lauren baer was senior advisor to secretary of state hillary clinton during the obama administration e are still steps that can be taken to help control the world today.pandemic facing the so lauren, what did we learn as a government, as a country from fighting ebola? >> earlys action critical to getting ahead of an infectious disease an forestalling a potential pandemic. and what we realized right from the outset was that this had the potential to be not on a public health crisis, but also an economic crisis, also a grave threat to america's nationalty secuand because of that, because it was such a complex and multifaceted problem, we eded a coordinated whole of government response right from that's why you saw the obama administration create an ebolaar and that's why you saw it lead in the wake of ebola an entire office within the national security council dedicated to dealing with the risk of pandemics and response to them if they arose. >> sreivasan: what's the difference on whether that office exists at the nfc or it doesn't? the difference is do you have the players and the expe