Senate is on a pace. And also, what are the ebola darts . We have outsourced this to the tiny fraction of 1 . More and more, the outsourcing of politics. And what if children talked back to their parents like politicians. Did you eat the cookies . I am deeply disturbed by that question. Joining me is niamalika henderson, carolyn ryan, dan balz and luke russert. Im chuck todd and this is meet the press. Just nine days to go until the elections, and we have results from six states which will tell us about which way the wind is blowing and who might control the senate, and as for me, im on the road meeting the voters on the road trip and spending the week in the trip west and cover iing three state out there, we dropped in on the unpredictable race in kansas and neck and neck race in iowa and also the battle in wisconsin that i feel like it has been going on continuously for four years, but before we get to the polls and the races, two big races caused major concern for many and also, the homegrown spark of terror in ottawa. And of course, there is the doctor who contracted ebola when he returned from west africa where he was treating ebola patients. So lets start with ebola. Reporter this week, ebola came to new york city when craig spencer, the new york city doctor who had been treating patients with Doctors Without Borders in guinea. The situation in west africa is dire though with the World Health Organization announcing that the number of ebola cases has now passed 10,000. But there was encouraging news with nina pham becoming the latest american to recover from the disease and receiving a hug from the president. Many are calling the affected travel ban for the country, and now, many politicians are calling for a quarantine for those returning from the affected countries who have had direct contact with the patients. And those quarantines have been been criticized by people such as Casey Hitchcock who was held for several hours before testing negative for the virus. She said it is frightening and said others will be deterred from helping with the treatment in west africa. Im joined by sophie dellenaise with Doctors Without Borders. Start with the cases in illinois, nng nj and florida, and are you already finding that you have doctors the and other Health Care Workers backing out of volunteer trips to the affect ed areas . Well, you know, frankly speaking, we are frankly confused about the order, because we have been, we have been putting in place over the past few months protocols that are based on well known medical science and accepted and those protocols ha protocols have been strictly followed by our staff. They consist of selfmonitoring, and very strict selfmonitoring, and we ask our volunteers coming back from west africa to monitor their temperature twice a day during 21 days, continue the monitoring of symptoms and also to report symptoms as soon as they realize that they are different. This is the protocol that our colleague craig strictly followed this week. You believe that dr. Spencer did not put any new yorkers in harms way . Well, what we know from medical science is that a person who does not present in some way is not likely to transmit the disease. Even though the disease can only be transmitted through the exchange of body fluids, so it is actually impossible that a person living for example in the same person of an infected person who is not presenting, themselves, could be infected with ebola. Any new protocol to add to simply reassure the american publ public . Well, we are working on strengthening the monitoring, of course, of our field workers, but we also very confused about what are going to be the recommendations by the states. We are strictly following the guidelines of the Public Health institutions in the u. S. And working at increasing of strengthening ours. What we are most concerned about is the Health Condition of the colleague. We are very sensitive, too, and understanding of the anxiety that ebola triggers, but more importantly, we are very much considered about the situation in west africa where the situation is very much out of control. Quarantine measures and corrective measures against a worker could give us a superfluous measure of security while the most important measure is to tackle the virus at the source. Thank you, doctor, for your time this morning. Thank you, chuck. Samantha powers, ambassador to the united nations, is traveling to the affected area, and we asked her yesterday if treating passengers with ebola is necessary . We all value their help, and we need to encourage many more who are going, and we need to treat them when they come back to treat them as heroes and not any other way. And joining us is dr. Anthony fauci who is with the n. I. H. Who successfully treated nina pham. And now, we have quarantines in new york, and illinois and new jersey and three airports who do receive passengers from the three affected countries doing mandatory quarantines, and good idea . Well, the primary goal has to be to protect the American People, but there are ways to do that, that may not have to go that far. So governor christy and cuomo going too far . Well, i dont want to criticize the decision made, but we have to be careful that there are unintended consequences, and the best way to stop this epidemic is to help the people in west africa and we do that by helping people from not only the usa but in other places, and we have to treat the people with respect and make sure that they are really heroes, and the idea that we are being draconian and there are other ways to protect, and monitoring and direct monitoring and active monitor i ing and we dont necessarily have to do that. And the governors of virginia and georgia, where Atlanta Hartsfield and where they are going to be feeling pressured to do the same as new york and new jersey, what would you tell them . Well, go with the science. And the science says . The science says that the people who are not sick, and if you do not come into contact with bodily fluid and if somebody comes back from wherever, liberia, and they are well and they are no danger for anybody. Well, dr. Spencerr was well for a week. He was well for a week. But not leave them off, but m monitor them. Monitor them in multiple ways, and you dont have to put them in a confined place. You monitor them and take their temperature and, remember, dr. Spencer was not sick at the time that he was going around. And we keep saying it over and over again, chuck, you have to come into direct contact with the body fluids, and so the risk to the jep ral public is vanishingly small. Apparently the according to governor cuomo, the federal governor is considering something more, something more astringent and what are you considering . Well a that is certain types of monitoring. You have to strats fi the riss. S some people at high risk, some risk, and low, butt not zero risk and no risk. I am talk thing about the the Health Care Workers. All Health Care Workers, and you fashion what you do with them according to the risk. And one of the ways that you can mitigate against this issue is by monitoring. Different types of monitoring, and you dont necessarily have to how do you make sure it is mandatory, because it is voluntary, and thank goodness that dr. Spencer was doing it. There is ways to ratchet it up. You take the temperature and if anything is wrong, you report it. There is active where you report it to someone and then there is direct active where someone come comes in to take the temperature, and that is all short of quarantine. Dr. Anthony fou chishgs thank you for coming back on the program. Thank you, chuck. Thank you, sir. And now we want to turn to the issue of lone homegrown terror. Officials say that a lone wolf is more difficult to stop than a coordinated 9 11style attack. We have seen examples of it such as in monday in canada when a man hits a car, and then wednesday a recent convert to islam and on the canadian watch list kills a guard on the Ottawa Parliament hill and ends in a gun fight. Thursday in new york, a selfradicalized muslim attacks four nypd officers with a hatchet. The police call it a terror attack. And then of course, in colorado, four young girls get on a plane to go help isis, and they are returned home from germany. And now joining us are our guests to tackle this in two ways. Michael, let me start with you. Are all of these terrorist attacks, islamic terrorism in the way that you would classify them or mentally deranged people gloming on to the ideology seeming to make their ideology more relevant . I am not sure there is a lot of difference in the two. They are substate actors and people doing it in the name of al qaeda or potentially isis, but in the cases of terrorists in the past, these individuals are ones who have had a crisis in the life, and they are mentally ill, and attach to an ideology, and in some cases, that is driven to them, and in some cases, it is a terrorist attack. And look, conspiracies, and these guys are good at breaking up, because once a person talks to somebody, you have got them. It is what we have have built up over ten years and it is great that you have just talked to dr. Anthony fauci, because it is looking at risk in different areas. And the highend, we are good at it, but the selfmotivated lone wolves, it is much, much harder, and we dont have the resources to cover all of it. We have to mitigate it the best we can, but we cant overreact. It is in the scheme of risks of society, it is not a life and death matter for the entire nation. Arselan, what is the role of the Muslim American nation here, because it is some role of the leadership of the islamic communities to identify some of the people who are joining, converting, but not for the right reasons . Well, chuck, it is important to keep in mind when you are ub tag about isis, it is not the xmentor transformers here, and it is not wolverines or optimus primes, but it is loner idiots in the whitey tighties playing call of duty 4 who are disenfranchised are from the rest of the society. If you look at the shooter from ottawa, he was thrown out of a mosque similar to the Boston Marathon bombers who were once thrown out of a boston mosque. So the Canadian Authority has done a remarkable job, and i agree with michael what we will see is a lot of the selfproclaimed terrorist, and the new jihadi cool, and not part of a centralized organization to go on youtube, and i bet you that most of isis had never heard of him. I understand, but is it a media issue or the more attention attacks like this get, does it serve perversely to convince more of the mentally l deranged folks like this to say, i will use this ideology to continue my perverse attack. Yes, the more impugned these folks are, it helps to further the agenda of these folks, but the fact is that there are over 7 million muslims who live here peacefully, and 5 of the last 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners, and so sadly when you look at the narrative mediawise, it is always the negative, extremist narrative and that is what we have to push back against. And michael, the social media the narrative, and it is a helpful tool for you, but now it is a recruitful tool in some form or another, and how do you deal with it . This is the difference of isis, and previous groups. Al qaeda was not. Right. Isis is not as much, but they are going after the jihadi cool. And so what they are not as good at in the government, but we have to monitor and the partnerships of the state and the local relationships have to change than we have in the last ten years with the Muslim Community and the government. Well, it is all about building trust, and the surveillance and whether it is the fbi or the other agencies in the american muslim communities. And there is a little distrust . There is a lot of distrust. And again, to build the trust, and let the people know that Community Policing is sacrosanct part of law enforcement, and the Muslim Community is part of the solution and not the problem. And do we have enough muslim agents . No, we dont have enough agents who understand muslim law, and enough to understand 15 to 29yearolds. They are disengaged to vote, nda they are the group likely to be voting, and it has to be more than nancy reagan just say no to drug drugs. Thank you both so much. You gave us a lot to think about. And the panel is here sh, niamalika henderson, carolyn ryan, dan balz and luke russert. Dan balz, you and i have been on the road and how much did you find the ebola threat coming up . Well, these are back of the mind issues, and they are not playing significantly in the races, and yet, it is adding to the unease out, there and yet, it add s s to the the question why are things working and not working and is my family safe . That is how it fits into the larger narrative of the campaign. And when it comes to the ebola quarantines, carolyn, when you saw the governors of florida and illinois both in tight races, they see what Christine Cuomo did, and they say see what christie and cuomo did, and they say, oh, no, we cant be outebolaed. Right. You saw him come out with mayor de blasio and be quite confident of what is going on in new york, and then hastily, it was governor christie saying, not enough. So it generates more anxiety and it creates more and more space and a patchwork of different protocols, and it is confusing to the public and certainly Health Care Workers. And nia, politics is obviously impacting the way that the guys are acting, and you cant help but wonder if they are going to be acting this way if the election were not under way. Right. And particularly with a certain segment of the voters and thinking women, this is playing quite a bit. There was a focus group down in charlotte, North Carolina, and down in new orleans, the walmart moms, and they are very worried about ebola, and much more so than isis, and the idea that ebola is here, and isis is over there, and certainly, i think that these folks who are thinking about politics now, and thinking about politics in 2016, a move to swiftly allay the fears and president obama is criticized for not acting quickly enough. And they are saying, hey, look at a us. And, so, luke, it is with what dan and i saw, they are engaged in the what the issues are, but you look at the democrats, and it is going to delay the chance for the democrats to make the localized Closing Argument that they want to make, while the republicans who are trying to make a national argument, they can fit it in. And i would argue that it ties the argument to president obama more directly, and one thing that we have seen through the midterms and really the strategy of the Congressional Republicans is to create a culture of incompetence around the barack Obama Administration, and system of the polling showing that the incompetence of bush around katrina, and so you are seeing it playing out around the midterms and delays the local can arguments and puts the democrats in the same boat as obama, and it is a tough thing for them to be at. You saw the cdc response a lot better than dallas. And when you see that, it is a lot more competency of the world is going to be a question of this, and it is going to be looking like a silly debate that is happening nine days before the election. We will be back in a moment, and the voters who are hoping to give the incumbents a black eye. Report one from our bus trip, and we have around statements. Well be right bac [ male announcer ] we know theyre out there. 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