Right now Thomas Eric Duncan is fighting for his life at a dallas hospital. He is of course the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in america. And since this news first broke on wednesday fear has spread. Media coverage has gone round the clock, twitter on fire. Look at this tweet from donald trump suggesting that the United States should simply bar flights from the hot zone west africa. The truth is there are some Real Security concerns at airports as well as some degree of uncertainty about what we thought we knew about ebola. But friday afternoon the white house said a ban on travel from west africa could impede response to the Ebola Outbreak. So here are two questions that i want to ask. First, is some of the fear unwarranted . And second, how do we prevent the ebola virus from coming into the country again . Joining me two experts, Gavin Mcgregor skinner, the manager for the Nonprofit Organization which teaches people how to handle dangerous diseases around the world. And a m
Good tuesday evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. We begin with major news roiling the Democratic Caucus. And the House Speaker nancy pelosi facing arguably her biggest problem yet. Shes battling growing calls for impeachment as the president continues to ramp up his stonewalling of House Democratic probes. And moments ago, democrats escalated their fight by issuing more subpoenas. This time for don mcgahns chief of staff after mcgahn was directed to not appear at the president s direction, and also a subpoena for hope hicks, the president s former senior adviser. Nadler says these two witnesses are key to his investigation into obstruction of justice, public corruption, and abuse of power by President Trump. Three issues you would assume would be part of an impeachment investigation, but right now, the Judiciary Committee does not call it an impeachment probe. The big question now is, what is the democratic leadership going to do . In just a moment, ill be joined by a top member
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