the final objective, united states troop aircraft assemble for the long trip back to the united states to the united states armed forces. despite the dust the giant , planes airlift men and equipment back to united states safely and on schedule. it is important to realize that for the first time in our history, an entire army airborne brigade with all of its heavy equipment was transported 12,000 miles on an ally's call for assistance to help stem the tide of aggression in their country. united states military officials have devoted considerable effort to the evaluation of exercise delawar and the contributions to the defense of the free world. they believe the success of the exercise has given a strong boost to the central treaty organization. united states and iranian fighting men have gained invaluable experience, both in staff and command function and combined operations in the field. this effort helps prove the differences in language and customs need not be a barrier to allies working and fighting together for a common cause. the exercise demonstrated that joint operating procedu

these countries are free riders on the united states by enacting price controls on drugs. how about of the burden of life-saving drugs and devices come affect comparison between the united states and the countries we're discussing today? that's to you, miss cheng. >> thank you for this question. first of all, the -- yes, we -- the united states does fund a whole lot of r&d in pharmaceuticals, and other innovations. but in so doing, we are also helping to make the american health care system that much more expensive. in fact, so expensive that we're pricing people out of the health care. all together. so the united states is -- you know, so in terms of r&d in single payer systems, i think it is the governments of these systems, can set aside specific r & d funds to help with r & d innovations. >> when we shifted from exclusively to doing bypass surgery for heart blockage, and we went to catheterization, because innovation allowed us, or technology allowed us to do catheterization, do you consider that to be a cost savings to the united states? or the expense of a new innovat

in germany, they've decided to target the united states. they decide that the only way to keep the united states out of the war is to bring terror to our shores. they decide that they need to stop the united states from sending arms and material to the allies who are fighting against germany. so they begin to target the united states. it's a time when the united states realizes that this is a nation full of targets. the cia has looked back on this period and they point to -- this homeland and the man who is made in charge of this defense of the homeland, captain tom tony and i'll speak about him, really is the first head of homeland security. he and his little 12-man squad are really the precursers of a homeland security network which now has 240,0p÷ people and an annual budget of $98.8 billion. it's also a time where we learn to live with fear. now, to understand where this story begins, i think we have to go back to two months before the war, before the war has broken out in europe. and we have to go to germany, berlin where walter nick l

from a security point of view come after the united states has been attacked by terrorists in the middleeast, it was quite rational for the president of the united states to focus on a country that he genuinely believed was building nuclear weapons. it turned out to be wrong but it is also wrong to say that this was faith-based that he it had violated a cease-fire agreement on many occasions certified by the united nations and which might be and which might encourage a terrorist activity in the region. and in the clinton administration in 1998, the senate voted 98-nothing and the clinton side this was not the idea that bush introduced and i supported that part of it. where i disagreed with bush was that after saddam had been overthrown, that we had the capacity to make a democracy out of the country during military occupation. but not only was it islamic and therefore different approach to the notion of pluralism, but also in which the -- that is a profound division between the shia and the sunni part in a profound division between the kurds and the sunni and shia so i think that that is

this idea that the united states it creates a practical problem. t me give you an experience i know about. in 1973, there was the science of wanting to move out of the soviet into the relationship of the united states come in from the point of view of stability in the middle east and peace in the region we strongly encouraged it. of course we knew that he was an autocratic ruler but i thought of him as a great man who contributed tremendously to the peace process in the region and i wish we hadn't said that with one who could feel and then he was succeeded by mubarak. in any one year the american president and security advisor have a finite number of problems that it's possible to deal with when you don't know what the outcome will be and when the outcome may be not at all democratic. that doesn't say that every discussion was correct but to say simultaneously the united states wouldn't be involved everywhere and to say however they should overthrow the government i understand what you said. i am not saying that america has always acted consistently

states, which goes back to the transparency, the united states is the only country i'm aware of in world history that created a secret agency and then announced it. in 1947, the united states passed the national security act and they said, we're starting a spy agency over here! by the way, when did britain acknowledge the existence of mi6? i think it was 1994 or 1995. australia, another very transparent, enlightened nation, acknowledged the existence of secret intelligence service in 2001. so spy services really are a part of the modern world but the united states is an odd hybrid. we try to do it consistent with our values but at the same time it's a tough situation. other questions? by the way, i've got to tell you, i, myself, am shy about questions. i know you do not believe this but when i sit in your seat, i'm always thinking, oh, that sounds dumb, i can't ask that. so any question, i'll be thrilled. >> i have one. back to your interesting and provocative introduction, what happens now? where should we be going? do you have any thoughts? mos

>> sometimes you can read all this and that russia can live well without the united states, and in theunited states saying that united states can exist without russia. and it's true. we can live. but what does it mean, "we will"? we know that we have common problems, we can -- a lot of threats growing. after the cold war, all problems regional -- not only regional, they are growing without any solution. and it's clear that the international community needs cooperation and not to live in their own country. that's why i think that i totally, i cannot agree with such statements, we can live well without each other. we need each other. i published this article, that is why i'm not saying here, the u.s. and russia need each other now more than ever. because this is what i concede, and we want to -- and we demonstrated many times when we are together, we're trying to work -- for example, after september 11th we participated together in creating antiterrorist coalition, and we worked very constructively together in afghanistan and in other places gaining information of terrorism. and i think

the germans had threatened the united states long before 1942. in 1916 while world war i was raging in europe, americans felt safe. imperial germany was waging an all-out war against britain and france but the fighting was taking place more than 3,000 miles away across the atlantic ocean. americans were more concerned about baseball. although president woodrow wilson had officially declared the united states neutral in the conflict, we were supplying the british and french with munitions and germans knew it. using a manhattan brownstone as a headquarters, several german spies organized an attack against america. at 2:08 a.m. on july 29th, 1916, an enormous explosion occurred near the statue of liberty at a place then called black tom island. >> plaqblack tom was an ammunit depot off the coast of new jersey in new york harbor and it had an extraordinary amount of explosives. >> richard powers is a history professor at city university of new york and the author of "secrecy and power, the life of j. edgar hoover." this was detonated with one of the m

>> i think on the opium side we, the united states, always took second place. we sub credited that out to the united kingdom. we had to lead the efforts in the beginning. it was never the first priorities of the united states. the biggest area of our failure was helping to develop rule of law and governance. afghanistan during the period of the war against the soviets and the civil war produced a class of warlords and group of people who were so horrible to the population they often welcomed the taliban in their place. when we went in, we adopted some of toes people. we kept some of those warlords around, we used them because it was cheaper, and it was a big mistake. a lot of those people are here. when the taliban come in and say we're going to be tough on people, but we're not going to be as bad as those other people that the united states supported, sometimes they get purchase with the local people. throughout our time in afghanistan, we spent way too much time focused on military issues and not enough time focused on political governance and rule of law issu

and this time right here in the united states. t person to come down with the ebola symptoms right here inside the united states. as you probably know, he got sick in dallas, texas, just days after arriving on connecting flights from liberia in west africa. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining me live now from dallas. i'm also joined live in new york by cnn's legal analyst paul callan and on the telephone is dr. ian lipkiom

it is certainly the case that once the united states withdrew, the situation deteriorated here tothe ited states sought establish a forces agreement with the iraqi government. they were unable to do so. the with officials -- the u.s. was a bush appointee. they tried very hard to get a force agreement. the prime minister said no. some would say the united states need to bring more pressure there to get the status of forces agreement. i don't think this was a lack of trying. you mentioned a libya, which is a poor gotten country in the debate these days. they've deteriorated into civil war. breakup as iraq seems to be on the verge of breaking up. this was an operation that was not led by the united states. it was led by our nato allies. it had more to do with nato alliance politics and the british and french saying in order to maintain the alliance, the united states needed to step up. of a was this question humanitarian issue, but it had more to do with that and reliance relations. i think there was never a tension on the part of the united states to engage in libya in the same kind of

latin america is uniquely relevant to the united states. this comes from a variety of , security proximity and of course the evolving demographic makeup. in terms of prosperity, the numbers speak for themselves. the u.s. took in about $180 billion from latin america and $160 billion in exports. natural resources element and energy reform improves energy security as well. thanks to nafta, 40% of goods mexico" "made in have items made in the u.s. production chains are deep we integrated as well. the u.s.-mexico border is 2000 miles long. vying to venezuela takes about 3.5 hours. cuba is 90 miles from florida. that should give you an idea of how truly close we are. because of the close list violence and drug trafficking reverberate. in flying that maintaining security on the border is a shared responsibility. as a result, most u.s. foreign-policy in the region is channeled into corporate security frameworks. cooperative security arrangements, which is a cooperative security arrangement with mexico. these issues of drug trafficking and violence

the united states is how organizing. >> but the president, that's why i feel it's important for the united states to take that role, not just as the assistant secretary, but from the very top. this administration has designated vice president biden to be the point person on the major issues which is a good step and he is in a lot more contact. and that is important, but really as much as the south americans need to take responsibility, we need to elevate our average so that we are both investing in promoting small business and growth and the economic prosperity that helps both sides and preventing creating a vacuum that allows foreign threats. >> i think dan was championing the other day. i think this issue of what karl was saying, interesting. this is not a one-off. a lot more of this. a lot more sophisticated. i think about the first bush administration, bush 41. argentina sent a ship, the first gulf war. there are examples or in the past brazil contributed in world war ii to the allied cause. so i think. >> the first colombian death and korea. >> yes. >> the question from the gentleman

of the united states in treaty defense. tion is usually sent to defend the united states performance on treaty. -- on treaties. beingruary, the u.s. was evaluated by the u.n. human rights committee on its covenant on political and civil rights. the panel asked me to attend. the delegation asked me to attend. you can imagine what this is like. there is a panel of experts from around the world that are critically questioning the united states delegation, and there is a delegation of american officials that have to take a beating, in some respects. and they asked questions about guantanamo,nalty, homelessness, and all sorts of other issues. one of the committee members started pressing me on what if the united states just apologized to the tribes and be done with it? that was sort of the attitude, and i said you know, we will never be done with it. as long as the united states occupies north america, we will always have obligations to the indian tribes. [applause] general of the united states department of defense, when i said

thomas duncan first entered the united states from belgium through dulles airport. new procedures that are about to go in effect this and four other airports in the united states. >> reporter: dulles is one of them. we also know that atlanta, newark, jfk and chicago. those are the five airports where they're really going to be ramping up these measures. you will see customs and border patrol officers with something that looks similar to this thermometer that i'm holding here. this is a laser thermometer. you do not need to touch the individual. just hold it up and it gives you a reading of what their temperature is. remember, they're only focusing on people coming from three distinct countries. liberia, sierra leone, as well as guinea. if you come from those three countries, a border patrol officer will likely take your temperature with something looking like this. this is not fullproof. many expects say this sounds great, it's wonderful that the government is stepping up efforts, but say this is not 100%. if you have a low grade fever, you may be able to take anythi

the united states has made the greatest commitment to stopping the outbreak. tbreak is the investment made by the president of the united states of department of defense resources to add logistical expertise to west africa and speed the flow of equipment and personnel to the region. so much of what we see in west africa is a logistical challenge. we know how to stop an ebola but it requires the mobilization of health-care workers in the equipment they need to do their jobs safely. the department of defense, while not being responsible for treating ebola patients directly can be of significant assistance to health care workers already on the ground, moving around the region, having facilities where they can work, and having access to or they need to do their jobs safely and successfully. also important here, it is important to us to understand contribution and sacrifice made by health care workers who volunteer their time to travel to sf to work in very difficult conditions to stop the ebola outbreak. of the kindflection of generosity that is worthy of our prais

for both the united states and the nations of africa. as faith mangopae told other young african leaders and president obama just this past week and i quote -- africa is no longer a sleeping giant but is awake and open for business. with the leadership in this room, we will keep the u.s./africa economic partnership open for more growth and success. we will keep the united states and africa open for business, your business. thank you very much. enjoy the day. [ applause ]. >>> on the next washington journal, mike duncan of the american coalition for clean coal energy discussing why coal and the obama's administration action plan have become high profile issues in campaign 2014. after that, karen white of the national education association. she looks at why the nea plans to spend $40 million on the mid-term elections. plus your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. washington journal on c-span live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >>> tuesday morning the progressive policy institute holds a discussion on cyber security and the curr

the united states warns this could escalate tensions. >> there is a close relationship with the united states and israel. that close relationship does not mean we paper over our differences. the fact is the united states has repeatedly made clear our view that settlement activity is illegitimate and only serves to complicate efforts to achieve a two-state solution in the region. >> troops serving in iraq will be checked for chemical expose us. the pentagon will offer long-term monitoring to those who were exposed to chemicals. they were exposed to the arsenal built by saddam hussein as they were looking for weapons of mass destruction. >>> the fed ended the stimulus. what now? stocks closed down a bit yesterday. fed ending a six-year bond buying stimulus program, but keeping interest rates low. many people saying the training wheels are not necessarily off the american economy yet. the fed's decision marks how far we have come. the bond buying program started in november of 2008 to prop up the flailing economy. the challenge now, interest rates. inve investors were prepared for the end

it has evolved to the point where there was bafflement they were not grateful to the united states for all the freedom we brought them. this to me really underscores how completely muslims are excluded from anything we think about or talk about in the united states. themve debates about without their participation, we have discussions about what they are thinking without actually hearing what they are thinking. we have constant reports about who we are killing and how many people we are killing without ever stopping and thinking about who those people are or whether they have done anything that warranted that violence. so much so it was recently revealed a couple months ago by the new york times the obama administration has adopted a new definition of militants, which says that any military aged male and a strike zone, meaning any male who dies above the age of 16 or below the age of 55, is automatically deemed a militant without knowing anything else about them. this is how we have come to think about muslims, to the extent we think about them all, they die at the hands of our violenc

but the idea of letting every member of the united states senate make their case that you have what we call regular order. what that means is that the a senators -- let me use me as an example. i came to the united states senate with a desire to have some accomplishments. one of the things i thought that made sense in this divided senate is in every significant piece of legislation i think that i've introduced i've gone out and found democrats to support, to cosponsor my bill to work with me to see if we could advance the cause. even that doesn't work in the united states senate. you do what you think o. people say let's have a bipartisan effort and we'll get something done. not in this senate because the way that senator reid has led the senate has prohibited that. so as a beginning point i would say that every united states senator has the opportunity to present their case, votes occur and we determine what the senate's will is on behalf of the american people. so process matters. it sounds like something inside the beltway. but when people tell me they're fed up with washington, d.c

the product invasionted states' in iraq. he says the chaos, because of the syrian crisis. well, precisely. what was the unitedstates position or strategy during the syrian crisis? it is not true -- there were so many critics and observers pointing out that not doing anything doesn't mean military intervention with the situation in syria was going to produce all of this chaos and mass of violence. it is not like we did not know the dangers involved. it is amazing that after everything that has happened in this country, here we go again. it is the same scenario, in a way. failure, weigence underestimated, we did not know. it is quite sad, actually, and tragic. >> what do you think the main failures have been? >> they never really had a strategy. ok, i'm not one for military intervention necessarily or bombing, but there was never really a strategy. frankly, whether it is syria or iraq, the united states allies are all responsible for fueling this, turkey, you know, along these foreign fighters, terrorist, to go into syria and saudi arabia for funding these groups and saudi arabia for shipping so many of its you

and immigration is good for the united states. we are a nation of immigrants. that doesn't include the number of illegal immigrants who come into the united states every year. illegal immigration is estimated between an additional one million to two million per year. that is an enormous amount of people. we have had great waves of immigration into the united states, but then we also hit the pause button so that wee had time to assimilate could we may -- assimilate. could we may get time now. calvin coolidge did that in the 1920's. he hit the pause button and we haved a period of time where we dealt with assimilation. what is very different now from previous waves is that today we have open borders combined with the welfare state. we didn't have that prior to 1965. that has changed our equation. so you can't talk about immigration without talking about america's current welfare state, because those are two issues that come together. >> the question down here -- a question down here. >> yes, talk radio news. what i wanted to ask is i know a minute ago you were tal

so the united states has international treaties. the state department usually sends a delegation is usually sent to defend the united states performance on treaty. -- on treaties. these are usually multilateral many's -- that many countries are signatories to. in february, the u.s. was being evaluated by the u.n. human rights committee on its covenant on political and civil rights. the panel asked me to attend. the delegation asked me to attend. i attended and you can imagine what this is like. there is a panel of experts from around the world that are critically questioning the united states delegation, and there is a delegation of american officials that have to take a beating, in some respects. and they asked questions about the death penalty, guantanamo, homelessness, and all sorts of other issues. there is a wide range of federal government officials there. one of the committee members started pressing me on what if the united states just apologized to the tribes and be done with it? that was sort of the attitude, and i said you

a very direct threat to the united states. wolf? >> barbara, thank you very much. on this new terror threat. joining us, retired general mark hurtling, and former cia operative phil mudd. general, the president of the united states called the yemeni president today, expressing his continued support. what is your analysis? >> i think it's a continual overwatch of the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. all across the horn of africa, there are different organizations like this continuing to conduct uprisings. the threats from the entire area continuing to be monitored. phil would have more view on that. >> phil, what do you think? do these al qaeda and their affiliates have free reign right now in yemen and maybe libya, as well? >> not yet. but let me give you a simple calculous. when local insurgents, like what we see in yemen, in libya, when >>> they send to spend less time on focusing staging attacks on new york and washington. what we have had is a yemen president who is good about working with us against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula but he's diverted the focu

they'll travel from brussels, and then into the united states. can stop the epidemic from spreading in africa or the united states if we isolate the patient and contact -- and monitor the contacts of that patient. if we stop it there, we can stop it here. are we moving fast enough? do we have the resources? are we coordinating responses with other countries and international organizations. but here, people are scared. we should not make them more frightened. in perspective, we've had three cases in the country, thomas duncan entering the country who flew through brussels to get here. nina pham and amber vinson. we have to be concerned, act urgently, but need not panic. we have to learn what we need to do, what mistakes we have made and not repeat them. we have to find out what happened in texas health presbyterian hospital, how cdc, state and local health officials of hospitals can improve procedures moving forward. we should also use this as a wakeup call to ensure the adequacy of our own public health and preparedness safety net. we have to be

they don't have as much control outside of the united states when you board the plane. that is a problems. but we do the best we can to try to track people and if we can identify them when they enter the united states there are very clear protocols for contact tracing between the cdc and the state health department. the problem is that as i think you said earlier i don't know it really isn't that easy to find out this person has an ebola or if this person has sars. you can semen forking isn't quite reliable, and by looking at the person you can't always tell. so we have a long way to go. we're still actually somewhat primitive in being able to identify who might be infected with the disease when it comes to an u.s. airport. >> in the case where you have someone who has been rebreathing circulated air wh of someone who has been coughing . can we follow someone who has been scattered from the o'hare field, where they go? >> in the case of tuberculosis the people of most risk are those who sit within six rose of the victim. those who sit within six rose are followed up much

the 13 original states. they took the wampum ideology, manifested it in this belt to represent the relationship between us and the united states. a mohawk speaker talked about this belt representing a circle of shells because it was meant to be wrapped in a circle with the five nations on the inside to be protected by our allies. we did not relinquish our sovereign authority. but we said we will stop the internal fight if you will protect our interests. this was given by george washington. it is very important. it, we havenk about this treaty document held by george washington. his words and aspirations were put into that and given to us as part of our living memory. the tree manifested -- treaty manifested in many ways. we see the chief holding the seneca version. there were three written versions, parchment documents that have survived. the other cheek is looking at the bundle of cloth. it makes you wonder why. what is up with that? one of the articles of the treaty is we were to be given $5,000 worth of edible animal husbandry goods. i could not understand that. a kinky thing? it turns out the implements of farming,

in germany, they've decided to target the united states. keep the united states out of the war is to bring terror to our shores. they decide that they need to stop the united states from sending arms and material to the allies who are fighting against germany. so they begin to target the united states. it's a time when the united states realizes that this is a nation full of targets. the cia has looked back on this period and they point to -- this homeland and the man who is made in charge of this defense of the homeland, captain tom tony and i'll speak about him, really is the first head of homeland security. he and his little 12-man squad are really the precursers of a homeland security network which now has 240,0p÷ people and an annual budget of $98.8 billion. it's also a time where we learn to live with fear. now, to understand where this story begins, i think we have to go back to two months before the war, before the war has broken out in europe. and we have to go to germany, berlin where walter nick lie, a major in the german army i

the fbi reports in 1991 there were an estimated 250,000 gang members in the united states. the fbi estimates there are now 1.4 million gang members in the united states and as many as 33,000 different gangs. the fed say 70,000 of those gang members live in los angeles. i have seen other estimates up to 120,000 and i tend to believe those more. that arguably makes los angeles the gang capital of the united states and those l a game this that migrated across most of the country and into mexico and central america. the mexican mafia was founded in 1957. it started as a prison gained in california and its influence has spread exponentially in the last 20 years. joe morgan, the godfather of the mexican mafia, a man known as a peg leg had a relationship with a mexican heroin kingpin in the 1970s but he was the only one, the organization as a whole was not that organized as it is today. in the early 19s a new generation of mexican mafia members, known as the pepsi generation expanded their influence in california and moved south of the border. in deer >> host:s there were an estima

>>> welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. e united states is certainly the forefront in the effort to try to stop the spread of even ebola in west africa. let's talk about -- you just came back from liberia, seierra leone and new guinea and senegal. what happened? >> the way we protect ourselves is to stop ebola at its source and the united states is leading an international coalition to really tackle this crisis by helping to build ebola treatment units, build out community care units throughout west africa and support the bee haf yor changes the whole time i was there we were not shaking hands, we were bumping elbows. >> raj, we're showing pictures of you there and you can see those pictures. i assume when your family, your friends, colleagues heard you were going there, they got pretty nervous? >> people do get nervous but the guidance is quite clear. i was not in contact with ebola patients and took all the necessary precautions and so i'm -- and my temperature is just fine. so the important thing is that the american resp

, the deal with the safety safety we the security and he's commander in cheeft united states of america. he's our president and i know republicans and democrats, he's the president of the united states and you can't have a secret service director who is holding back that type of information and then telling congress that she tells him 100% of the time. that was deception and when it got to that point where it was clear to me that she was deceiving people, that's when i -- yesterday came to the conclusion that she had to resign and i'm glad the white house did, as well. >> she spent, what? three hours answering questions before your committee yesterday. how much did that play. how much of a role did that play in her resignation and the three hours she spent there yesterday and by all accounts she didn't do a very good job. >> look, i wanted to hear from her that when we talk about an intruder in the white house, when you talk about somebody getting close to the president, i wanted her to be fired up and say they're never, ever going to get to the president and they're never going

states. bringing the total to more than 30 states and the district of columbia. >> the chances of an ebola outbreak here in the unitedlow. we've been taking necessary precautions including working with countries in west africa to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn't get on a plane for the united states. >> as we all know now that didn't quite work out. that was president obama speaking for the cdc headquarters a few weeks back before the u.s. received its first case of ebola. now, thomas kun duncan is fighting for his life and receiving treatment from a new experimental drug that supplies for zmap have run out. earlier this afternoon president obama announced that the u.s. is preparing additional measures to screen passengers in the u.s. casey has that story. >> whether thomas duncan frankly lives or dies could all be hinging on this experimental drug he is now receiving here at texas health presbyterian hospital in dallas. a drug by the way that has never been tested in humans or in animals for its effectiveness against the ebola virus. it has been tested in humans for other diseases

and several hundred from the united states. n that we can track them when they come back to the united states is questionable since it takes 24 agents to track one person for a 24 hour. and our policy of radical islam is screwed up. praises a raddac shake and he issued a fata for killing american soldiers and the american president sending's welcome message in the oklahoma mosque who had the islamist who beheaded. and had praising 9/11 and bin laden. and i think our own policies including that the fact that the attorney general prohibited the fbi from using religious criteria. and right now, we have a policy that doesn't exist. >> you know, you may not know but tom fls nodding his head. tom, one of the things that stove is referencing, by our not identifying certain things as terrorism and calling things work place violence. you know, the united states and the department of justice is tying the hands of investigators. what is the perception of britain and the united states? ? we are facing the same disaster. >> the british gover

goods and services, exports from the united states to african markets support roughly 250,000 jobs here at home. as africa's middle class continues to expand, we hope to see our export numbers grow, too. and through select usa, the administration is actively encouraging african companies to increase their presence here in the united states. closer economic ties and rising demand create ample opportunities for businesses in the united states and africa to build new partnerships, reach new markets and support new jobs in the years to come. with each passing day, our commercial connections are deepening. our business bonds are increasing and our trade partnership is maturing. yet we have only just begun to scratch the surface. president obama and the department of commerce are ready to write the first pages of the new chapter of our relationship by taking our alliance to the next level. to advance the president's vision for africa, we are expanding our foreign commercial service presence. these are our economic diplomats on the ground in country that help american businesses navigate each

he is warning the united states islam's number one target is the united states. you will hear from prime minister netanyahu in just minutes. but, first, news that isis that s. changing its tactic and now the question are the limits of u.s. air strikes becoming abundantly clear. pentagon press secretary admiral. >> good to be with you, greta, thank you. >> nice to have you. tell me, is isis are they changing their tactics? >> yes, they are. as a matter of fact. we have seen this actually for the last several weeks as we have been striking them inside iraq. frankly we expected that. that as we continue to put pressure on them they would have to react to try to survive and to continue and adapt their operations. what i said last week is if they are not operating as freely as they were before and they aren't. so they are free to. are seeing them change their posture. seeing them change their communications. seeing them disperse more. to hide more. to be better concealment. but, again, those aren't necessarily harder for them to operate. >> disperse sal means they are

, the united nations, domestic politics, government politics, and so on. >> the role of the media -- can you talk about that, particularly in the united you think that the opinion in the united statespublic opinion -- is shifting on this issue? >> the role of the media is somewhat shifting from uniform support from virtually everything israel does, and, of course, silence about the u.s. role -- and that is not just in the case of israel, but in innumerable other cases as well. it is slowly shifting, but nevertheless, say operation protective edge, one can read in news reporting in "the new york times," a major journal, the assault onf hamas' israel during protective age -- protective edge. israel --sault on that is not exactly what happened, but that is what people are reading. thate over and over read israel is under attack has the right to self-defense. everyone agrees to that. actually, i agree to that, but that is not the question. the question is do you have a right of self-defense by force, by violence, and the answer is no for anyone, whether it is an individual or state, unless you have exhausted peaceful means. if you will not even permit peaceful means, which is the case

that's what is hitting us here in the united states. only had a few people, yet we're starting to hear about the poll that said that people are not going to travel internationally, the calls from congress on a travel ban or visa ban for people coming in from that part of the world, what is the impact likely to be in the united states if we get more ebola cases? >> like you say the economic impact is completely disproportional to the number of cases. so if the health system is able to take care of the cases that are currently in play, and show it is possible to contain these, and i'm optimistic that that is the case, i expect we'll see a pretty quick reversion to regular behavior at least in the u.s. economy. if that's not the case, i would expect the same fear factor to have the same disproportion at it impact here in the u.s. >> dave, thank you for your time. >>> i want to take you to some picture we're bridging in from dallas right now. this is what melissa chen was talking about. we have the first nurse that was infected. nina has bee

contracted ebola in the united states. and indeed, we have to learn inm the current situation texas and use any information we can gather to better help and protectitals our health care workers on the front line. we are here today because we to these questions. this past august, the inspector general of the department of homeland security anti-viralport on countermeasures. they found that the department of security did not adequately a needs assessment prior to purchasing supplies and then did not effectively manage its stockpile of personal protective equipment and anti-viral medical countermeasures. this just illustrates how unprepared we are. we have to get this right. yield theke to balance of my time to ms. blackburn from tennessee. thank you, dr. burgess. yes, indeed, welcome to all of witnesses. everyone has mentioned we're here to work with you to protect americans. that includes the caregivers. by that, i mean the men and frontworking on the lines, the screaming eagles of from fort campbell. thank you. >> yields ba

it's present everywhere from the ukraine to east asia to even here in the united states. d we have to take it on together. that's why president obama helped launch the open government partnership where eight african nations, the united states and 55 other nations act together on a common commitment to a more open transparent and accountable institutions. and that's why america is doing its part to ensure our legal and financial systems cannot be exploited to launder the proceeds of corruption and theft from africa. this includes new proposals from president obama to prevent the use of unanimous u.s. registered shell companies. that's why we've joined 23 african countries in the extractive industries transparency initiative. that's a mouthful, but there's a lot there. because africa's natural wealth should not be stolen and repetriuated under the cover of darkness. it should enrich africa's people under the rule of law. i'm known as the mayor will tell you in the white house as the white house optimist. i feel very good about that because when they say that it implies i'm t

if the united states were to follow that what would happen to the treatments here in the united states as well as overseas? >> in the long run, you would see less access to new innovative drugs. it'd be that simple. >> if in fact, we eliminated the innovation, in many cases that innovation, which takes somebody out of a hospital setting and puts them in an outpatient facility, they're treated, they no longer have the risk of infection, because of in-patient, they no longer have the days in the hospital, that's not only been beneficial to the cost in health care, it's actually beneficial to the quality of the outcome? >> well, sure. >> frank liktenberg's looked at this extensively and he's estimated that for about every dollar we put into pharmaceuticals you save well over $3 in hospital costs by avoiding hospitalizations. the price controls can have one of two impacts. if you have price control that's lower than the market price you'll see a shortage. if it's above the market price, you'll see a -- sorry, i'm losing my train of thought here. you'll see a surplus. and that's kind of, yo

the talk. we've got to defend freedom, united states of america. we can talk to all the experts we've want but we've got to get something done about this. >> let's talk to congress. we're starting with you, cheri bustos. congress is to face more fiscal cliffs. do you support an increase in the debt limit and should sequestration cuts be permanent? >> my very first act in congress, very first bill i introduced, it attacked government waste and abuse. and not in a small way. it identified $200 billion in wasteful government spending. i think that's the place we need to start, before we do anything. my opponent voted not once but twice to end the medicare guarantee. so that's looking at balancing the budget on the box of seniors, in -- on the backs of seniors, in my opinion, where it would cost seniors $6,000 in out-of-pocket expenses. my opponent voted for sequestration. here's why. that impacted this economy, right here in this area, by $100 million. we had workers who had to take paychecks home that were less than they're used to taking home, who th

it was possible the united states and soviet union, they could stop the war in only speaking by phone. in deciding how to stop. today who is listening. israel is listening to united states. at least russia. somebody. nobody is listening to nobody. that is why it is necessary to create totally new system where everybody will respect the order and will work together. it's not easy, i understand. maybe you will think that i am something in the other world. not in this world. i don't see any other possibility for otherwise to avoid the more difficult period. if we don't start this work. >> question from the head of the institute. there is an opinion than oftentimes the reason why we can't get started on this approach to a new systeming with to a new type of dialogue, to putting our trust in a new set of rules, is fear, is deep, latent insecurity. my question is, when it comes to the countries, particularly on russia's periphery, and we know from the latest crisis in ukraine but others, those probl biggest problems with the west. why do you think there is so much fear of russia, and is tha

but without the united states, the war wouldn't have ended and we certainly turned the tide. >> the united states was involved in the war in various ways, from the beginning. whether it's economic, providing arms for the allies, whether it's volunteers go to europe, to the red cross, you have americans following what's happening in the war and we mentioned that immigrant communities that have a clear connection to it is in terms of their relatives and family members, so when the united states got involved, formally in the war, i think in the spring of 1917, it wasn't as if this was just suddenly thrust upon the american people. these were questions, issues that americans have been confronting and debating for quite some time. burr trying to mobilize american population was a different story. and that's, i think where woodrow wilson becomes very important in terms of how he frames the war as a war to make the world a safer democracy, kind of tapping into the democratic idealism of the united states and was quite effective in terms of mobilizing a country that was wholly unprepared for war,

official concerns in the united states and canada. we have the details. >>> the cdc laying out new extensive ebola testing standards for passengers arriving in the united states. what hundreds, maybe thousands of passengers will now have to do not to mention the state officials who will be following them. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. christine romans is on assignment today. it is thursday, october 23rd. 5:00 a.m. in the east. welcome to you here in the united states and around the world. there is breaking news overnight on the shootings wednesday by a man that canada's prime minister is calling a terrorist. a gunman killed a soldier at the national war memorial in ottawa and injured others and ran into the building on parliament hill with hundreds of leaders in that building. he was shot and killed by security officers there. we now know more about the suspect. apparently a man who converted to islam. a man with a criminal past. a man whose passport had been frozen recently by authorities over fear of dubiou

i was talking about the hype in the united states. of all the tens of thousands of people who travel from west africa to the united states there is only one ebola case that has gotten through. >> well, the unfortunate passing of mr. duncan and his case i will plus straits some of the vulnerabilities of our public defense symptoms. the problems asymptomatic carriers can incubate the virus for up to three weeks. if an asymptomatic carrier was to board a plane to the united states or to europe, they could by pass the temperature screening, the questionnaires, and land in the states and become symptomatic, and become a viral threat to others. >> again, that's only happened once in the united states. just once. >> there is a concern that with the numbers of people coming down with ebola in west africa that we might be seeing more people reaching the united states. this could be the wave of ebola refugee who seek to flee conditions in their own countries and come to a place like the united states. >> that's an interesting point. tell us abou

had snake belts and fairly large planes that they might advance toward the united states. there was talk about altering the wouboundaries of the united iffulties might there skrechd. be? and it failed despite the fact they ush erd a. it was still out and told that they had lost something and she had won. . >> this is why many of the historians have divided that the war of 1812. the draw to me in part is that the two fairly evenly matched forces failed to achieve success in a contest. but the united states and great britain couldn't even be matched. the war then ended not so much as a draw but as a stalemate that was born with the inability of confidence to find ways to continue conflict. having come to that point toward the end of 1814, both eventually settled for peace that restored the status quo and that peace was signed in 1814. we might even qualify that verdict a little further. we might say we won, but there were no losers in the war. all historians agree that the real losers in the war of 1812 were the indian peoples, a good many whom fought on the side of the brit