Washington journal continues. Host this morning here at the washington journal we are going over to the National Institute of health in the Washington Area to talk to the institute and director about what this National Institute of health does. Research facilities and as well as news that has been made about ebola and what they are doing over there to fight that and bio terror and lab security. Joining us is dr. Francis collins, the director of the nih. I want to begin with breaking news yesterday. Cnn tweeted this out saying if there are no additional interventions, the ebola death toll could rise. This according to the cdc. Dr. Collins, what is the role of nih in fighting ebola . Guest good morning. Yes, nih is deeply engaged in thest to try to turn back a frightening outbreak of ebola in west africa and yesterday, tom freeden did make this projection that if nothing happens, we could look at more than a million cases of ebola over the next few months. A frightening number. But we wa
Happily both of them are covered with the care they got at Emory University hospital grade of course there are now thousands of people in west africa who are infected. Theres no practical way to move them out at the space where they currently are so the big effort now has to be to provide care for them they are in the country and that would apply also to Health Care Providers many of whom sadly have also been infected and hundreds of them have died as a result of ebola. But the big push has to be to get things on the ground in liberia and sierra leone to make it possible to treat those who become infected and reduce the number of new infections. Host waldorf maryland job is watching as their independent caller. Good morning. Caller good morning. What are they using to treat the people that came back and they ran out and also the troops they are sending are they going to get the vaccine before they go . So the vaccine is not ready yet to be delivered to anybody. Right now its just a pha
Of this government. Mr. Ahmadinejad managed to isolate iran diplomatically, and mr. Rouhani is in reality bringing iran out of diplomatic isolation. So, yes, they are succeeding, and the western media is not paying attention. They should. They should, to begin with, start reading what mr. Rouhani has said all over the years. Back in 1999, iran, you know, the Islamic Republic, experienced its most serious political unrest. That was the Tehran University unrest which spread to the entire country. Which politician do you think it was that went to the public and supported the revolutionary guard, and the Police Suppression of the students movement. It was mr. Rouhani. Mr. Rouhani systematically called the students foreign agents. Mr. Rou manny systematically at the extreme National Security council was banning newspapers. And now, people are expecting that mr. Rouhani, of all the people, is going to allow freedom of the press . Why . Why . This is what i believe is the mistake of the weste
That congress agreed to do this and now we didnt leave any residual forces in iraq and its become a mess and now theyre going to say we can go back and do the war because well, it was under the other agreement. But that went away when they pulled everybody out so why wont they do at least a vote on syria and say, yes or no, you should go in or you shouldnt go in . I mean, because we get these residual forces from the other countrieses which is great and i do believe they do need to be we do need to protect our country and stop this big massacres but i find it disingenuous that they talk out of both sides of their mouth and they wont let congress say what their real thoughts are. Host okay. We have to leave it there. This conversation will continue on the washington journal but today were going to switch gears. Were going to go to the National Institute of health coming here. Talking to director Francis Collins and later joined by Patricia Grady of the National Institute for Nursing Res
And thank you all for coming. Well be in touch about another session before too long. Thanks again. Voters go to the polls in sticks weeks for congressional midterm elections. Up next on cspan 3, a look at how National Security issues could influence the november elections. Then, a discussion on the u. S. Tax code. Well also bring you a meeting with Asian American journalists. Later, remarks from house intelligence chair congressman mike rogers. On the next washington journal, a look at the role of the National Institutes of health and medical research, their funding and their vomt in combatting outbreaks like ebola. Well hear from dr. Francis collins, nih director. We continue with patricia grady, and dr. Griffin rogers, director of the National Institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases. And Northwest University is next on our big ten bus tour. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitte