. >> secretary of labor during johnson's administration. >> kennedy and johnson. i am not prepared for that question. without having a long list, i don't think there are a lot of people -- there are some politicians who i think do a good job, who are on the good side. >> you have a favorite president? >> kennedy, he was the president i knew the best and was closest to. i went on a trip that had been arranged by tom lovejoy, an assistant secretary. a great environmental expert. we went down to the rain forest in brazil with congressman. led by senator tim worth of colorado. al gore. and lots of other people. lying in a hammock in the jungle -- >> can you talk about how presidents have dealt with people? people that have done it the wrong way and the right way? the fact that george bush has met with the press so often, did that work to his advantage? and wisely presidencies as you saw them from your post -- analyze the presidencies as you saw them from your post? >> i have been interested in which presidents like the press. they are all dependent on the press, inclu

because i am like you, congressman i have known people in the secret service sinned the lyndon johnson administration and these are great people who put their lives on the lines, patriots to the core kerr and this thing seems to be coming apart. >> one of the things -- >> i don't think it is necessarily all of a -- all of a sudden, by the way. i think that based upon some information we have gotten from whistle blowers, this goes back a ways. and just the information has not come out. don't get me wrong, the secret service is a great organization, but you have got -- we have got to look at certain things, like training, there has been a reduction in training. again, morale. this whole idea of reduction, with regard to high turnover. things of that nature. and it has led to a group of secret service agents who feel more comfortable, bob, coming to the congress and even going to their own superiors, and it seems as if we have a secrety service that doesn't even trust itself and that leads us to a lot of problems. and so ms. pearson, the director, the former director, she was in kind of a tough situatio

secretary of labor during johnson's administration. >> kennedy and johnson. i am not prepared for that question. without having a long list, i don't think there are a lot of there are some politicians who i think do a good job, who are on the good side. >> you have a favorite president? >> kennedy, he was the president i knew the best and was closest to. with -- thatrip had been arranged by tom lovejoy, and assistant secretary. a great environmental exi expert. we went down to the rain forest in brazil with congressman. led by senator tim worth of colorado. gore. and lots of other people. -- seem to beake good people. >> can you talk about how presidents have dealt with people? people that have done it the wrong way and the right way? the fact that george bush has met with the press so often, did that work to his advantage? and wisely presidencies as you saw them from your post -- analyze the presidencies as you saw them from your post? >> i have been interested in which presidents like the press. they are all dependent on the press, including television. my

because they were able to get the ear of bureaucrats who were still around, you know, after johnson administration left and the nixon administration began. they were more successful, and if you remember, president nixon actually embraced welfare reform, not the kind of welfare reform necessarily you saw in '96 under president clinton, but something that did cut everybody a check who fell below a certain income. now, the devil's in the details. the details weren't particularly friendly to welfare recipients, but there was at least a conversation going on between this conservative republican administration and welfare rights activists, and a lot of that really comes out of the poor people's campaign moment. it doesn't succeed, of course, but, yeah, yeah, the poor people's embassy was a missed opportunity, and there's definitely some errors that were made in the process. >> yeah. thank you for that. >> carlos. >> what did i want to say overall is that there were some gains and victories that we got in the '60s out of that whole movement, and in terms of affirmative action, ethnic studies, you know. w

look at ideological passion gets matched with political opportunities, that's 1960s and the johnson administrationive, the>b comparable is reagan and the '80s. we don't think about the fact they were contemporaries. born less than three years apart. they are shaped by the same world events. their world views are product of coming age in the same america. if you go back actually 50 years ago this fall, lyndon johnson on his way to winning the largest popular vote in american history and same time ronald reagan emerging as a political figure as the only republican in the country who makes a compelling case against johnson. what i wanted to do was tell the story of 1,000 days in the mid-1960s when you see these guys offering a new vision for politics that shapes a lot of the contest we see in the 50 years that follow. >> there's a lot of similarities between the men they dream of being. i love this sentence. reagan and johnson were at heart driven by the same fundamental need to be the hero and receive the world's admiration and acclaim. one was a rancher down in the muck. that's lbj. the other was a

because they were able to get the ear of bureaucrats who were still around, you know, after johnson administration left and the nixon administration began. they were more successful, and if you remember, president nixon actually embraced welfare reform, not the kind of welfare reform necessarily you saw in '96 under president clinton, but something that did cut everybody a check who fell below a certain income. now, the devil's in the details. the details weren't particularly friendly to welfare recipients, but there was at least a conversation going on between this conservative republican administration and welfare rights activists, and a lot of that really comes out of the poor people's campaign moment. it doesn't succeed, of course, but, yeah, yeah, the poor people's embassy was a missed opportunity, and there's definitely some errors that were made in the process. >> yeah. thank you for that. >> carlos. >> what did i want to say overall is that there were some gains and victories that we got in the '60s out of that whole movement, and in terms of affirmative action, ethnic studies, you know. w

and two there and then through president -- vice president johnson's influence, one was brought back for the kennedy administration. and then the johnsons returned it to the capitol. the capitol didn't give it away. it was in the rules committee room was the other one. >> my understanding, they are now at the -- the speaker rooms. ceremonial office an the east side and then the speakers office next door. i don't know, but -- >> i didn't know that. they were origin aally put in b general grant in the depression for his daughter's wedding. natalie's wedding to an englishman which took place in the east room. and then there are wonderful pictures of 1902 them being taken down and lined up by the parts on the floor in the room. and there was a question about keeping them, but mckim wouldn't have heard of it. thank you. >> would you speak about the history of the oval office? >> yes. we have an author here that is going to write a history of the oval office for our white house history. the oval office was an invention of taft. and the apparent reason for it was taft was -- all presidents are smart. he was a very shrewd

as director, i have worked with the department of homeland security, secretary johnson, the administration and congress, to include members of this committee, to develop a comprehensive forward-leaning strategy to further enhance the secret service's workforce and operational capabilities. we remain dedicated and committed to protecting the president, the first family and the sanctity of the white house. i thank the committee today for the opportunity to appear and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you. mr. basham? >> mr. chairman, ranking member cummings -- >> could you turn the mic on and pull it a little closer, please? try that. >> mr. chairman -- thank you -- ranking member cummings, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to share my perspective today on the recent events at the white house and more broadly, on the state of the agency i care a great deal about, the united states secret service. let me say at the outset that i look forward to discussing how the recent incident highlights some of the challenges the secret service has long faced at

in late 1967 in which of the year the election i'm talking about took place, johnson and other in his figures administration went around the called the hat they success offensive making the case we have finally turned the vietnam, that success was near. new year in vietnam is like thanksgiving in our country. in 1968 varies from year to year. happened to fall on january 30. because it was a holiday and a among read understanding the south vietnamese that a fire would be in place in de facto basis, the soldiers went back to their home villages with ighborhoods to be their families. the north vietnamese with the the vietcong, a ommunist force took that occasion in an attack they never had before, the major cities of including saigon, including for a few years of the g portions american embassy in saigon. studied the tet offensive militarily has concluded it ended up being a military victory for the united states and the south allies.se the facts could not compare with psychological effect of the tet offensive that they were out leg, and the last that the war was drawn to a close. 1968, by march, the opular ch

this is bruce johnson reporting from southeast washington. wusa9. >> the gray administration has a campaign to find permanent housing for 500 families city wide, including those in dc general. the city reported today nearly 400 families have found housing so far. >> this would be the latest in a series of plans to finally close that huge shelter. >> until that happens, the children who live there need a safe and supervised place to play. tomorrow, a playground will officially open there. we have teamed up with the homeless children's play time project to keep it that way. help them play. if you'd like to help, text the word playtime to 25543. >>> the three people who all want to take over mayor vince gray's job will meet for a final debate. you can watch it right here. our very own, bruce johnson is the moderator and you can watch it live at 6:30 on thursday at wusa9.com. and then tune in for a one hour special friday evening from 7:00 to 8:00. >>> no crosswalks, no stop sign and this intersection is right by a local school. montgomery county's reason for not put ago crosswal

johnson for at&t i have a couple of brief remarks for the administrative native record dpw's positions the permits is properly granted under the older owners which means the department found under the subject active guidelines it didn't have access to the public right-of-way she's not offered argument that the proposed maps would either violate the guidelines under the older smf guide order and while at&t is sympathetic to her concerns about graffiti as a matter of fact, of state law that's not a basis to didn't think the evasion permits and the argument she's making that utility cabinets at&t utility cabinets shouldn't be allowed in san francisco because the tag was denied by board of supervisors filing on the facts i ask the gentleman from at&t about this cabinet i could not say that but they say in the no an at&t cabinet because at&t didn't put locks on their cabinet given that no evidence has been prepared by appellant it would imcommodity access there's no denial for the permit i want to make remarks for the record dpws position that despite the fact they concede that the permit w

johnson is right. members of congress, all the administration, we need to be careful to present the facts to the american people. not high besh lee. there's enough concern about isis and ebola without hyping the threat. there's been no evidence that there have been attempted infiltrations. >> the arrests are not of isis people. >> that's right. that's right. and, you know, both in terms of not overstating the threat from isis and the threat is real but it's a measured threat. we're responding to it, i think, in a forceful way. not overstating the considerable challenge of ebola. i think it's important to make sure we have a prudent response, a passionate response. a strong. >> let's talk about kobani maybe 40% of the city has fallen to isis fighters. it could fall to isis. what does it mean and what are the impact it is would have? >> it would be devastating, obviously, to all the people that live in kobani. many which have fled and others that have remained behind. you could have a humanitarian catastrophe there if there's a significant number of civilians. i think most of the people are probably fighte

and commissioner hillis or commissioner johnson arrest commissioner richards commissioner fong and tuptd smoechldz unanimously 7 to zero and zoning administrator what say you. >> close the public comment and grant the variances. >> thank you commissioners as noted earlier you'll be taking item 12 out of order on van ness avenue request for large project authorization. >> good afternoon commissioners rick with the department staff the project is a large authorization for the promoted project on van ness under the seeking of the modification for the rear yard permitted obstructs over alleys and open space dwelling exposure it includes the vacant autobiography station and the residential building you approximately, six hundred and 75 secret of rail and 48 off-street parking it is consistently which 41 two bedroom units and a second floor terrace and roof-deck today, the public receives krorpdz that have support or opposition it has the onsite it is located between the zoning district and with the affordable housing requirement this requires 16 percent of the total unit to be designated as part of the inclusionary project program it includes 72 un

administration. literally in the president's backyard. it's obvious that secretary johnson told director pierson this morning that she had to resign. these resignations do not -- oh, i'll submit my resignation and see if you accept it. that's not the way it works. it's obvious she was woefully ill prepared and underprepared for yesterday. sent her up there knowing she would embarrass herself and be forced to resign or she somehow thought that a cavalier, uncaring, again robotic attitude she manifested yesterday, would somehow satisfy the legitimate demands of everybody across the board for why wasn't the president protected. why didn't you know the sign language guy had been convicted of murder. why didn't you know the guy in the elevator was carrying a gun and charged with assault three times. you have an obligation to know this. how could you let somebody with a gun get in a small elevator with the president. she couldn't answer that stuff. >> when someone ran across the yard and got into the house, your response would be, well, our agents exercised great restraint. bad i

fifty years ago president johnson said america will end poverty by doing that. >> this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. [applauding] >> he expanded social security to include more people. expanded the food stamp program. created the job core and more. and look how it's reduced poverty. in the first sten years of the war on poverty, the poverty rate dropped from 17 percent to 12 percent. that's great success. but wait a second. look at the years right before the war on poverty began. americans were already lifting themselves out of poverty without the welfare programs. and now, look at this graph that shows what's happened since the war began, after five, ten years of improvement, americans stopped making progress. the poverty rate has gone up and down. what happened? earlier i asked congressman paul ryan what happened. >> we basically decided to measure poverty based on inputs. how much money are we spending? how many people are we putting on these programs? we're basically managing poverty. and as a result we're perpetuating poverty.

this is bruce johnson reporting from southeast washington for wusa9. >> the gray administration has acampaign to find permanent housing for 500 families city wide, including d.c. general. the city reported today that 393 families have found housing so far. >>> this is the latest plan in a series to finally close the city's largest shelter, but until that happens, the children who live there need a safe and supervised place to play. tomorrow, a playground is going to officially open there. we have teamed up with the homeless children's play time project to keep it open. the campaign is called, help them play. you can text the word play time to 25543. >>> a montgomery county man is fighting for his life tonight after he was trapped in an apartment fire. it happened at the mallard apartment complex. firefighters had to break a window just to save him. he was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. no one knows what started the fire, but furniture, paper, and debris were cluttered on the patio. as you can see, some neighbors did complain about it. two complex managers. >> all my nei

coming from the office of the homeland security secretary, jay johnson, who is announcing the retirement of transportation security administrator john pistole, who has been on the job really since 2010. he is the guy really behind a lot of the issues we're dealing with in airports as far as the tsa. including the tsa pre, which is a relatively new thing that up to 5 million passengers in the u.s. use every day when they use the nation's airport. but to be clear he is retiring after being in that position since june of 2010. and now, let's talk about something else. and we're going to bring it a lot closer here to south florida. this. governor, florida governor rick scott. our incumbent governor and the republican, we have been told that governor scott will not be participating in this debate. now, let me explain what this is all about. ladies and gentlemen -- ladies and gentlemen. >> this is great. this is -- welcome to south florida. welcome to florida, never a dull moment here in the sunshine state. charlie crist, taking center stage last night before the real debate between crist and scott even began, scott apparently accusi

commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner johns and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously zoning administrator what say you close the public hearing. >> thank you, commissioners item 12 for the next case at 5420 mixing is request for a mandatory discretionary review. >> commissioner richards. >> i want to let the commission know i don't have a conflict of interest but i sit open the board in my neighborhood that will not make me impartial in my sense to this project. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and members of the planning commission the item before you is an application for a mandatory discretionary review for a building permit application on mission street project side on the north side of admission on ottawa in the occurred mission district and mailings falls within a height district proposal so establish a new mcd the now vacant space is seven hundred plus thousand square feet with 25 feet with frontage along mixing and no physical expansion the proposed mixed use will operate and dispose of medical cannabis and have on site smoking the density will not incorporate the medic

that those plans are being developed and that's why i wrote to the administration last week to secretary kerry and to secretary johnsonm to confirm or deny it and to produce any documents related to that. this is simply a matter of common sense that if you are concerned about thisds problem spreading and this is a deadly disease that we're even concerned about the great health care workers when they come back not spreading it, we certainly shouldn't be bringing in the patients. >> so did somebody leak to you, a whistleblower type tell you this? >> we received information from within the administration. >> and have you received in response to your letter asking whether it's true? >> no, we have not received any response from the administration nor have we received, by the way, a response from an earlier letter that i and trae gowdy sent to the president pointing out to him that he has authority under the current immigration and nationality act to impose a temporary ban on all non-u.s. citizen visits to the united states of anyone from those three countries who have been there in the last 30 days or from another country

administration. i suspect many of you have seen the statement from the secretary of homeland security jay johnson. in that statement he noted that he had accepted this afternoon the resignation of julie pearson, director of the united states secret service. before we get to your questions, let me just tell you this afternoon the president had the opportunity to telephone director pearson. to express his appreciation for her service to the agency and to the country. she dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the united states secret service and to the important work they do over there. as i mentioned yesterday, she spent several hours in front of the camera yesterday answering difficult questions from members of congress. in the context of that interaction she took responsibility for the shortcomings of the agency that she led and she took responsibility for fixing them. that, quite simply, is a testament to her professionalism and her character. so, with that, jim, why don't you get us started on questions today. >> thanks, josh. in that phone call, had she already submitted her resignation o

negotiated with the administration, both kennedy and johnson, to make sure that this was a bill that everyone could support. as everybody knows, you know, the big problem was how do you get around the southern democrats. so you had to have an alliance with the republicans. but a lot of those republicans have been forgotten. and, you know, guys like mcculloch were the ones who were making sure that there was enough support for the bill among people who naturally were not, you know, were not naturally disposed to support it. another guy that i just think was a wonderful character and deserves a lot more attention in american history is a man named jay irwin miller who was the president of or chairman of cummins engine, and they're still one of biggest diesel manufacturers in the world. in the early '60s, he was not only the head of his company, but he was the first lay chair of the national council of churches. and he was a liberal republican from a small town in indiana, and friends with john f. kennedy, but also friends with bill mcculloch and a bunch of republicans, and he helped or

administration's playbook. we just heard yesterday homeland security secretary jay johnson addressing the possibility of ebola makinginto the united states through its borders, and he shot that down. erin? >> thank you very much, renee march. >>> and joining me, the former health spokesperson, dr. walks. and you heard what the general said. he is the top commander in south america and what we heard him say is shocking, talking about, as he said, a few black guys on the border and that they were planning to head illegally to new york city. talking about that would be well within the incubation period for ebola. is he right to be worried about liberians coming to through the southern boards. >> i think he should take those to the doctors, to decide how we move and advise people like him. making policy without a background to make policy, no, it doesn't make any sense to me what he is saying. and i'm sorry, are we now magically going to learn how to close the southern border of the united states. it doesn't make any sense. we have not historically been able to do that. let's talk about what we can do. other countries h

the omb director, jay johnson, the secretary of homeland security, sean donovan, the director of the office of administration and budget. dr. tom frieden, the director of the cdc, and a number of advisors to president obama and at this meeting they detailed for him the contact tracing method that is have been used as far as dallas is concerned as well as the other national measures that they are taking in order to insure that a situation like dallas does not happen again, deb. >> so today on cnn's state of the union with candy crowley, senator ted cruise demanded that the president ban flights from countries hit hard by ebola. let's take a listen. >> it's the first argument about the screens doesn't make sense because they don't work during the 21-day incubation period, and the second argument that they make is they say a travel ban would prevent health care relief workers from arriving in west africa. no one is talking about banning flights into west africa. of course, physicians and nurses and health care workers should be allowed to go in there and we can send them on charter flights or military c-130 air

johnson found out, and just like ben bradlee and the idea that his administration was leaking to the east and influence press corps so much that he holds an impromptu press conference and announcing -- announces that he is appointing j. edgar hoover director for life. and as he is stepping down peace says, tell bradley i said forget you, except he did not use the words forget. [laughter] so it was always a little tough. >> what is the future of republican politics? >> i was a practicing journalist working for the houston chronicle. so i am going to jump in to this answer to say that, of course, the 24 hour news cycle, instantaneous communication affect our politics to a degree unknown in past times if only because the expectation of that news cycle is that public officials are immediately, instantaneously weiss with regard to what is happening at all and what to do about it. no human being is capable of doing that. in past times when communication was much slower public officials did have the luxury of thinking were discussing these matters before they spoke and acted. that is a luxu

administration. i suspect that many of you have seen the statement from the secretary of homeland security jeh johnson. in that statement he noted that he had accepted this afternoon the resignation of julia pierson, director of the united states secret service. let me just tell you this president had an opportunity to telephone director pierson to express his appreciation for her service to the agency and to the country. she dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the united states secret service and to the important work that they do over there. as i mentioned yesterday, she spent several hours in front of the cameras yesterday answering difficult questions from members of congress. in the context of that interaction, she took responsibility for the shortcomings of the agency that she led and she took responsibility for fixing them. that quite simply is a testament to her professionalism and her character. so with that, jim, get us started on questions today. >> thanks, josh. in that phone call, had she already submitted her resignation or did the president ask for it? >> in a meeting earlier th

administration, you wouldn't. much -- thanky you very much. [applause] >> commissioner johnsonthe host, and all of you for being here. i am pleased that we are having the first debate. it has been frustrating to watch istruths and the lies that you have had on tv. whether that i would cut the minimum wage, cut education -- which i voted three times against. it is good to be able to talk directly to the people and let them choose on their own. let me share my vision. it is a vision of a state where every kid has access to a great education and a great teacher, regardless of where they live or how rich or poor his or her parents are. where patients and doctors are making health care decisions, not insurance companies and eurocrats. a state where politicians understand the middle-class works hard for their money. and we spend it -- and they spend it as carefully as if it were coming out of their own pocket. a state where entrepreneurs want to start a business. we will want businesses to expand here. n who isnnesota willing to work at a full-time job. i have a vision of a state whe

that the obama administration is reportedly pressuring cristy and new york governor andrew cuomo to change this policy. >> thank you very much for that upda update. meantime, the ceo of johnson and johnson announcing plans to test an ebola vaccine in humans this january. the goal, to have up to a million doses by spring time. >> we have been working on this for some time. as the case with science, you have a hypothesis and test it out. there are scientists who made a lot of progress by taking a focused approach with our v vaccines and combining it with another company's vaccine and getting a prime boost approach. >> human testing is underway on amount experimental ebola vaccine. expected before the end of the year. a horrifying attack last week on the streets of new york city surveillance video as you're watching capturing a hatchet wielding man attacking police before two other officers shot and killed him. sparking fears of more lone wolf attacks and peter live in washington with more. >> this week an attack with a gun in canada and attack with a hatchet in new york having intelligence officials on the lookout for lone wolf terrorists who may already be in this country. >>

administration, you wouldn't. thanks very much. [applause] we can do that after closing statements. commissioner johnson, you are next. >> thank you for all of you for being here. i have to admit really pleased we are finally having this first debate. i will be honest, it has been frustrating the last couple of months to watch some of the lies, governor, that you and some of your supporters have had i will whether it is cut the minimum wage. i have never said that. cut education funding. i never did that. i've voted to increase education funding. it is nice to share our visions directly to people and let them choose on their own. but me tell you my vision. i am sharing it all over the state. it is a vision where every kid in the state has access to a great education and two great teachers, regardless of how rich or poor his or her parents are and where patients and doctors are making health care decisions, not government bureaucrats. it is a state where allocations understand the middle class work hard for our money and they spend it as carefully as though it is coming out of their own pocket. we are no

johnson and thank you very much. >> i feel like i'm going to stand on my own i'm not in support of the continuance i feel that mr. star and the administrator has spent open the process this is only phase one of a multi phase project that will be given in pieces and will have a public you know will have public input but i want to address so i want to address a couple of things and move on i have questions about the decisions that were made and i know that mr. star really stuck to his promise and not make substantive changes i want to ask about a suggestion that maybe mr. star felt were on the gray line but i won't do it if we have a continuance but i'll say a couple of things and would love to potentially move to see if there's a majority on the continuance item so we can move on to the next item ms. high on a hill it calls to me son gave a document and without being disrespectful i tried to get through to for the record i was sitting on the excision on the july hearing and reviewed the video from the june hearing i read the entire document all 4 hundred almost 5 hundred pages by august 31st and had it continued to today in october i feel p

johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu snoemdz unanimously 6 to zero and places you on. >> close the public comment grant the variance with the reasons previous stated. >> thank you zoning administrator and that will place us on item 14 at 2809 on polk this is is a kwe6 an abbreviated one. >> i'm carli planning staff the item before you is a request for discretionary review for building permit at 2809 through 11 possible street in a 40 x heightened district it includes a one story height and deck and 4 foot decrease on an existing 4 story this and has a configuration including an additional of an elevator the person who royals subject adjacent to the public filed a discretionary review mr. the gentleman states he is concerned that increasing the building area will be out of character and the 3 story will block whatever light that is enjoyed by the residents the project sponsor says the dr requesters property is blocking its own air and it is respectful the neighbors to date the department has one letter of support and one of opposition both from adjacent neighbors those communications were received after our packet were delivered the request for a discretionary review was presented f

administration, you would not. >> thanks very much. [applause] do that after closing statements. commissioner johnson, you are next. dark up thank you, and thank you a -- .> thank you, jay i am pleased we are having this first debate, because i will be honest it has been frustrating governor,he lies, that you and some of your supporters have had on tv about me the last couple of months, whether it is i will cut the minimum wage. i have never said that. whether i would cut education funding. i never did that. visionsce to share our directly to people and let them choose on their own. let me tell you what my vision is. it is a vision of a state where every kid in the state has access to a great education, regardless of where the kid lives or how rich or poor his or her parents are. and that patients and doctors are making health care decisions, not insurance companies and not government bureaucrats. we in the middle class work really hard for our money, and they spend it as carefully as though it is coming out of their own pocket -- we are not seeing that now. it is a state where entrepreneurs want to start a busines

administrator. >> before that he spent 26 years with the fbi including serves as the deputy director. homeland security secretary jay johnson said because of his efforts our country's transportation systems are for safe and secure. >>> the world series match-up is now set. the san francisco giants will play the kansas city royals in game one tuesday after travis ishikawa slammed a walkoff three run home run in the bottom of the 9th to win the nlcs last night against the st. louis cardinals. the kansas city royals clinched their spot wednesday which will make the royals' first world series trip in 29 years. >>> the dallas nurse who was the first to contract ebola inside the united states is now being treated at the national institutes of health in bethesda. nina pham thanked her dallas co- workers in a video before she left. >> pham's colleague amber vinson who was also infected is being treated at emery hospital in atlanta. we have delia goncalves at nih she'll have a life report coming up later this hour. >> now we want to ease any concerns this morning about a report of a possible case of ebola in our area. loudoun hospit

administration has a clear strategy to isis. when it comes to the president's job performance on terrorism, 41% approve, 53% disapprove. homeland security secretary jay johnson warned about isis but also cited the threat of core al qaeda without suggesting it has been decimated as the president has claimed many times. johnson declaring, quote, today the terror threat is different than what it was in 2001, it is more decentralize ed and more complex. not only is there core al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan, there's a series of al qaeda affiliates all around the world. >> core al qaeda is no longer decimated, that they are part of this threat matrix? >> ed, we stand by what is demon strapably true. it has been decimated and destroyed. >> reporter: meanwhile isis continues to gain territory inside iraq, on the outskirts of baghdad after a wave of attacks in the shiite parts of the capital. official at the pentagon say baghdad is not under any direct threat of falling, at least not yet. >> they can continuously suppose a net to the capital city and we continuously in concert with iraqi security forces are trying to put them back. but it should come as no surp

with commonsense solutions as the administration and experts are trying to do, we've got republican candidates like scott brown and rand paul out there and ron johnson out there who have really just dug into the politics of fear like let's scare the voters so much they won't have a choice and, frankly, part of it is because the republicans haven't had much else to say. >> and we're talking -- >> this is a legitimate policy issue. should there or should there not be what people call a travel ban or no -- >> we're talking -- >> neighboring countries, oh, really. and confidence -- neighboring countries to liberia and sierra leone, poor little countries have said, i'm sorry, you can't travel from liberia or sierra leone to our country unless you have an emergency reason to do so. they have protected their citizens so far from ebola. that's not fearmongering or closing yourself off from the world but protecting your citizens. >> respectfully we are talking three people here, number one. let's put this in context. the media culture again always blows things up. three people we're talking about in a country of 300 million people. number one. number two, wh

johnson has announced the resignation is varying. it is worth noting coupummings supportive. how much more do you expect to hear republicans call for greater change at the secret service and further blame on this administratione you see bipartisan calls for further change at the secret service. i mean, what we've just gone through here, reading those articles, you say there's something just deeply wrong here that needs to be fixed. and sure, i think the republicans will try to lay this off somehow on president obama. but this is an agency where in some ways their job is to protect the president. it's not an agency where i don't think we ever expected our president, or republican or democrat to be deeply involved. he needs to rely on them. i want to say, i'm really worried about these failures to follow rules in protocol, it becomes an excuse to further keep americans away from the white house and further isolate the president of the united states. we shouldn't make it even harder for average citizens to shake the president's hand. there's a long way between that and a felon getting on the elevator with him in the white house. i hope we reform the secret service but hopefully not to put the president into a m