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Sent us and email, journal cspan. Org. An article from a couple days ago. Of americans said they were following the 2014 midterm elections very closely. Than half the number that said they were tracking the ebola virus, 36 , or u. S. Irstrikes against isis less than the 21 of the people paying attention to the secret service. Most people do not care about midterm elections. Like, at all. The cillizza in washington post. Hard for any story to be the of fracturedrld media consumption. They will be lots of Media Coverage in the final months. Is likely to increase. For most people, the midterms are a nonevent. Heres the hill. An underfunded independent has tern decelerate upside down turned the senate rate upside down. He told the hill that if elected, hed be a friend of obama in the senate. Surging in the race. Thats a little bit from the south Dakota Senate race. We want your point of view on election 2014. Ed in frederick, maryland. Are you paying attention . Caller im looking at the economy. I have not gotten a raise in five years. I dont think the economy is going very well. Im looking at who is going to state the facts. I hear a lot of people telling me how great the economy is. I have not experienced that. My income is entirely flat and my expenses have gone up ridiculously over the last five years. I am looking at foreign issues. It looks as though our current disorganizedy is and incompetent. Im hoping that somebody will make some sense out of what is going on. Got a governors race in maryland. Larry hogan and anthony brown. Who are you supporting and why . Guest larry hogan. We need a change in maryland. The highest tax state in maryland, we even have a tax on the rain. No realism about what is good for the economy. Businesses are leaving in droves. John is a, democrat. Are you paying attention . Yes. caller talking about the scott brown race. He is gaining points against jeanne shaheen. He lost against, i forget her name, in massachusetts. He is running in new hampshire. Vote democratic this time. Host are you a swing voter. Caller yes. Ill go democrat this time. Last time i went with the republicans, our jobless rate was increasing. A lot of companies leaving new hampshire. Maggie hassan has been governor, i want to maintain that. Evangeline in maryland. Caller good morning. Host what are your thoughts . Caller im definitely paying attention. Im paying attention to local politics. We have a governors race going on right now. Issuesing attention to with Police Violence on the streets. The newing attention to casino that opened and the money that is supposed to go to our schools. Attention to national politics. I believe the democrats will hold the senate but i am paying attention. Im concerned about the ebola epidemic. And our response and a worldwide response. Host thank you. Grimes votell, did for obama . Refusedundergan grimes to say whether she voted for president obama during a thursday interview. Grimes said she was a delegate for Hillary Clinton ne glected to say she was a delegate for obama in 2012. I know the members of the theorial board respect sanctity of the voting box. From odistance herself bama. James in georgia. Big governors and big senate race. Are you paying attention . Caller yes. Want Michelle Nunn another candidate. Host you think republicans in georgia are negative towards africanamericans . Why . Caller ive heard a lot of stuff. Host are you an activist, or do you vote . Caller i just vote. Host what do you do . Caller i work. Host thank you for calling. Dennis in south dakota. Who are you supporting for senate . Im a registered republican but im concerned about mike rounds. Especially with the ab5 program. Wereeral thing where they getting money to the chinese, apiece to 500,000 invest in this packing plant in south decoder. It was a pathway to citizenship. Has that been the focus of some of the Campaign Commercials . Caller yes. Host who is running that . The democrats or Larry Pressler . Caller both. Host who are you going to vote for . Caller this is where my dilemma comes in. I wonder about rounds. Evading the issue. Its wondering about his honesty and transparency. My concernressler, is who will he caucus with . Looks like hes going to favor the democrats and be a friend of obama. Even though im apprehensive ill probablynds, vote for him because i feel it is necessary that the republicans take the senate. Host mike rounds served as governor of south dakota. Caller yes. Host did you vote for him . Caller yes. Host what do you do . Caller im retired. Host from . Caller primarily Animal Health field. Animal nutrition. Primarily cattle. Host thank you for calling. George, republican and texas. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host how closely are you following election 2014. You got to turn down the tv. Listen to your phone and go ahead. We are going to put george on hold and move on to steve in haymarket. In haymarket, virginia, independent line. Have you voted both republican and democrat in the past . Caller yes. Right now, i am really mad at the republicans. Money they should have gone to make Ken Cuccinelli governor, they gave it to thad cochran. We have a better guy democrats, they brought that flu virus from honduras. Its in every school in america. Symptoms can go as far as polio. There are children dying from that. I dont know how the American People are going to be comfortable voting for a party that did that. George bush was engaged in. Frica, had ebola under control obama disengaged from africa. We were in iraq. Fixingwere doing is water and Sewage Treatment plants and responding to the iranian army. Hand, the 100r billion stimulus package, all that went to democrat donors. An interesting little scenario here. Host back to george in texas, republican line. We will put the numbers up if you want to participate. Election 2014. George, we are listening. Go ahead and tell us about your views on election 2014. Caller my views on election 2014 it is a shame that you dont have to have voters id to vote. I can go and tell them who i am, am. Wont know shwho i host you think you should have an id to vote . Caller sure. Had one. Ys i am 78 years old. I thought all the time. Time. Ote all the i vote straight republican. Host have you always been a republican . Caller ive always been a republican wherever i go. Thank you. Host george mentioned the voter id laws. Supreme court blocks wisconsins voter id law. In the new york times. Requiringficials from voters to provide identification. 3 more conservative members dissented. Was provisionally reinstated last month. The voter identification law issue is one that is going to play out in the next week five days. We will hear about that. Tammy in maryland, democrats line. Good morning. What are some of the issues important to you . I am paying attention. I think the issues that are important to me, there are issues on the local level in frederick county, maryland. On a larger stage, im concerned with Foreign Policy. A lot of the unrest in the world. Violence. Gain, Police Things that are going wrong. All the shootings and harassment of minorities. I dont know what is going on in this country. Inequality. It seems like this overall mantra against women and Birth Control and access to abortion. I dont know what century we are living in anymore. I am voting democrat and supporting anthony brown. I am supportive of the president. I am happy that the Unemployment Rate continues to go down. On. E got to keep on keeping keep going in the same direction. Thanks. Host bruce, mississippi, republican line. What are your thoughts . Caller i was calling because i wanted to Say Something about the candidate in kentucky who said she was asked a question and she would not answer. Ive been a republican since 1978, since high school. Im africanamerican, a lincoln republican. Anyone to doct anything for me. I can take care of myself. She would not answer the question. She should have spoken the truth palinid between sarah versus biden, i made the best choice for my country. That is what we all do. Im a veteran, i was in the air force. When it gets down to the we elect and who president , it does not matter who is in the white house. Once we are there, we support them. Even in an election, we are a people, ok . To make the best decisions we can. My cut debate what have been my choice. He was a little too religious. Mccain was my first choice, when he picked sarah, i couldnt do that. You had a pretty heated primary down there in mississippi. Did you support thad cochran . Or the gentleman backed by the tea party . Theer dont get me wrong, tea party has very good intentions. Very good. They are misdirected. They need guidance. Unfortunately, anger does not solve problems. Have to prevail. We are all in this thing together. If it sinks, the rich will survive. Middleclass folks are in trouble. I used to be a stockbroker for merrill lynch. Wendy. Com thing happened, i found another job. Thingn the dot com happened, i found another job. When obama was giving his paying for it out of my pocket with veterans money. I could not get a job because there was not available. Years old. I never stop trying. Thats what it means to be a republican. Do not need anybody my unemployment ran out and i started making different choices. Now, i drive a mus. I drive a bus. Nightmare. Egabus, a a guy got jumped on because the guy would not give him his luggage. Its not the appropriate setting. Ive had a lot feel unique or lonely being an africanamerican republican . Caller it used to make people very angry until i could support what i believe. Republican, i got into the party only because there was an expression i heard in high school. You keep your friends close by your enemies closer. And i came into the Republican Party. When i came in and i realized , it my enemy was my friend had to take the truth. From there, even if i stand alone. Thank you for calling. James is an independent in grover, missouri. Good morning, you are on the washington journal. Talking about Campaign Election 2014. Caller yes. I believe that anyone who wants to enter congress, no matter what level, to the president , even, the highest Police Officer should beion, they required to take a lie detector test. I dont want to know anything about their personal background. I want to know about how honest the individual is. Will he pursue honesty on behalf of the American Public . Cecil in cary, north carolina, democrat. What is your view . Really this thing here the election depends on whether people get through and to vote for who they want. The thing that is in the balance , their id. It was struck down by the court. I have an issue with the passports. Passports cost as much as 150. Host lets go back to the election. You have a big center right. Big senate race. Kay hagan or thom tillis . Hagan seems like she is the only sensible one in north carolina. Shes wired right. Host thanks. Thel in louisiana on independent line. Ive been paying andntion to Mary Landrieu delicacy. And bill casey. Man, its crazy. A lot of negative ads. Mary landrieu is putting holes in the ads. That stuff,nd all he voted against and is trying to backtrack. He is not telling the truth. Im really paying attention to that. Votingar, im definitely democrat. Mary landrieu has my full support and im going to have my family and friends backing her. I think she is doing the best that she can. Shes doing a lot. The thing that she did for the , the with the challenge military challenge for the youth was a great thing. She has done a lot of positive things. Newspaper,the hill john boehner and politics behind obama immigration delight. Delay. Accused obama of raw politics for delaying immigration. Next call is shea in wisconsin. Independent line. Caller hi, good morning. Getnt to let people know to out and vote. It is very important, especially in wisconsin. A big debate tonight. I want people to watch that and do not vote. Host which debate . The good editorial debate the governors debate. Caller i am going to vote for mary burke. I feel that scott walker is a minion to the koch brothers. With a lot the other republican governors. Chaosot understand the congress and the senate. I wish they could get out and get new people that are going to support the American People and not so much the corporations host it looks like scott walker lead. Sixpoint is the alaska poll. I had the wrong walker. How close is the race . Caller walker is up by 3 or four points. Its a pretty close race. Debate is happening tonight. That will be live on cspan, 8 00 p. M. Mary burke and scott walker. 8 00 p. M. Eastern time, 7 00 p. M. In wisconsin. Steve in trenton, michigan. Democrat. Caller good morning. Host election 2014. Caller ive already voted. Host who did you vote for . I voted a straight democrat ticket. Im a good democrat. Host why are you a good democrat . Why are you a democrat . Caller i believe in the democrat philosophy. They had a plan for what they are going to do in terms of their policy and their philosophy. I agree. Host did you want to Say Something else . Id, but ie voter think is not discussed is that it is not so much about voter id. Everyone should have a voter id. Sinister on the Republican Party, they try to restrict voting in various states. That is an outrage. I think all republicans should feel ashamed of themselves. Marietta, georgia, independent line. Caller how are you doing this morning. Host what you think about campaign 2014 . Caller i will have to lean towards the republicans. He is the worst president in history. Everything he touches employs thousands of people, what is wrong the country is going socialist. Bye. Congressional staffers favor senator rand paul for president , but are disappointed in republicans senator cruz and senator rubio, according to bestngtonian magazines and worst of congress list, published thursday. Staffers surveyed for the list rated mr. Paul the biggest star on castle best capitol hill, along with one of the best public speakers come along with mr. Rubio. Republicans, call 202 5853881 , democrats, call 202 5853880 , independents, call 202 5853882. Kip is in Virginia Beach how closely are you following the election. . Caller somewhat very iwatch cspan fairly often. I wanted to make a comment about that article you just read. I suppose we are to believe that they do nothing for political reasons . Host im just reading the article. You can ask that question, rhetorically, but no one will answer you. Caller but thats the question i have. Host what is your answer . Caller i think they do everything for political purposes. Just like they all do. I wouldnt give you two cents for either party. Host the senate race in virginia, where you . Caller i think warner may have more common sense, and interest in the actual peoples business as the post of their own as opposed to their own. Byt currently he is upped 10 points. Derek is in austin, texas. Democrats line. Caller good morning. Host we are listening. Caller it is 6 30 here in austin, texas. I have been listening to the comments about voting. I would like to say that this mess. Y is one big racist all i have heard is a bunch of old white men complaining about the structure. Save your retirement, go somewhere else. We are sick of it. Lets get together and make this country great. We are tired of this ignorant racism in the country. Calling the president and coptic, these are stupid come old white men. Host if someone doesnt like the president , is that a racial comment . Derek . Bill is up next in do we, oklahoma. Republican line. Caller good morning. I listen to all this stuff. It is aggravating at times. Most of it is nothing but a bunch of garbage. I am a republican. But i will vote democrat. Left thens have American People, in my opinion. There is only one place for it the only ones they support for the wealthy and the rich. I will vote democrat. They blame harry reid for this that has but anybody any common sense knows in the senate, it takes 60 votes to bring a bill up to even vote on it. And republicans continually vote down every bill. They wont even let it be voted on. But then they blame harry reid for it. Its not him. It is republicans. And republicans have voted against everything in the world that his even been brought up. Any type of build it would help the common people, republicans say no. But that is just my opinion. Host that is bill in oklahoma. That is glenn in tennessee. Democrat. Caller i agree with the last caller. I also feel that the Republican Party is a party of racism. Hello . Host we are listening. Caller the reason i say that is because its just like if someone robbed a bank, and im the driver, im with him. The Republican Party never says in their party. They can come out against everything that anybody stands for, the common people. They never come out and say this is wrong, but thats wrong. [indiscernible] where is gallatin, tennessee . Caller south americas. Host what do you do . Caller right now, im disabled. Host susan, casper, wyoming. Independents line. What is your take on election 2014 . Caller i have no hope. I think which you are hearing from the majority of callers is that the ordinary, common person has lost any kind of voice in this country. It is bought and sold by the wealthy. There is no hope. I dont know why we should even vote. Host what are the issues important to you . Caller the wage gap, health , police bertelli brutality. Massrceration incarceration of our people. Just the basic things that make life worth living. They dont seem to exist like they did back in the 50s or 60s. One wage earner cannot support eight children and still go on vacation. And have a pension and health care, and go to church on sunday. It is just too hard. It is just too difficult. To survive incult this world today, in this country. And it is a shame. Died,cestors fought and and struggled to come and build this marvelous place that we call home. And we are letting ago. It go. It is disappearing. In the washington post, anticipated, gops easy wins turn into nailbiters. The midterm elections have looked like the deck stacked in favor of republicans, but his Campaign Season heads into the final weeks, wildcards are on the table in states where the gop had been expecting easy victories. Come inst twist has south dakota, a conservative state with an open seat that has not been on the radar screen. All of a sudden, Larry Pressler is closing the polls with mike browns and rick weiland. In georgia, david for do has made some missteps that have opponent. Democratic there is also a libertarian in that race. Even the marquee contest is not settled down as many expected it to. The most recent poll in kentucky has the democratic Challenger Holding a twopoint lead over senator republican leader mitch mcconnell. A six point gain for grimes sent the previous poll was conducted in august. All forward publicans may well win, but at a minimum, they are unexpectedly precarious. Has the partys wedding in considering whether to divert more resources into states they thought they could take for granted. Thegop was facing possibility of libertarian spoilers, and a number of states. Senator kay hagan is leading llis. Tell us thom ti times, obamark sticks to his script for starstruck celebrities at hollywood fundraisers. Gwyneth paltrow struck it struggled to hold yourself back. He ran through the issues confronting the country, he praised the close the growth of the economy. That is a little bit from Michael Smiths article in the new york times. Scott in michigan. Democrat, thanks for holding on. Go ahead. I have been keeping up with the elections. I am more independent. I usually vote more democrat. But in michigan, i heard one gentleman mentioned Terri Lynn Land and gary peters. Some really nasty ads appear. Sometimes it is out there. It could be the outside money, it could be the campaign itself. But im voting for her. They had one ridiculous ad that said she is antiwomens rights, and she is a woman. Im going to vote for a democrat for governor, Governor Rick Snyder seems like a nice guy. He raise taxes on our pensions appear for certain retirees. Im paying 1300 more a year. Others are paying less or none. But we had a deficit up your really bad. All states had to balance their budgets each year, like the federal government. But that pension issue kind of bothers me. I wouldnt mind paying a little bit more, but that was way over what we should have been paying. Those of the issues there for me,. Up here. Host thank you. Bob is in philadelphia. Independent line. Caller good morning. I had to respond to bill from oklahoma. , his factshe said are totally wrong. This is a typical example of a low information voter. He says they are blocking harry reid, it is the republicans fault, not harry reid. Because harry doesnt have 60 votes. There arent 60 republicans in the senate. The host, you could probably correct some of these facts. You know how money senators there are, republican and democrat in the senate. Maybe make it euro location to correct some of these facts, as howdy people are in these houses how many people are in these houses. Harry reid doesnt bring things to the floor, because he doesnt want to embarrass his own party. Half the democrats dont vote for the bill either. Host the governors race, pennsylvania, who are you supporting . Vote form going to corbett, even though i am disappointed in him. He was supposed to privatize liquor stores, and he didnt do that. Tax, i gothe gas right across the river to new jersey, and im saving . 55 a gallon of gas just by going across the river. Commercial of tom corbett, he says we are going to charge these Oil Companies and extraction tax. We are going to make them pay for our schools. You think they are just going to sit on that tax . They are going to pass on to the consumers at the pump. We are still going to end up paying for it. Sound silly. Us thats just going to come down to us. Host this is larry, in fort worth. Caller hello. Am a 623s larry, i rural democrat. 63yearold democrat. My grandparents all voted republican. The whole neighborhood, all the black voters voted for what Eisenhower Dwight eisenhower. After the civil rights act, everybody went towards democrats. They all went towards democrats, excuse me, i am nervous. Host its ok. We are listening. Dont look at the tv. Caller i wont look at the tv. We all voted republican. After the civil rights act, we all became democrats. Because we try to vote our interests. The whites only back all went back to republicans. Bad forn, the south was democrats. They had to deal with the alabama governor. Reason thee Republican Party is so racist kkk membership has more than tripled since obama has been president. Find one kkknot member that is a democrat. Thats all he wanted to say. Host larry in fort worth. Senate math seems impossible to some democrats, four weeks away in the 2014 midterms. Some democratic operatives struggled to imagine a scenario where they remain in control of the senate. The current momentum seems all but overwhelming and against them. Wethe wall street journal, want show you Pat Robertson kansas. Roberts, in kansas. Sanders is in detroit. Election 2014. You paying attention . Caller yes im. Im paying attention because there are a lot of folks being misled. It doesnt matter if it is republican or democrat, we need someone in office to tell us the truth. The bottom line is, we have a lot of older men who still believe in all of these oldfashioned issues. We need younger blood in the house, in the state. We need someone to lead us into the century we are in. Half of these guys dont even know what the internet looks like. A lot of stuff is done through the internet come on the internet, and if they will get online and Pay Attention to some of the stuff, they would see with the voters really want in the states. Thank you. Host who are some of those younger people you would like to see in there . Caller i would just like to see some young blood. Somebody to get up and put some enthusiasm into their comments,ot this same old drawn out same old same old, lets fight about this. Host have you thought about running for office . Caller i wish i would have when i was younger. I think ive gotten too old myself. [laughter] thank you. Host thank you. It is 25 days to the election. Are plenty of opportunities to talk about the election. Of course, election night, the day after the election. We will be talking about it quite a bit. I want to point out this article as well. The parties by vote of the federal Election Committee are now allowed to raise new funds for the conventions they were 32,400 per person to the committees each year. That, for can give Convention Activities as well, on top of the donations they are giving to the party. I also want to point out the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded. Malala, the 15yearold pakistan girl who was beaten for going to school. She wrote a book about it. Also, to a gentleman from india. They won because of their struggle against the oppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to an education according to the Nobel Peace Prize committee. In politico, encase you are interested, it looks like Bristol Palin and her brother to dogot into a bit of a in alaska. It sounds like alcohol may have been involved. If you want to read that, you can read that in politico. Finally, an issue a lot of people are concerned about president obama came out on the side of Net Neutrality while out in california. That is also in politico this morning. Talking abouto be ebola, we will be talking about the current military crisis with i. S. I. S. , as well as Domestic Violence. Those are worth three upcoming topics this morning on washington journal. We started off with campaign 2014. We spent a lot of time getting into debates around the country, and bringing them to national television. Over 100 debates this Campaign Season. Gubernatorial, senate, and house. Here is a house debate that happened last night. It is a rematch between cheri bustos and her republican challenger, former congress one bobby schilling. Heres a little bit of their debate. [video clip] congress has to face more fiscal cliffs. Do you support an increase in the debt limit and should seek was ration be permanent sequestration be permanent . My very first bill attacked government waste and abuse. It identified 200 billion in wasted government spending. I think that is the place when you start before we do anything. My opponent voted not once twice to end the medicare guarantee. That is looking at balancing the budget on the backs of seniors, in my opinion. It would cost seniors each 6,000 in outofpocket expenses. That is not the way we need to attack the budget problem we have. Is a veryion dangerous place to go. My opponent voted for that. Here is why. That impacted this economy, in this area, by 100 million. We had workers who had to take paychecks home that were less than they were used to taking home. Their take on pay was worse. ,hey had to take time off forced time off. And that is the vote he cast. Mr. Schilling . I find this interesting. The congresswoman said she was going to end the gridlock, and the dysfunction, the very first opportunity she got, she voted no on all six budgets. When you go to congress, you have to be able to compromise. Our Congress Never had a government shutdown. When i made promises to the people of the district, i kept every single one of them. The incumbent commerce woman had promised to forgo her pay during the government shutdown. We did some research and found out that she didnt do that. The key thing what we have to do at all costs is to try to avoid sequestration. There is so much waste out there that we could go and capture, and we dont need to go in and start cutting our military so far back to where we cant defend our freedom of the United States of america. Washington journal continues. Host joining us now is lawrence gostin, director of georgetown universitys Oneill Institute for national and Global Health law. What do you do a georgetown . I run the institute, which looks at national and Global Health law at the law school. Im a professor, and the director of the anyway joe center who center. Host what is the World Health Organization . Guest it hasnt lived up to its mission, to be the leading Global Health coordinator for Global Health around the world. It was the first agency that was put forward from the United Nations in 1948. It had wonderful plans. It has failed badly. W. H. O. Was meant to lead for ebola, this is its failure moment. Its funding has been chopped. It has 180 million from the u. S. Every year. With that kind of money, what can it do with regard to ebola, and was at currently doing . Guest it cant do very much. It has a budget about one third of the cdcs budget. And it has a global mandate. A couple of years ago, it had a big budget deficit, and it cut back. Most of the epidemic response staff. It is low on staff. Has gone from its days of being a Global Health leader to really a technical organization. I believe that it has to change, because we need the w. H. O. To lead and succeed. But it is incapable of doing it. , then Security Council United States military, have really stepped into a gap of leadership. I think that is sad. I want to make sure that the caller w. H. O. Gets much stronge. Host has the military needed to step in . Guest absolutely. I am proud of my country. We have stepped up, much too little, much too late. But when nobody else would. We are now calling for other nations to really send in their health personnel, military personnel. It has gone beyond Public Health. Doctors without borders is one of the bravest organizations. They have been working in africa and other places in the world. In 20 years, they have always been against the military. This isthey said, hopeless, we really need to get that kind of logistical command , engineering, into our country. The president has obliged. I am pleased to see that. Host it is october 10. The u. N. Is holding a meeting today. There is a hearing down in dallas, which we are covering live. The Homeland Security department is meeting at the Dallas Airport to talk about responses to ebola. You have the military going over. Who is taking the lead on this . Is it coordinated, do think it needs to be more coordinated . Guest this question of who is in charge has been a huge problem. The fact is, nobody is in charge. There are hundred of ngos, governments, it aint workers aid workers. The government itself is too fragile in some cases, they dont have the stewardship to really be in charge. The United States cant be in charge. They are in liberia, you control their own military. The chineseontrol military, cuban doctors, anything else. And the w. H. O. Doesnt want to be in charge. The truth is, we just dont have incident control, where you have a just ask and clarity logistics and clarity. It is fragmented on the ground. Host we are talking about the u. S. And Global Response to the ebola crisis. Republicans, call 202 5853881 , democrats, call 202 5853880 , independents, call 202 5853882. Lawrence gostin is our guest, he is with georgetown university, with a background in law and Public Health. Combining those two backgrounds, legally, what can the u. S. Do . What do you think the u. S. Should do to prevent ebola from coming more into our borders . Guest the first thing we should do is deal with it where the tragedy is occurring, at its source. If you can lower the reservoir of infection, the chances of it coming here or to europe will be lower. In the United States, we spend a lot of time talking about travel bans, travel restrictions. President obama and the cdc just yesterday announced they would be screening at airports. Very dangerous proposals on the table, particularly from senators asking for travel bans. That wouldve been disastrous, and made matters worse. I think the president did the most measured thing he could do. He is only going to be screening those passengers originating from one of the three most infected countries, sierra leone, guinea, liberia. He is to take her temperature. He is going to be asking them a series of questions. Airport authorities are. The next day, canada and the u k followed along. I think it is measured. Will keep us safe . Probably not. Fever screening is very difficult. It is a long incubation period. Thomas duncan would not have been flagged because he was not feverish or symptomatically they are going to be a lot false positives. We are entering peak flu season. Havee will more likely malaria or tuberculosis, which mimic the symptoms of ebola. It will divert resources, but hopefully will calm the public and ease the political pressure on the president to do something that could be truly counterproductive. Host right now, would you travel to liberia . Guest i would, but i would not be in direct patient contact. Hugging. In sierra leone, one would just do this. I would make sure to just keep a safe distance from individuals. The big risk of course is patient care. That is a very high risk. Host the cdc director was quoted as saying he is not seen anything like this since aids. Guest i know. , i good friends with tom know why he did it. In my lifetime, i could have never seen anything this catastrophic. But it is different, and it is very different. Someone with aids can live a long time, and transmit the infection right along. Had more than twice five outbreak since 1976. Outbreaks since 1976. We have been able to curb all of them. This is completely unprecedented, because all of the other ones were in rural areas. A very efficient virus. It actually kills its host to quickly. Too quickly. It is not airborne. It is very hard to spread. But when it got into three megacities, very poor cities in fragile states, it just took off. It has ravaged those countries. A big risk. D it is not the one we are worried about getting to the United States or the european union. The big risk is that it will , delhi,oothold in lagos were beijing. And then we could see a truly Global Worldwide disaster. Host you said you wouldnt shake hands, but ebola is not easy to catch . Guest it is not easy to catch. But a lot of my friends of come back from sierra leone and liberia. And we dont shake hands. Even when they are back. It is a precaution. Is not aands particularly hygienic thing to do. You shake your hand, new touch her mouth. And then you touch your mouth. It is not very infectious. Any bodilyt to avoid fluid, and therefore bodily contact. There is just an abundance of caution. Host to the legal side, we are coming to calls come i promise. , if this takes hold and lagers, or delhi in gos, or delhi, and becomes a pandemic, what could be done to quarantine, restrict, etc. . , which everyh. O. State has ratified, is only a Global Health emergency, they did it nearly sixmonth after the First International spread of ebola. The International Regulations dont give w. H. O. Any power. They can only make recommendations. Countries ignore it. And they do with the bull as well. Thing you can do that is binding at this moment is a un Security Council resolution. The u. N. , for only the second time in its history, and a health matter, did pass a resolution. It is binding, but the language in the resolution doesnt have the clearest binding force they would like to see. If it really spread, i would like to see the United States lead the un Security Council to a stronger resolution. That really helped with aids. I think could help with ebola as well. Host first call from robbie, in abilene, texas. Angry that they want close the border, stop the flights, and they are sending our troops over there to catch it and spread it to their families. Why dont they go, the government officials go, went out they go over there why dont they go over there . Guest this is a constant theme that you hear. Most americans want to shut the borders. This would be a bad idea. It would make the mistake a lot worse. This would make the epidemic a lot worse. You have a workers that cannot to the source countries. You have fragile states. Those states are going to just deteriorate. You will not be able to bring unitarian aid in or out. But governments are so fragile, you did have a collapse. The endemic there would unravel, and that would make it worse. You cant come in this global, modern society you cant put acellophane wrapper around disease and expected not to spread. It would be a disaster situation. If the United States did it, it would be symbolically unfortunate. We have been the Global Leader on health, and on ebola. There would be a cascading effect. All the countries in the world would then put on travel bans. In the countries would be devastated. You would be a humanitarian crisis. We cant do it. Host roger in washington. Good morning. Wont mind if you i slightly changed the subject. I want to ask about the enterovirus d68. I have two grandchildren living in san diego. People ared about saying the flood of children that came across the border the summer brought that in to our country. And they are scattered all around the country. And more children have died of the enterovirus d68 that has of the ebola. Would you address that for me . They have aarti had their flu anythingt is there else other than dont put their hands above their shoulders and wash four times a day that they can do . Host roger, thank you. Moment, a is at the larger risk to the United States. Not in terms of being highly but first of all, we always blame the immigrants for all diseases that we have. That is not the issue here. There is been circulating enterovirus is the United States for a long time. The best approach is good hygiene. Particularly good hand hygiene. Make sure you teach your kids to wash her hands. Be safe. Kids and stay safe. Host nina in mount vernon, new york. Caller good morning. Ask if the black people in this country, and in west africa are they aware that the u. S. Has a patent on ebola . Warfarebiological against blacks in this country and the west africans . Host do you think it is . Patent oney have a ebola. What is that about . Guest i dont believe the United States has a patent on ebola. The Supreme Court has ordered ruled already ruled you cant spread intellectual Property Rights over a naturally occurring virus. That would be true everywhere in the world. The inventor of the virus was in belgium not the inventor. The discoverer. Host where does ebola come from . Guest ebola has been circulating in Subsaharan Africa since 1976. Basically it comes from the most likely source fruit bats. Primates eat the fruit bats, so you have monkeys. And then individuals will eat bushmeat. Meaning primates . Guest sometimes they die, sue dont have the hunt them. Them, and they may have ebola. The first case in this outbreak was sought to be a twoyearold child from ginny, who probably would have eaten bushmeat. Contracted it, gave it to his parents, and his parents fled to the city. Host phil is in silver springs, maryland. Im very appreciative that the u. S. Is doing its best to control, if not eradicate, ebola in liberia. Im also glad that some International Companies are doing precisely that. My concern is that i was born in liberia. I have been in this country for well over 25 years. I think there is a job that needs to be done. I sincerely believe that the fears of most americans need to sibley because those of us who were born in liberia and have lived in this country forever have not been treated fairly. Once you tell someone you were born in liberia, the countenance of the pertinence of the person changes. They look at you as if you have ebola. That is terrible. I hope and pray that something could be done. I was wondering if anything else could be done to let people know that not everyone who is from ued. Ria is ebola plag guest that is a good point. Thank you for making it. And every major frightening this is a terrifying disease. There is a lot of stereotyping, a lot of blaming. We did that with aids, with the Gay Community for long time. Example, reagan, for didnt even use the word aids until late into his presidency. It is happening. There is a lot of stigma around ebola in the three affected countries themselves. Stigma ofthere was Thomas Duncan in the dallas region. Im sad to think that people think that if you are from liberia we need to do a better job of education. We need to calm the public spheres. S fears. C this is not going to be big in the United States. There will be more cases, but we should be able to contain them even that we had tragic missteps in dallas. I hope we will learn from those. Host could the airlines on their own pullout of these three countries . Guest they could, and some have. An airline it recently has been critical of british airways. As your ways did cancel its flights. British airways did cancel its flights, and other airlines have followed. It makes it hard for aid workers, it also cuts off the economy and commerce of these very poor countries. It is a bad idea. We need to stop that. From yourence gostin, perspective at georgetown university, and your association with w. H. O. , how have these three countries dealt with it so far . What kind of great would you give them grade would you give them . Guest everyone gets a lowgrade , those countries and here. You had shocking breaches of protocol. They are on the brink of collapse. They already had before the epidemic started, the three Lowest Health care worker to patient ratios that we have anywhere in the world. They have lost hundreds of doctors and nurses. They have died. You have the situation where people are unable to cope. When the director of w. H. O. Said people dont understand. W. H. O. Doesnt have the funding and the power, the countries are in charge. That might be fine if you were talking about the United States, or the u. K. , or france. But how is a postconflict country in charge . Irwas a country where the people have been tortured and starred for so long and have no Health Care System going to cope with this . They cant. At the moment, this epidemic is spinning out of control. And it never had to happen. It was very preventable. But we delayed far too long. Host david in sanford, maine. Go ahead. Caller lawrence, you say that we are screening at the airports starting as of yesterday. They have already mingled with the passengers. We dont know what they have passed on. If they had it, or havent had it. Im not for persecuting those three countries, but you set up a strawman saying that aid will not get to those countries. We have military transports, we can fly anything anywhere in the world. Anything they need will be at their disposal. We are talking about protecting the American People. I just explained to my grandson, who is 12 years old, i said the reason people are frightened is because it is a terrible way to die. Please let me hear your response. Guest it is frightening. Im not going to dispute that. It is among the worst ways to die. The virus literally attacks or organs, and organs bleed out. It has a very high death rate. Historically have had up to a 90 death rate, in the three affected countries, its been anywhere from 50 to 60 death rate. It probably would be lower in a high income country like United States. Somebody is, if coming from one of these areas, and they are really highly symptomatically the plane, we have protocols in place to deal with it. But most of the time, almost all of the time, they will be a mptomaticically asy on the plane. Goodw it makes people feel to say cut off travel, lets protect the American People, but it wont protect us. In the end, he will make us less safe, because it will make those countries more incapable of dealing with it. We want to deal with the problem, lets deal with it at its source. We say that all the time with terrorism. Lets not bring it here, lets deal with it there. That is true also. The real catastrophe is in those three countries. Host why is it not spread beyond those three countries in africa . Have been lucky. The First International spread outside those three countries was to lay ghosts lagos. We had real fears about what would happen in that country. It turns out it was a country that was able to cope. All of the film stars and celebrities came out to educate the public. The cdc flooded it, and we were able to contain it. But we have been lucky. I have to say we have been lucky. It could happen at any time, in any megacity that is poor and congested. And then we would be in trouble. We have to get this under control. Al, in ohio. Caller talk about wasting my call. We are talking about commercial flights. 150, 2 hundred a day coming in from this area, and you still cant answer the question. Stop saying aid workers cant get there. They could charter planes. Mr. Obama had better get on the ball. This is why he is dropping in the polls. We dont need to hear big stories. We can cure the problem over there, and nobody really wants to hear anything about the actors. Thank you. Guest first of all, there arent 150 planes the come in from that region. In fact, there are very few if directly from west africa. I think virtually all of them originate there, but they travel through one of the european hubs and then come to us. Passengers that originate from one of those three countries that enter the United States. We are now screening every one of those 150 passengers. We will know whether they have been symptomatically, we will take their temperature. We will know where they have been, who they have been with, and we will know where they are going. I think we have a good handle on this. It is so easy when you are frightened to overreact. But it is so important to be calm and measured, and do the right thing. Believe me. I would never recommend something i thought put the United States population at risk. We are not doing that. If we really want to protect ourselves, we need to beef up our obligate health and protector. You saw what happened in dallas. The hospital missed the diagnoses, even though they told them they had a travel history, they sent him home. Then they isolated or quarantined people who were his roommates in their apartment, but didnt decontaminate the apartment. A sheriffs assistant went into the apartment with no protection. Ambulance workers took him back, no protection. Dowe really want to something, and you really want to clamor for something, clamor for more congressional funding for Public Health and america. The fever screening is about as useful as removing your shoes. It slows down security lines with no real increase in safety. It has a ring of truth to it. Idea ofass on the whether the shoes make any difference. It certainly irritates me. Of hight in a lot Income Countries in the world. In terms of fever screening, it is true it probably wont make much of a difference. Most people wont have fevers. If they do have fevers, they will have fevers from the flu or some other disease. Didact, during sars, they mass fever screenings. When i was traveling during sars to beijing, all firstclass passengers were given tylenol by the airlines. I wasnt in first class. Fevers. Ed any potential you can game the system. But it is a measured response. Doing is taking peoples temperatures. We are not making the lines longer. Day, atst 150 people a five Major International airports. It is just a few people at each of those airports. It is not going to be a big travel inconvenience. At the same time, it might reassure the public. Hearing yesterday, john kelly, commander of the u. S. Southern command responsible for Central America south america was quoted as out,g as if ebola breaks it is katie bar the door in terms of the mass migration of Central Americans into the u. S. Guest i wouldnt have put it quite that way. It is a little meanspirited. If he got into a country like haiti or another poor country, that would be the country that would have the humanitarian disaster. They just had cholera that the u. N. Brought in, and a humanitarian disaster already. Yes, we would probably have more people coming with the disease to the United States. But you have to member this remember this, ebola is not virus. Cularly efficient that someone was to get into the United States, if you have a bowler, you are going to get really sick and you will like it here. It isnt aerosolized, and the virus is inefficient. It just kills its host to efficient make it an virus. It is not one i would worry about a great deal. I would worry about some novel mosquito borne diseases that are in latin america at the time. They are migrating up to the United States. Ebola is not a particularly great threat to the United States. It is making a scared. But we are a country that can contain it if it arises here. There will be cases, there will be outbreaks. I cant totally reassure you. I think the white house has been too reassuring in the sense that they think we are the best Health Care System in the world. We arent at our best as we saw in dallas. Health over 3000 local departments. We have tens of thousands of hospitals. We have variable capabilities, we do shore that up. Cynthia from kingston, jamaica. Caller i have listened to this gentleman talk, and the more he talks, the more he worries me. Why isnt everything in the world coming into the United States . Weve a soldier in mexico that no one is doing anything for him. When it spreads, the way you will live in america, the white makee there that helped to america what it is will run for the hills. Talk, but ebola is dangerous. It has always been there. You need to do something to protect the public. Stop the planes from coming in. Guest i have been trying to calm the public. Forgive me if you have been alarmed. There really is no reason to be alarmed. Disease is coming into the United States all the time. Remember, we are part of a global community. Diseases dont come to the United States anymore than they come to any other country in the world. We have been one of the most fortunate countries in the world. We live in a climate where we dont have a lot of malaria, dengue fever. We dont have some of the really devastating diseases in the world. We are a fortunate come a privileged country. You are one of several callers that have suggested some racial component to this. Us to be divided. I really want us to come together on this. If anything should bring us together, it should be a Global Health threat. We should unify, we shouldnt stereotype, we shouldnt divide, we shouldnt blame it. We should just have a good, scientificallybased locale approach. That will keep us the safest. Host is it legal, ethical, to quarantine people . Guest it is legal and ethical in the United States to quarantine people under certain circumstances. Thele misunderstand difference between isolation and quarantine, which are different things. You isolate a known to both patient ebola patient. A confirmed case like Thomas Duncan in dallas was isolated. It is unquestionably lawful to do that. To quarantineful somebody who you have good reason to believe has been exposed, and might have the virus. You can quarantine them for the period of incubation. But you need to do it with good evidence. You need to have a court like review, if it is challenged. And you need to keep the people safe. The big problem i have with what happened in dallas is that the court have said that quarantine is not a criminal offense. It is not something that you are punishing someone with. You have a responsibility to keep them safe and keep them in humane conditions. To force for people into a home that hasnt been decontaminated, with soiled bedsheets and soiled towels, is unconscionable, unethical, and also unlawful. It took days before they were able to accommodate them. You have four people who were living with mr. Duncan. Have one of them did contract to be ebola virus. The other three didnt. It them all in the same house with contaminated material, and they can cross contaminate. It wasnt smart, and it was a very big breach of protocol. We just need to really learn from those lessons. David in albuquerque. Caller im really confused. I dont understand. Both you and the director of the cdc both have said that we have allow flightsld coming in. Containment the rule of some in the medical world . The old way you will contain it is to keep people where they have the disease. Is that all right . Actually an 18th or 19th century view. The Current International Health Regulations which govern global epidemics for the w. H. O. Date back to the First International Health Conference in paris in 1860. The whole idea there was nations in europe and then the United States came aboard through the Panamerican Health organization. They basically took the view that they wanted to seal off plague and other nasty diseases from the south coming to europe and north america. That is a really antiquated way of thinking about it. Also if you need to, screen people coming into this country in a sensible way. We are doing that in a measured way. It will make things worse. Epidemic inuel the those three countries. They wont be able to cope. Contain a, you cant highly pathogenic disease and a little region. Weve never been able to do it. In a modern and globalized world would you can get on a plane and go to beijing and then to washington dc or to frankfurt or and a and then here, world of International Travel with highly congested if you look at the panoramas of the skies of flight coming to and from the United States, you simply cant stop International Travel. To do so would be unlawful. If the United States would declare a travel ban, we would be in violation of international law. It is not a place we want to go. I am pleased that president obama is taking this off the table. Host jackie is in connecticut. Caller hi. Host were listening. Callingthe reason i was is back in the 80s i read a book called the hot zone. The ebola virus in the dangers of the disease. , the World Health Organization and the cdc were all aware of the fact that if it became an epidemic how serious and deadly it would be. , if they knew of this disease and what could happen, why havent they worked on antiviral or vaccinations like eradicating polio . The aids virus became worldwide before we did something about that. We spend money on other things. This is one of the most dangerous of viruses and both of these organizations have done a thing dan nothing preventative. Guest there are a variety of reasons. One, it is easy to look back in hindsight. Mentioned, wehave have always been able to contain it. There was a sense of complacency. Nobody thought this could take hold in three cities. It has never happened before. The other reason is that we have onn focusing on research diseases that have much more higher burdens of disease. Or potentially a Global Pandemic like polio which we are nearly as a point of eradicating it. Perhaps in hindsight, it was a mistake. The issue is an economic one. The private sector is usually a big engine for innovation. They have been ignoring ebola the market is unpredictable. We never knew we would have an outbreak like this. People who get it are too poor to pay the price that we would want to charge if we had a patent on it. , we dide two reasons not ramp up production. We are now. It is a genuine question. Is this a pivotal time we want to rethink our research . Caller this is a ridiculous conversation. You are saying we should import this virus into this country. Guest i didnt say that. It is only 150 people a day. Tampa area. We have a dozen people come in. There is no additional screening. People, they are not going to be touched at all. Philosophy that liberals take on the border. Takee saying we will everybody in from these countries. Die ifople are going to a student host several calls along these lines. Guest i does basically want to ever in issueas that wasnt a democrat or republican, liberal or conservative issue, its health. We all have to rally around health. Im not taking a liberal position. Im taking a Public Health position that is based on science. We need to calm some of the fears. We need to be vigilant. We need to do the right Public Health thing. We are not importing this virus. There has been one diagnosed case on american soil. One case. It is not going to lead to a major outbreak area we will be vigilant and careful. If you want to make americans safer, the thing to do is invest in our Public Health infrastructure. 2 of all one or Health Dollars are spent on Public Health. The rest go on hightech medicine. You want to think strengthen Health Departments and local hospitals, this is what we need to do. We dont need to try to punish who are undergoing a tragic humanitarian disaster. Host larry is in tennessee. Caller i have two questions. Before the fever shows up after a person is exposed to ebola . How aboutquestion is in those three countries that have been exposed or infected, how lets apply those countries days andgh food for 21 then have the governments tell the people to stay indoors for that. Of time . Beler the incubation could up to 21 days from the time you are exposed to the time that you have symptoms. Typically it can be about a week to 10 days. It can go as long as 21 days. It makes it very hard to detect. You can get on a plane in europe in 24 hours and symptoms may not arise. In terms of providing food and humanitarian assistance, we should have been doing it a long time ago. We need to do a lot more. There is also a Food Security crisis there. Lockdown, ive never been in favor of. Sierra leone did do that. They had a several date lockdown where everybody was forced to stay in their homes. That exacerbated the problem. Congregated in their homes and may have cross infected. Many couldnt go to work. They couldnt get food. Farmers couldnt get out. In the end, it didnt change the course of the epidemic at all. We want to lock everything down. We want to stop the planes. That is not going to work. I know our basic common sense is just keep it over there and seal it up. You just cant. Host two comments and a question during twitter. Guest there is nothing that i that iid or would say think United States should do that would violate our constitution. Quite the reverse. In his the president decisions about screening is well within the authority of the constitution. In terms of Public Health, what i said was to increase our funding for Public Health. Usis our safest bet to keep safe from chronic disease and not just ebola. Drugs, we do want to rapidly develop medications and vaccines. The nih is doing that. I have been working with them. Startedwe have finally ramping up production. Vaccineswo promising in first phase Clinical Trials at the moment. This is his peace. If youre interested in reading it for yourself. Finally, the washington post. Talking about how ebola could spread. You can see some figures there. You can read that for yourself. Thank you for being us with us. We are going to turn our attention to the situation in the middle east. The outlook with isis. Then we will talk about Domestic Violence as well on washington journal. Tonight at 9 00 on cspan, a moral service for president reagans press secretary. On saturday night, colin powell talks about world affairs. Lend money explosion nearly killed them and changed his life. 8 00, ralph nader talks about taking on the issues that plague america. A surgeon on why he feels medical science could do more for the aged and dying. Sunday, naomi klein on freemarket capitalism and its impact on climate change. Curator and director of the cia museums virginia, the mission of preserving and presenting the agencys history. Theking georges war of 1740s, how it helped the colonists. As you can find our Television Schedule and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Tweet. Send us a join us be span cspan conversation. Host how many middle east countries are allied with the United States . Caller it depends on how you define the term. Those countries are taking part in military operations against isis include the at aired emirates, jordan, by rain . Saudi arabia, that is about it. So far. There been controversy over whether turkey will actually be in gauged engaged. Chuck hagel this morning asked they would besaid requesting to use a large airbase close to syria. Engagent to use it to operations against isis. So far they have not said if they would. Of dilemmasnumber when it comes to isis. There is tremendous concern about retaliation. They also have a different diagnosis of the problem. They believe that isis is the result of the syrian civil war. You will eventually take care of the isis problem. That is a simplistic view of things. It is also selfserving. The andbeen calling for of the regime. That is what they believe to be the case. American call for regime change, they will be reluctant to get involved. Situation,to this the turks have not made up their minds which is more dangerous. Of a rock intate syria or an independent kurdish enclave in northern syria. Turkey has its own kurdish population. About 20 of the population. They been fighting a battle against a terrorist organization sense the mid1980s. Kurdish nationalism is on the dramas in turkish politics that is yet to be resolved. Helping the kurds will help the kurds in turkey. Independent. Ore this is the headline in the wall street journal. U. S. Aboutted is the this . It has been quite maddening. President of turkey has insisted that they dont assist isis or support isis. There is evidence to the contrary. Has the second or Third Largest military in nato. They could be taking part in the airstrikes. The dilemmas that we just pointed out are deeply reluctant to get involved. Host we are talking about the crisis in the middle east. The fight with isis in the allied response. You can contact us the a social media. You can send an email. Much has this cost monetarily so far . Guest its very hard to tell. Using very expensive 150,000. At cost and of the getty but he really knows how much. There been estimates of 1 billion a week. The question people had is are the kinds of airstrikes that they are undertaking, is it doing enough damage to be worth the kind of expenditure that we are absorbing as result of this . Been unable to stop isis. If they are entrenched. We have pushed them back in places. The intensification of airstrikes has slowed their advance. They control half of that city. The logic of air power is that it supports ground forces. We dont have it in the Iraqi Security forces. There was a big article in the andington post about how what our province is about to fall to isis as well. Are holding out as best they can. There is no one else on the ground. When you look at a map of turkey and you see that it is on it border of iraq and syria, is far away from the border. Two they feel as far removed if you live in istanbul as we do . A grandt is cosmopolitan city. It is one of the largest kurdish cities in the world. To the extent that the kurds are unhappy to save their cousins in tension ine is been istanbul. There are reports of threats against shopping centers. Immune to kurdish terrorism or violence or popular uprising. Quite awarele are of what is happening and concerned. There is a sentiment to stay out of this conflict. The founder of the republic of saying about the home and peace in the world. Their pursuit of more activist Foreign Policy over that. There is a reluctance on the part of large numbers of turks to get involved in foreign adventures. The considered a foreign adventure to those people. Host we are talking about the isis situation. Paul is in tennessee. Caller good morning. I just want to make a point here. We lost a lot of blood and treasure in iraq. This is just another example that this administration is hating george w. Bush. He listened to his generals. We took control of that country. Ran for thent presidency said he would pull the troops out. He done that. He made a big mistake. This president is just a pushover. They can do anything they want. This is a holy war. This is not just some little war. These guys mean business. Host i think we got the point. Guest the collar points out , buthing that is serious not directly related to this. You can make a compelling that things were mistakes. The problems of extremist groups resent could have been predicted and many people warned the Bush Administration of this. They went forward. Then you can make a compelling case that the Obama Administrations allowed from iraq with something that was going to lead to the destabilization of the country. I dont know how productive this is. Where we areation confronting the Islamic State of iraq. It is taken over a large piece of territory and threatens to take over more. This is a threat to the interests of our allies. A responsibility to iraq, we need to point out that large numbers of American People supported the withdrawal from iraq. Large numbers of americans have up until this point been deeply and profoundly reluctant to get directly involved in this conflict. Host charles, good morning. Aller i like to make comment. I know there are a lot of people who disagree about what they should do about it, as an expert marine xd marine, i dont see why were sitting back and not doing anything. We are talking about a town of people that is going to be slaughtered and we are talking and saying we will talk about this in a couple of days. We are waiting for two or three days to talk about something. People dontan want us to go over there and have an all we volunteer military. Heref the ask people over that would volunteer to fight them people. Host thank you sir. Guest the caller raises a point about waiting. I like it has been much sitting back and waiting. The United States is increased airstrikes around the area. Now asre officials right well as other officials who are engaged in the dramatic discussions with the turkish government. They are the obvious government to go to. Turks arem is the profoundly reluctant to get involved. Theyre worried about retaliation. They believe the real resolution is the assad regime. They have said that they would take part in a military unitedon against isis if states had ground forces. I think american officials and the military leadership and i anxious to engage in regime change in syria as well. Policy a very difficult and it is layered with complexity. It goes to the fundamental problem that is raging in the middle east. Thattakes are so high unless the United States wants to bring tremendous force to isnt much of the that states can do without its allies going to take the fight as well. Host jim is in illinois. We are talking about the middle east situation. Caller i want to make a couple of points. Turkish kurds. A huge implication with turkeys relationship with germany. To fighturds went against isis. We have a situation where turkey has ramifications for what is going to happen in europe. These people are going to come back with superior fighting skills and have helped. , there werego attacks on kurds who were protesting against isis. That happened in cities around hamburg. They were wielding machetes and knives. Implicationsn has to spill over into europe very quickly. The turks need to make a decision. What side of history and culture and trade do they want to be on . Those are important questions. I think one of the major issues hurting turkeys relationship with europe is the flow foreigners from europe whether they be kurds or europeans or americans using a turkish territory to transit on their way to undertake the fight in syria. The concern is those people will and that going back through turkey and the United States or europe. Skills andighting can use them in terrorist attacks wherever they come from. This is something that the United States and europe have been warning the turks about. In being of been slow aware of this problem. I think there is a capacity dontm i think the turks have a great capacity in terms of bordercontrol as everybody we them to have. There are two other things. When the civil war in syria really got started in late 2011 and became clear that the net states and other western military powers were yo not goig wereer in the fight, not going to interfere in the fight, the turks turned a blind and began making their way down to the border area and crossing over to join the fight against assad in damascus. Become morehat has of a coordination with certain extremist groups. In way of punishing the assad regime absent this western that political decision was made to turn a blind eye and suddenly ordinate with these groups. The turks have a different view. The Prime Minister who had been viewsreign minister turkey as a muslim power. There is a constituency within the ruling justice and the isist portion that views as a legitimate group in defending sunni interest. Believing thats the future of the region. You raise an important question that european and american groups have been raising with the turks. They need to make a decision about what is a threat to them and what is not a threat to them. I dont think they have to make a decision whether they are part of the west or not. The turks answer to that is we would like to have a 360 degree Foreign Policy. We also have interests in the middle east and muslim world as well. Is assad benefiting from this situation. Of thethis is one astonishing ironies of what we are now doing. Airstrikes against the islamic syria are taking a certain amount of pressure off of assad regime. There is evidence assad regime pause in itsg this own fight with isis while isis is busy in other places in dealing with this military involvement of the u. S. And allied nations to step up their own military operations against rebels. They have been using bombs, dropped chlorine bombs on civilian populations. A terrible, brutal civil war. Thats an unfortunate consequence of what we are doing. It speaks to the extraordinarily complex situation in syria and iraq right now. In georgia. Is good morning. Youre on with stephen cook. Caller good morning, cspan and steve. I agree with something you said earlier. This whole thing goes all the way back to iraq. Seemed theyerica did not want to go to iraq. Once congress voted to give bush the power to go over there, america needed to get behind. The American People did not want the war to go on in iraq. One of the things obama did was try to end the war. Thats what he should have done, but he should not have come out the way he came out and left that whole situation vulnerable. I dont agree with a lot of the stuff that mccain and was a gram Lindsey Graham was doing about how we need to leave troops and all of that, but he needed to fix that situation. People pulled out without fixing that situation and then he went to libya and got involved in that. He drew his redline and he didnt fix that situation. Other lot of this countries dont trust americans anymore because they are not doing what theyre supposed to do. Guest youve raised a lot of important issues part of the foreignpolicy debate in this country right now. Let me address each one of them. There is this sense the United States picked up and left iraq in december 2011 and left it without the means available to protect itself. I dont think thatcases the the United States has invested tremendously in iraqi forces. But the former Prime Minister quickly undermined the armed forces in his own effort to establish his own political control and consolidate his power. It is certainly the case that once the United States withdrew, the situation deteriorated here tothe United 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 dont think this was a lack of trying. You mentioned a libya, which is a poor gotten country in the debate these days. Theyve 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 way. Thisstion of redline is a line when president obama redline, hene of a will regret having said that line. When looking back, that was a significant foreignpolicy blunder. One year later, when the United States to discover assad regime had used chemical weapons, we did not follow through. The American People were opposed to this kind of involvement. The president had uttered that word and it reads questions in the minds of American Allies about what our intentions are. There has been a yearlong drumbeat of criticism from americas allies in the middle about the demonstration of American Leadership. When you ask them what different policies they would pursue in syria and iraq and libya, they cant articulate it all they want in terms of American Leadership is for the night states to do for them what they been doing, whether that is bomb under my assad regime or a whole host of other things that arent in the interests of the United States. Host stephen cook is our guest. In northport, new york. Caller good morning, guys. A quick question. Thegoing on in yemen shia revolution. How is that going to affect saudi arabia and the shia population over there . Many countries involved in this. Is this still a continuation of the arab spring . Are we witnessing a restructuring of the borders . Guest good morning to northport, new york. Close to my own hometown. Yemen is also a country that has not necessarily been in the headlines. By theas been a push militias into the capital, taking over the government buildings. This is an unstable situation. The saudis accused the iranians of supporting them. And the way the saudis view the a fight between the sunni powers and the major shia power of iran, it has added the sectarian dimension into this conflict. Regard everything going on around them as a major threat to their own security. That is why they have been investing in their own society in order to keep the population we us in acquiescent and around them, pointing troops to theain, helping to support general, the president of egypt who came to power through an detat innd a coup july 2013. I would not use a continuation of the arab spring terminology. Arabs around the region are engaged in a highstakes struggle over how we define themselves in their countries. How they do find themselves and their countries. Its unclear that the people who live there actually believe the country makes sense. That these countries are going to go away and somehow there is going to be a reshuffling of the borders is an interesting experiment, but i dont think its actually going to happen. These struggles over identity, held to order their society is going to go on for a long time in places like yemen and libya and egypt. There is going to be a significant amount of medical turmoil and violence political turmoil and violets. And violence. Caller good morning. You have answered my questions so far. I know the American Military is not the doctor of the world. Leaving iraq in the way we did was a mistake. We still have to help somehow. Account on americans many times. They count on americans many times. Host it was a mistake we went in and the first place or that we came out . Caller it was too fast. We should have negotiated. We should not have left the iraq the way we did. The American Army over there was the number one authority. Guest maria raises an important question. The United States military is not the police of the world. Or the doctor of the world. The people who agree the most is the u. S. Military. This has been a very long and difficult period. From the invasion of afghanistan in october of 2001 to the invasion of iraq in march of 2003, the United States has been militarily in this part of the world for more than a decade. The vast states has been engaged in the conflict almost funny the United States has been engaged in the conflict almost 25 years now. We have been engaged militarily ever since with that country. It certainly you concern they make the case that leaving iraq was a mistake. The iraqis did not want to sign the status of forces agreement. Underminedeadership the Iraqi Security forces on ability to establish control and maintain peace around the country. The United States has a , butnsibility to iraq iraqis themselves also have a response billy we have given them a tremendous amount of resources. Themselves also have a responsibility. Host david is in florida. Caller good morning, america. m a little confused here if this man here is the expert. He has been around for a long time. I remember when we first started the war and i remember everything the area where we walked out of iraq. You hit a bit on it in the last call. I want to get this straight once and for all. The president of the united 2008 went to iraq and said point blank, we want to stay. That country said you dont push us around. What you do is you listen to us. We want you gone. Why do you continue letting these people blame president obama for something that took place during the Bush Administration . We knew we were being thrown out of there before the president even got to be the president of the that states. Host we will get an answer from stephen cook right now. Guest david raises a very good point. The Obama Administration did go to the iraqi leadership and say we would like to have the status of forces agreement that allows a certain number of American Forces there. There are legal exemptions given to American Forces when they are under Status Forces Agreement. Sentimentgovernment did not agree to the stipulations of the Status Forces Agreement and as a result come in december of 2011, the United States withdrew from iraq. This is a situation that was created by the invasion of iraq. We can debate that from today until tomorrow. We are stuck with the situation now in iraq where the country is tearing itself a part. The Islamic State of iraq controls a significant amount of territory. That iswestern province adjacent to baghdad is on the verge of falling to the Islamic State in the same way that this kurdish city in syria is on the verge of falling because so much press attention has been put on it. Host kerry is in locust grove, georgia. Caller good morning. Im a retired navy chief. I spent 20 years in the navy. I was a Multinational Peacekeeping force in lebanon. Spent several appointments in the persian gulf. Personnel are loyal to the military and the navys motto. People need to realize that president s are commander the president is the commanderinchief. We have to be able to trust them. I know my brothers and sisters on active duty trust them. They have security clearances. The only thing you know is what you need to know. On active duty dont know everything about everything going on over there. I hope that everybody can trust our commander in everyone continue to support our troops. Host in common for him . Any comment for him . Has a lot of firsthand experience of the complexities of the region going back more than 30 years. His point about trusting the commanderinchief and the military leaders, we certainly do need to trust the commanderinchief. There is something called a civilian control. One of the things that make this country different is there is a robust civilian debate about the use of American Force around the region. We would not want to lose that. We do need to understand that come ultimately, the president makes a decision, that is something the military is going to do. Withdrawing from iraq were invading iraq. Host stephen cook, please come back. One more segment this morning. We are going to look at the mystic violence in america. We will be right back. We are going to look at Domestic Violence in america. We will be right back. Caller our campaign 2014 coverage continues with a week full of debates. 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You can go ahead and make a comment. I will introduce you to our guests. Paulette Sullivan Moore is the Vice President at the National Network to end Domestic Violence. And Michael Planty is with the bureau of justice statistics unit. Lets start with you. How does the Justice Department defined Domestic Violence . Thats a good question. Many terms are used to describe Domestic Violence. We are talking about the mystic violence which includes violence against males and females involving their spouse come exspouse or boyfriend or girlfriend. Andeasure Family Violence violence against other relatives. Its a larger umbrella. Thelso focus on Relationship Violence between intimates. Host is there a baseline for what violence is . Does it take a specific physical act or what . Guest we include in our survey violence includes aggravated assault, simple assault or serious injury, rape and Sexual Assault and robbery. That is our spectrum for violence. Host how many people . What percentage of the American Public is involved in a Domestic Violence situation every year . About every year, we have 2 Million People involved with victimization. We know that over time, this has declined significantly. For the past 20 years, weve seen the rates decline almost 70 . ,ost paulette Sullivan Moore how did the network could started . Guest the National Network to end Domestic Violence is a social change organization. It began in 1994. We worked very hard on getting the initial violence against women act passed. Pyramid. Look like a we have the coalitions here and below than the 2300 Service Programs that advocate for the victims. Host how did you get involved . Guest quite frank lee, i was looking for a job. Quite frankly, i was looking for a job. The organization before the National Network i was an attorney in delaware and became it became a good marriage. The folks in these he asked me to come work for them. Host weve put the numbers up on your screen. Divided by the regions. Divided by region. Who are the perpetrators of Domestic Violence . Guest the perpetrators are primarily men. Rangegh, the statistics from 715 of the victims being men depending on which a survey you look at. There are a number of surveys that are out there. They give us some consistent data, which is that primarily women are the victims of Domestic Violence and men are also victims sometimes. When women are victimized, they are harmed much more than men were harmed. Needing to go to a shelter or a hospital. Men dont report those consequences. Why is it valuable to know who is committing Domestic Violence . Guest if you are trying to fix something, you have to know what the cause is. We are living in a society where we want to fix the mystic violence. One of the causes is the paternalism in our society. The undervaluing of women in our society. We want to fix Domestic Violence. We are nowted that working with the National Football league to address violence towards Partner Violence the nfl is such a cultural important entity. Some great impact on the cultural shift as a result of this. Host have you found that the nfl situation has raised awareness of this issue . Guest absolutely. Our office does a 24 hour survey every year. We call it our Domestic Violence census. What we know come in that 24 hour period, we get about 20,000 hotline calls. When we have a National Hotline gets the about 700 of those calls a day. The National Hotline and all of the state and local hotline numbers ticked up after the additional publicity given to that crime. Lets look at some of the statistics that the bureau of justice statistics puts out. Who commits Domestic Violence . Onst would you see here male victims and female victims spirit what five for females is ormarily spouse, boyfriend girlfriend. This includes more than intimate Partner Violence, but also Family Violence prefer males, you see a significant amount of sibling and other relatives involved. Victims areemale timized by a espouse orbit by a spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend. We interview them in person or over the phone repeatedly over a threeyear period. Host half was reported to police. Guest we see about 50 of Violent Crime reported to the police. For serious violence, you get slightly more reporting to the police. That is related to injury and weapon use. In see that consistently crime in general. The more serious in nature, it gets reported. 100 you would think should be reported or would be reported. Why is it less than 60 . Guest i think those numbers probably are not very different for the reporting of crimes across the country for any kind of crime. Particularly for Domestic Violence crimes difficult for a person report. Anally speaking english person may not speak english. Or they live in a community where police are not viewed as friends had a person who is committing a crime against his right there in your home its more difficult to report the crime. They have found a specific reasons. Feelnnothey did not involved. Should be host we are going to begin with a call from george in california. Hi. Er i had a situation one time with a girlfriend beating me up. I was a victim of a crime. When i went to try to get some counseling, they give you a slip from the sheriff. I was there for about 30 minutes at the center down in bakersfield and they called me the next day and said i wasnt eligible for the counseling as a victim. I found that to be strange. Host did they tell you why you werent able to get it . Caller nope. Host how frequent is this female on male Domestic Violence . Usst the statistics tell 15 of victims are men. Nij did a wonderful baseline the female on male is a much lower number. Im not sure when this gentleman sought help. All of the Domestic Violence advocates are trained to make certain they understand the nature of the violence. Unfortunately, we sometimes run into false reporting on the part of men to test the system to see if we are serving them. I hope that was not the situation here. Those advocates were trained to assess a persons need. If a person needs counseling, they certainly will provide it regardless of gender. We well have been serve in that 24 hour period about 64,000 people. We had to turn away more than 10,000 requests for service that your. That year. Do you find men are less willing to report . Guest its an interesting question. We do have some concern that men dont report to the police or to our survey because there is a stigma attached to it. They dont feel it rises to a level of a crime or a physical. Iolence report they tend to report more physical violence when they do. Host janet is in venice, florida. Caller i think this is a significant issue. View,sue, in my point of is the other people who are victims of this Domestic Violence, mainly the children. I sought counseling late in life. I was diagnosed with ptsd. Seized parentsd being abused, they want to do something and they cant. Sees parentsld being abused, they want to do something and they cant. Player. R was a football he liked to fight. He likedint, he said to hurt people. Felt badow older he about a lot of things that happened. The damage was done to the children. From lets get a response paulette Sullivan Moore. Guest you are so absolutely right. Damage is done to children. One of the things thats great about our program is that we try morey to Push Congress for and more money because we need to be able to serve children. There is not enough money to serve everybody. There clearly is not enough money to serve all of the children who need services and they all do. Peter asked me why i started doing this work and i told him they needed an attorney. Iter i began the work, discovered how much the mystic violence had been in my own household. Muchember trying to how Domestic Violence had been in my own household. It was back in the day when you had the dial phone. I was dialing and i would have one more number to dial and my father discovered i had gone downstairs to phone i was not able to help my mother that night. We need much more funding so that children can understand be able topening and receive assistance and we need more money to keep the protective parents safe. Too often, the parent that is not the protective parent seeks child custody. Too often, they get it. Its a horrible situation and it requires us to have a lot more judicial training and have more training for evaluators. Other people who interact with Domestic Violence and Child Welfare issues. Host did you feel you suffered from ptsd . Childrenthink that thrive and survive in very different ways. I have never been diagnosed as having ptsd, but i certainly can understand janet having that. And understand ever their children and understand other children to recognize those crippling behaviors had negative impacts on their development. Host chris is in gaithersburg, maryland. Caller good morning. Brokenhave a chart o down by races or economic status . Have the risk by demographics. When you look across age, younger persons are at much greater risk than older folks. We see that for race, american surveys haves all a very elevated risk for the mystic violence and intimate Partner Violence. Domestic violence and intimate Partner Violence. Differenceslative 20 higher for blacks compared to whites. 20 less for hispanics compared to whites. You see that decline over time. Different groups benefited from a larger decline than others. Hispanics, where you had about an even decline based on gender. When you are trying to understand this problem, to see who is benefiting from the areas laws and legislation , trans are very important to provide context trends are very important to provide context. Folks in the lower economic income levels tended to report higher rates of violence in general. There is a risk across the board. No one is immune from the mystic violence. No one is immune from Domestic Violence. You so much for doing these studies. We depend on them so much as we are talking to congress about policy. Americanpeak about indians, one of the important factors to note is that the people who are committing most of the crimes against native american women are not native american men. They are not native american men. Very happy in this last iteration that we were able to include a provision that says that if a nonnative american man works on native land and an act against a native woman, the native authorities have jurisdiction over him. Its unbelievable that if you lived in maryland and you went to virginia and you committed a crime of Domestic Violence against someone, virginia would not be able to do anything because only maryland would have jurisdiction. That is what had been happening with our tribal laws and our law positions. One of the things we have learned from our work with the allstate foundation, it is not easier,n but less of a barrier if you have some resources to extricate yourself from the abusive relationship. It doesnt make it easy, but it makes it one last barrier. When we know that white women men ifan white you have to hire a lawyer or find a new place to live, when your resources are already compromised, its an additional barrier. Host julia is in south carolina. Caller good morning. Atlanta. A nurse in he was killed about two years ago. Got the medical examiner the medical examiner would not look at the partner. I am really frustrated. His partner killed himself a year later. Are you saying that the partner killed him . He was beaten up at day a day before and the medical examiner saw that and they did not even make an inquiry. Visit my son died of a broken heart. They said my son died of a broken heart. Host what are you inferring with this story . Caller there is so much hatred out there for different aspects of life. Host was your son gay . Caller yes. Host in 2013, 46 people were killed by Domestic Violence in south carolina. Kstraightoked at demographic gay straight demographic . Guest there is limited information. They are at a greater risk for Domestic Violence. They are less likely to seek services. Its a double door affect the re. Guest my heart goes out to julia. I think its important for us to remember that every human beings life is valuable. Regardless of who they love. Its really unconscionable that someone would not look into an investigation. My heart goes out to her. Other Prosecution Offices and other Police Departments have an opportunity to hear what julia just described to us and understand that every criminal case needs to be investigated. One of the things we were able to improve his to specifically include is to specifically include that persons regardless of sexual an orientation are to begin enforceable full civil rights in making certain that domestic is not a scorch in any community. I worked with a Domestic Violence program in hawaii in the 1980s. After being arrested by the police and being sent to family court, they were in our program and i was a mediator with a woman. ,t was a sixmonth Program Every saturday for two hours, we would discuss what went on. The big thing was getting over their denial. Range in hawaii of people i had a japanese architect who. I had a japanese architect. Its a human matter. Im trying to get together with the owner of the ravens in the underwear people under armour who has been based there. This is a conversation that needs to be had. Host do you find recidivism . Are you finding evidence of that . Guest we know from our studies that the victims report that the offender has committed this crime multiple times. 50 of theests, offenders have committed a crime against the victim previously. For fatal violence, women that are murdered, they often have nonfatal violence against them previously and have reported it to the police. Host mark is in st. Paul. Aller i am a divorce attorney i have two points i would like to make. There was an article, an opinion piece in Time Magazine on june 25, 2014 of this year. Which cathy young wrote. That this to stakes and studies indicate that violence of females against males is trivialized. There was a study done in the journal of Family Violence which indicated as much. I believe your tests are minimizing the violence that goes the other way because it seems like they are focusing on male versus female violence. This was dating back 40 years to a study in 1975, the National Violence survey which indicated that women were more likely to be the aggressors in many of these the mystic violence situations. Domestic violence situations. She indicated defining violence as a man taking away a the childrens. Taking where the children. 8090 of women in divorce situations are therefore Domestic Violence perpetrators because that threaten almost always seems to be made. Host lets get an answer from paulette Sullivan Moore. Guest thank you for your comment. I think you misunderstand what i said about whether or not a is an act of Domestic Violence. The things i think your comment points out to us you say most of your clientele is male. Inause men earn more society, they are more able to hire attorneys. We know that more divorce attorneys only hear one side of the story. Most of their clientele is male. To contactourage you your state Domestic Violence coalition to receive some updated statistics. You were citing 1975 numbers. Learn a bit more about the issue. I would like to speak on behalf of men, in particular black men. Regarding visitation. Andwoman abuses the system uses it against a man. I was all into that she won out, you are out. You are not taking my daughter. That is my child. I found the court system to work more towards a woman than the men. Women use the system to make false claims. Go too court and they say mediation. You dont mediate the court order. The woman needs to comply with the visitation order. The system is not fair, particularly for the black family. Host we believe it there and get a response from paulette Sullivan Moore. Guest thank you for your comments. Im not exactly certain what the dynamics of your particular case was. To do ises are charged look at the interest of the child. One of the standards is whether or not someone is committing an Domestic Violence. If your wife wanted out of the marriage for that reason, the court would then require that your contact with the child be limited. Host are you finding that there are false reports . Find falseont reports of Domestic Violence. Themst, we dont find any greater than any false reports. They file a claim with their Insurance Company that the vehicle has been stolen. Of things. Ll kinds we are not finding that there what we dot know from the victims we Work Programs that serve them, it is so awful to have to report to anyone that you are a victim of Domestic Violence. No one is going to make that up. That harmgoing to say came to them that did not come to them. Nancy is calling from pennsylvania. Whyer i want to know whitecollar men are given a pass on Domestic Violence and child abuse. Attorney. Law is an he has a topsecret clearance. My daughter was an officer in the navy for many years. She seems to have zero credibility. Host are you saying your soninlaw was domestically violent towards your daughter . Caller yes. She has a permanent shoulder injury. Host what was the situation . Did you contact the police . Caller it happened three times. The last time, she contacted the police. Move,e he used a stealth a pain control hold where you andt the wrist inward transfer the trauma to the the divorce has gone on for years. Host i think we got her point. Why are whitecollar men given a pass . Is always an issue in any jurisprudence situation. See so many men who arrived when they arrive at the scene, they are so calm and collected. Manghlevel corporate commanded that committed heinous acts of Domestic Violence against his family. Because of who he was come of users abusers can be corporate or political leaders. People its difficult for us. I had a tennis partner who was abusing his wife. Afternot find out until he died from a heart attack that he had been abusing her. I found out from another neighbor who was home during the day and got to see what was going on. We just dont know. Our obligation is to look and see if we can. Speak up when its a Family Member or friend. Too many people get a pass. Give us the top line numbers. How many people are abused on an annual basis . Guest for Domestic Violence, the rates are pretty high for certain groups. Hundreds of thousands of people a year. You have direct victims and vicarious victims. The mother, the children, the parents. All are suffering some way when this relationship has an intimate Partner Violence factor. Host Michael Planty and paulette Sullivan Moore. Thank you both for being on the program. We are going live over to the news heum. A Memorial Service for the late james brady. Master of ceremonies will be joe. Ockhart Vice President biden will be speaking. Several wellknown journalists as well. 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