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>> there's a quiet calmness here, a lot of concern. people that have felt that they've done all they know to do, they've been supporting of the family. i have full confidence that his treatment was superb when he was admitted to the hospital. and we are very sorry that he has died, and we have great sympathy and empathy for the family. >> you have full confidence despite the fact that he was sent home for two days with antibiotics upon first entering the hospital? >> well, as i've said before, the glitch was he was sent home. but when he was admitted, he's had top line treatment. the best we could offer, the best we had available. sending him home is still a question in my mind and i'm certain in the minds of many. we've not had an opinion yet from any infectious disease specialist indicating whether or not it would have made a difference had he been admitted at that time. >> have you been in contact personally with the family? have dallas officials? i know the county judge went over and actually introduced himself to them. have you been in contact with them? >> i have not been in contact with them personally. i have been in touch with all the elected officials and health providers, but i've not yet been in touch with the family. >> what do you want to see happen here from a policy perspective? it seems like dallas is monitoring the people they need to monitor. obviously this sheriff's deputy has now been admitted. he's being monitored for signs. the administration has announced these checkpoints or new screening protocols in five airports. do you think that things are under control? >> well, in my judgment, i think things are under control. we had a wake-up call. it was not expected. i think we did rise to the occasion. we are trying to get rid of the contaminated materials. i've been in touch with the u.s. department of transportation to make sure that we can expedite the transport of that material to the proper disposal. i'll be attending a hearing on friday morning with the homeland security looking at what else or anything else we need to do in terms of screening people coming into the country. we really have to depend a great deal on the truthfulness of those persons answering those questionnaires. >> congresswoman eddie bernice johnson, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> joining me now bonnie castillo from national nurses united. i've been seeing there has been no small amount of fear mongering over a disease that, frankly, at this point, probably poses far less of a threat to the american populous than just the flu which kills lots of people every flu season. that said, you guys have been raising some alarms, concerns about whether there's adequate training for frontline nurses around the country in these hospitals to follow protocol that would both protect them and the public should ebola patients come into the hospital. >> that's correct. and in fact, early detection, isolation and treatment is critical. and that clearly didn't happen here. and more importantly, what we're seeing from our survey and over 1700 nurses have responded from over 600 hospitals in the united states, and overwhelmingly they're saying that they have not only not received basic policy for admission of ebola patients but more importantly haven't received the interactive training and education that is so critical for the whole health care team to have in order to treat the patients appropriately. >> explaining the breakdown because we've talked to dr. anthony fauci, we talked to someone in a rhode island hospital about these training protocols in the 5700-plus around their hospitals around america we're told the cdc has distributed training mechanisms. are you saying those aren't getting to the nurses? >> that's correct. so while the hospitals may be handing out a guideline and a website for reference, that is no substitute for the actual hands-on interactive education and training of all the health care personnel, anyone who is interfacing with that patient from triage treatment to waste disposal. it's so critical that everybody knows their role. without that, we're going to see lapses and just like we saw in dallas. so that's why registered nurses are sounding the alarm, will continue to sound the alarm if our hospitals are not prepared. >> but is this sort of adding to the panic by doing this? i mean, do you worry about the fact that the perception of the threat of ebola at this point is probably already out of whack with what it actually is. do you worry about adding fuel to that fire? >> well, actually, all registered nurses know and anyone that's involved in disaster planning knows that in the way to avoid panic and chaos is to be prepared, to be and for all of the health care team to be aware of the hospital plans having, as i said, interactive education where they can ask the questions, where they can do the drills, short of that, no one is aware of potentially what they should be doing at any given time. and clearly, dallas was an example of where, you know, this patient was sent home and potentially infected others and where the waste was not properly disposed of, and so that's why we are, you know, continuing to survey but in addition to surveying, we're going to continue to raise it with the public and with our hospitals and with our public officials. >> bonnie castillo, thank you very much. it is important to keep in mind that thomas eric duncan's death is the first and only death from ebola in the u.s. as reported on this show, two people died in this country playing high school football last week. let's keep the scale in perspective. nevertheless, ebola has become a panic du jour especially in the part of the right wing where it dovetails with the hint of conspiracy theory. this is the homepage of the drudge report today. >> the problem dealing with ebola can't be divorced from politics. and more significantly the ebola scare goes to the heart of a simple question -- do you trust the government? >> the centers for disease control is holding a presser as we speak. i'm not covering what the centers for disease control says. i don't trust them. >> in these countries, they do not believe in traditional medical care. so someone could get off a flight and seek treatment from a witch doctor that practices santeria. this is a bigger fear. we are hoping they come to hospitals in the u.s. they might not. >> obama, familial connection with africa. he has an enormous amount of, i think, core ties to the african continent. he's mindful of his own family history there. >> you shake hands with someone with a fever, go hike this, and you're dead meat. >> and the panic appears to be catching on. a medical professor is describing it as hypochondria on a massive scale. bloomberg hand sanitizers sales jumped 20%. all sales of $125 five-pack of protective suits jumped 233% on amazon in just a 24-hour period. that's not all. the chicago-based company lifesecure offers what they call an extended infection protection kit. the low, low price of $149.95. and according to the huffington post they sold over 100 of them last week. joining me is founder and president of lifesecure. business is booming, i take it? >> business is booming since the headlines came to dallas, we've seen the best way to tell you is just in the last few days our sales of infection protection products are up 45 times what they were about a week ago. people are starting to really pay attention to the headlines. >> but you are profiting off of panic, right? the odds that the lifesecure kits sold by your business prevents someone from contracting ebola are so vanishingly thin, they would almost be unquantifiable. >> i think what we're really seeing here is not so much people thinking that they're going to contract ebola and need to protect against it, this is a reminder to them that we do have to be concerned about infectious diseases through pandemic flus and any time there's a infection in other countries it's as close as a flight to them. they are taking what they think is commonsense action. >> is there some kind of psychological pal yachtive that comes with purchasing something localizing your anxiety in a purchase so if you're worried about something, you can buy this thing and feel like, well, i've done something. i've checked that off my to-do list? 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>> yes, yes i have information -- >> tell me what you know. >> i know that at least ten isis fighters have been caught coming across the mexican border in texas. >> how do you know that? >> because i've asked -- because i've asked the border patrol, greta. >> and the border patrol they just let isis members come across the border? >> no, they caught them at the border. therefore we know that isis is coming across the border. >> kudos by the way to greta van susteren for being appropriately skeptical of that series of claims. categorically false and not supported by any credible intelligence or the facts on the ground. >> let's zoom out for a second and use a little common sense. imagine in the current news environment that i.c.e. did nab 10 or a dozen isis fighters on the southern border. you really think it wouldn't get covered on the news? you think fox news wouldn't be running with that 24 hours a day? that it wouldn't be the biggest story in the country? i can assure you it absolutely would be. and certainly the news would not be broken by congressman duncan hunter or something you'd have to read off your uncle's facebook page. i asked for a response. >> right after i heard his comments, we contacted the department of homeland security, and they said unequivocally there's absolutely no evidence to support this claim that anyone from isis or any other terrorist organization for that matter has been apprehended on the border with mexico. >> you represent el paso. el paso has a twin city relationship with ciudad juarez which has been in the news for trafficking and drug cartels and all sorts of things that can make you feel nervous or scared about what might be coming over. so if there's any place that would be the frontlines of being worried about this threat that republicans keep harping on, it would be you. so what's your feeling about it? >> well, you know, i live here on the border, my family's here. i represent 750,000 people who are literally on the border with mexico. and so i think we have the most to be concerned about should there be a real threat. that's why i checked with the department of defense, the department of homeland security, the fbi, any and all people who might have any intelligence to suggest that there is a real threat from terrorists. we also have about $18 billion a year, 20,000 agents on the border patrol whose number one mission is preventing terrorists and weapons of mass destruction from entering this country. and yet, despite any outstanding concerns, el paso remains the safest city in the united states. it has been for the last four years. there have never been and are not now known any terrorist plots successful or unsuccessful connected to the border with mexico. so this is not a new rumor. and unfortunately, it keeps coming up even though it is completely false. and it detracts from what i think the important issue is that we do have threats to this country and those threats come through our airports or they're threats manifest from our own fellow citizens who become radicalized and we've had terrorists who have attempted to cross the canadian border. with you our southern border with mexico is today as safe as it has ever been and it has never been connected to a terrorist plot that i know of or that dhs or anyone else can tell me about in the history of this country. doesn't mean that it couldn't happen down the road, doesn't mean that we shouldn't be vigilant against that possibility, but what it does mean is that this is the safest that this border has ever been and we should focus where we have the greatest risk. >> striking what you said, obviously, al qaeda pulled off a tremendously horrific mass murder terrorist attack in the u.s. it wasn't via the mexican border. there have been a bunch of other plots attempted, some have almost come to fruition, there have been terrorist attacks inside the country from the boston marathon bombing to the ft. hood shooting. in 13 years there's been nothing -- i mean, there's an actual concrete record of what al qaeda affiliates, associates, sympathizers have done and in 13 years none of it's come from the southern border. >> right. and again, it doesn't mean that that might not happen. it doesn't mean that terrorist organizations might not be considering the southern border and that we shouldn't remain vigilant against that. i think we are. we're spending record amounts of money with record presence of law enforcement. i mentioned the border patrol, but we also have ft. bliss in el paso, 31,000 active duty service members here plus a strong contingent of fbi, dea, great local police and sheriff's department. san diego is another very safe city that's very close to tijuana and the mexican border, but the conditions really aren't great for terrorists trying to cross here despite what you might hear from folks in d.c. and elsewhere. beyond the border patrol, beyond this preponderance of federal law enforcement and department of defense assets along the border, you also have in mexico a very militarized situation. >> yes. >> not a lot of people want to talk about it. but ciudad juarez is controlled by the cartel, the mexican police force, the mexican army, federal police all have a presence in northern mexico. none has any interests at all in terrorists exploiting that border. that doesn't begin to talk about the business interests on both sides of the border where we have half a trillion dollars in trade that pass through our ports of entry between mexico and the united states every year. so it's in no one's interests to allow this to happen. doesn't mean we shouldn't guard against it, but there's no proof that's happening right now. >> if you're a would-be isis fighter good luck trying to navigate the mexican military police and the cartel as you attempt to move through. congressman beto o'rourke, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> a town with a championship winning team has canceled football season. man: [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move of all? 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because again there was a republican, former governor mike brown who was poised to run away with the thing, a deeply red state. now looking at a tight race not between the brown and rick wieland. no the former republican senator a guy by the name of larry pressler who is running as an independent. all this is a reminder with less than 30 days until the midterms, anything really can happen. joining me now nate silver, founder of fivethirtyeighth. i'm a big believer in the fundamentals of the model that you have built and others are just about the fact that there are certain things that have a correlation with election outcomes and there's ways you can look at the demographics, but we're seeing a lot of genuinely crazy stuff happening no one could have predicted. the kansas race is just an amazing turn of events. and it seems right now according to the polling very hard to get your arms around what's going on there. >> yeah, there's a lot of uncertainty both nationally and in individual 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(all) awesome! i love logistics. is regular clean clean enough for your family? not when you can have clean coal clean. clean coal harnesses the awesome power of the word "clean." to make it sound like the cleanest clean there is. >> that satirical ad from the coen brothers. one of those opponents is jeff biggers. i've long admired your work on coal. >> thanks for having me, chris. a pleasure. >> so i want to make the case for clean coal. and i want you to -- >> okay. >> i want you to tell me where i'm wrong. first thing i would say is there is a ton of coal in this world. china and india particularly are pulling up tons of coal. 79% of all electricity in china is from coal. you have to imagine that there are internal forces that are going to keep them using coal for a long time. if you can find a way to massively reduce the emissions or even marginally, wouldn't that be a great thing? >> it would be a great thing, but you have to realize there are other ways that are even greater, even better and even more feasible. you know, chris, i'll never forget doing my research about clean coal and i found an ad in 1895 in the "chicago tribune" about smoke-free clean coal. for the past 120 years we've been trotting out this slogan of clean coal really in denial of the incredible impact that the coal industry's had on coal miners and communities that live nearby and now on our own climate. so i think the idea is instead of perpetuating this slogan for another 120 years, why don't we begin to look at other options like germany and many other countries? >> let's stay on the point here. this is a $5.6 billion facility, it's not a slogan. they're trying to capture the carbon and trying to reduce by about 35% the amount or by 65% the amount of carbon that goes into the air. if you can get that thing working and if you can get it to scale and you can get that technology passed around, like why do you think that would be a bad idea regardless of whether the coal industry has been trying to sell us a bill of goods for a hundred years? >> well, because we need to talk about the dirty secrets they never talk about. first dirty secret is in order to operate a ccs plant you have to use 20 to an estimated 40% more energy to capture those carbon emissions. what does that mean? that's 20% to 40% more coal mining production and its incredible fallout in coal mining communities including methane release. the second aspect -- >> wait, i want to make sure i am understanding you. you are actually using energy to run that process and so the net reduction in emissions is actually less than it first appears because you're mining more coal to produce the same unit of btu? >> precisely. and scientists have been all over this. you essentially have to have at least 20% more energy to operate these sort of experimental plants. i think the key word, chris, is to keep in mind that kemper is still a very experimental plant that really hasn't even come online yet. you know, peabody energy, which is the world's largest coal company, released an incredible statement last september saying, hey, ccs is not commercially viable. we're not buying into this. i feel like if the world's largest privately owned coal company doesn't buy into ccs, then why are we investing billions upon billions into somehow capturing this. but that's not the only dirty secret. there's more. >> so peabody said this is not commercially viable, we're out. you guys, you know, spend your federal subsidies and roll the dice on this, but we don't think this can ever be brought to scale in a way that's going to meet market demand? >> right. they're not alone. for example, the international energy agency said, okay, if we go through with this, we're going to need at least 100 plants like kemper to actually have any kind of mitigating effect on climate change. so within six years we need to put online a hundred plant likes ke kemper. do the math. we'll say $6 billion, we're talking over, you know, $600 billion, a half a trillion dollars to chase the fallacy of carbon capture and storage when in fact we could be investing that in much wiser, much better areas of a transition for a cleaner energy agenda. >> so those other things, right, whether they're wind or solar, the knock on them is i hear the same knock from the skeptics on that as i'm hearing from you about clean coal. it is not ready, doesn't work without subsidies. what do you say to that? >> i'm saying look at the experience of germany, look at the experience of australia, look at the experience of so many other countries now including our own. i right now am in iowa where we're doing this interview and iowa now is producing 30% of its energy production, electricity production from wind power. so it's no longer a matter of begging the president to put solar panels on the white house. we're talking about massive breakthroughs every day. chris, also i think part of the dirty secret we have to talk about is the billions of dollars, tens the of billions of dollars now hundreds of billions of dollars over the years we're sub ssidizing the coal industry when we could have spent that in many other ways. >> that's "all in" for for example. rachel maddow starts right now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. when dr. kent brantly got sick in liberia, he had been working in that country trying to stop the ebola epidemic. he'd been treating ebola patients. and ebola, even in places with a lot of cases, even in places that don't have health systems that are in great western shape, even in those places ebola is not always fatal. some ebola patients survive. and when doctor kent brantly got sick himself in liberia, he got two things in terms of treatment. he got access to a very, very rare dose of the scarce and hard to manufacture experimental treatment for ebola which is