiana right now. she was slated to talk about the ebola response here in the u.s. and what's happening in west africa. she's going to be joined by the health and human services secretary. but because this is a news conference and reporters will be asking questions, i think it's possible that lisa monica will be asked this question about this apparent beheading videoing. this is going to be another challenge to this administration. with

i want to go over to the white house where jim acosta is standing by.hat news that was just breaking a short time ago, that the president's canceled his travel today, do you have any more information on it? >> reporter: the president was supposed to head up to connecticut this evening to do an event with dan malloy. that's off. the president is staying here at the white house. he's going to hold a meeting this afternoon with cabinet officials that are dealing with the ebola outbreak. we'll hear from the president. he'll make brief remarks at the conclusion of that meeting, as far as we understand right now. but, ashleigh, in just a few minutes, the white house press briefing will be started. and you can imagine that white house press secretary josh earnest is going to be peppered with questions about the cdc's response to that situation in dallas. the president has been briefed. we have been told that, about this new ebola patient in dallas by his counterterrorism adviser and homeland security adviser, lisa monaco who is coordinating the response to the

sanjay gupta and jim acosta. it sounds like the president was upbeat, overly optimistic about the readiness of the united states to deal with ebola. >> yep. i think that's right. wolf, i think it reflected what i think a lot of people were saying including the leaders at the cdc and even within the nih, and so it sort of -- they all had a similar message that it was an unlikely thing to occur a patient would come here with ebola although they thought it could occur, thought it was unlikely. that has happened. they talked about flight crews would be informed and trained to recognize someone who is sick with ebola, laboratories would be increased in their capacity to test for ebola and i think most importantly, and to this discussion that hospitals would be prepared to be able to take care of patients once they were diagnosed with ebola. so all those things that he talked about back on september 16th have now been tested, wolf, and just once, you know, this dallas hospital and so far track record has not been very

something we learned with our own correspondent jim acosta was the fact that the president didn't even learn about the incident in the cdc elevator in which there was an armed security contractor in there which secret service found out after the fact. they just learned about it yesterday afternoon. >> that is incredible, brooke. that's also part of what you see -- as part of the announcement from the homeland security secretary johnson that they are basically going take control, take over the secret service -- their own internal investigation of the september incident and of this more recent incident, the one we just learned about in the elevator and that's a sign that they don't have any confidence that the secret service is really telling everything and not only to the -- to the homeland security department, but also to the white house, because again, as i mentioned a little while ago, they repeatedly came to the secret service and asked them, is there anything else that we don't know about? and repeatedly the answer came back no. you know everything and we find out from the newspape

let's bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta, he's got the latest. jim? >> white house officials remain confident the u.s. will not experience an outbreak of ebola. but that is not stopping the calls that are starting to crop up from both sides of the aisle for the administration to toughen its response. huddling with top advisers on the ebola scare, president obama offered no public comments when cameras were allowed into the oval office. >> stopping ebola is hard. >> reporter: instead, the white house is letting the cdc do moist of the talking to explain how a nurse in dallas contracted the virus. >> we're concerned and would unfortunately not be surprised if we did see additional cases in the health care workers who also provided care to the index patient. >> reporter: less than two weeks ago, top administration officials insisted the u.s. medical system was unmatched in its ability to keep ebola contained. >> we have a public health infrastructure and medical professionals throughout this country who are capable of dealing with cases if they present t

let's go live to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. he's got the very latest. jim?olf, pretty candid language as they wrap up a meeting with joint chiefs chairman dempsey and others around the world. this is coming as isis is gaining ground but aides to the president say the u.s.-led coalition will not be adopting a new strategy to degrade and destroy isis. josh earnest insisted the president's approach is, quote, succeeding but the president during his remarks to the defense chiefs cautioned that air strikes would lead to a quick victory. >> this is going to be a long-term campaign. we're still in stages. as any military effort, there will be days of progress and there are going to be periods of setback. but our coalition is united behind this long-term effort. >> now, the president did talk about some of the successes the coalition has had early on in the fighting against isis but also conceded that he is, quote, deeply concerned about the security situation in the syrian town of kobani. white house officials admit they are at a disadvantage in the battle against

let's hear from white house correspondent jim acosta. what else are you learning? >> president bush did call stephen harper to express u.s. solidarity with canada. thedid call stephen harper to express u.s. solidarity with canada. the president did condemn the attack that involved a radicalized canadian. the president said the u.s. national security team is working closely with canadian authorities to get to the bottom of what happened in ottawa. >> i don't have all of the information about what motivated the shooting. we don't yet have all of the information about whether this was part of a broader network or plan or whether this was an individual or series of individuals who decided to take these actions, but it emphasizes the degree to which we have to remain vigilant when it comes to dealing with these kinds of acts of senseless violence or terrorists and i pledge, as always, to make sure that our national security teams are coordinating very closely given not only it's canada, one of the closest allies in the world. >> one thing white house press secretary jos

let's bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta who's taking a look at this part of the story. >> reporter: the cdc just came out with new guidelines for states trying to figure out what to do with those health care workers returning from west africa. but the white house said today the federal government won't force those states to follow those protocols. doctors and nurses in the ebola hot zone in west africa will need a careful examination of u.s. quarantine rules back home. the white house says if a state wants to confine a nurse to a tent in a hospital, as in the case of kaci hickox, so be it. if they want to put people in tents, they can do that? >> subject to the laws of these individual states. what we hope and what we think has been true in the vast majority of circumstances is that these kinds of policy decisions should be driven by science. >> reporter: despite new cdc guidelines on how to deal with these returning health care workers, the obama administration is leaving it up to the states, some already stepping forward to come up with their own policies. >> i think

today's briefing at the white house, gloria, our correspondent jim acosta asked josh earnest if the administrationhat life would be like with a republican majority in the u.s. senate. earnest said, they have been focusing on boosting the democratic candidates. there has to be some people in the white house thinking about this a little bit if the republicans do become the majority party in the senate. >> wolf, of course. but they are not going to talk about it, because with just two weeks to go until the election with president obama being a major issue and a lot of these red states, they don't want to talk about the possibility that they could actually lose control of the senate. why would they? that would be silly for them to discuss. they want to talk about winning. .president himself made a little bit of a mistake when he said yesterday that the folks in all of those red states, they may be distancing themselves from him but they vote with him. that is not exactly what those red state senators wanted to hear as they do distance themselves from the president. but from the white house right now w

let's bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. what's the latest?ago trying to motivate democrats for the mid terms. white house officials insist the president has a winning message but aides acknowledge there isn't much time. it is a mid material dilemma for democrats. what to do with an unpopular president? >> the way we win any election is making sure we turn out. >> reporter: cue president obama's home town of chicago where he reminded voters they aren't while about republicans either. >> it is not like they've change their tune. they're still peddling the same thing. >> reporter: in maryland the president suggest gop candidates are exploiting americans' worries about terrorism and ebola. >> you deserve leaders who don't root for failure, don't try to refight the old battles, don't try to peddle fear. >> reporter: but his old party is also concerned. that's why with two weeks to go, the president is appearing mostly with candidates for governor and the more popular michelle obama is the campaigner of choice in close senate races. only two years

let's get the latest from our white house senior correspondent jim acosta. what's going on with the u.s.-israeli relationship. >> the white house quickly jumped into white house damage control after offensive comments directed at benjamin netanyahu from an unnamed senior obama administration official on the strained relations between the u.s. and israel. using a nickname for netanyahu and saying the thing about bibi is he is a chicken [ expletive ] and he offered some heated comments of his own in a speech in israel saying, quote, i have been on the battlefield many times. i risked my life for the country, and i am not willing to make concessions that would endanger our country. now many of these disagreements between the obama administration and netanyahu are well known and center around iran's nuclear program and expansion of settlements like east jerusalem when asked whether the president should personally reach out and apologize to netanyahu, the white house declined to say whether that would even happen. here's what josh earnest had to say. >> -- called