Contain ebola. Phone lines are open. Republicans can call 202 5853881, democrats 202 5853880, and independents, and if youre outside the u. S. Its 202 5853883. You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages on twitter, facebook, or email us at journal at cspan. Org. A good wednesday morning to you. The Washington Post put this question to a thousand adults over the weekend. Here is the response they got to the question, would you support or oppose restricting entry to the United States by people who have been in affected african countries in dealing with ebola . 67 said that they would support the twin percent who said they would oppose that question, that poll also asked questions about screenings at airports in dealing with ebola outbreak, would you support or oppose stricter screenings of people entering the United States who have been in the affected african countries. 91 said they would support to just six percent saying they would oppose. The question of how confident are you in the federal governments ability to respond effectively to an outbreak of ebola virus in the United States . Were talking this morning about the u. S. Travel bans, would you support a new u. S. Travel ban to contain ebola and for more on this topic i want to turn to keith hang, a staff writer for the hill newspaper. Mr. Hang, good morning to you. Good morning. Host several lawmakers calling for new travel restrictions. How would these kind of travel restrictions work . There is a lot of debate about that in congress right now. The Obama Administration and Health Officials internationally and in the u. S. Have said travel ban would be counter productive to relief efforts in africa and would make the situation with ebola worse. You have a lot of lawmaker, republicans and some democrats who are saying that that is the quickest way, more effective way to contain the virus than the increased screening that youre seeing at some of the major airports that have been rolled out this week. What are other countries doing . What are some comparative actions by the countries . Well, there hasnt been a high profile travel ban yet. You had a london just instituted a similar screening at Heathrow Airport that we have here now at dulles and jfk, where theyre checking passengers temperatures that are coming on flights from west africa and having them fill out questionnaires about their travel history. But thus far there hasnt been a major nation that has unsubstituted a complete travel ban. Talk about the history of travel bans in the United States when it comes to infectious diseases. His is something that is usually suggested but its very rare. I cant think of an example off the top of my head. One of the reasons that it hasnt happened yet is the airlines here in washington have been pushing against it. The travel association, called the ban draconian. They said the response is being way blown out of proportion. Host you talked about the screenings that are starting to take place. Are those expected to pick up in the coming days and weeks . Well, right now theyre screening at five pierts, like i mentioned, and the Obama Administration has said theyre confident that that would capture 94 of the people that are coming into the u. S. From these trouble spots in west africa. One of the thing theyre using to reassure people is that there arent a lot of direct flights from that part of the world, like even the gentleman that became the first domestic person to be diagnosed, first person to be diagnosed domestically, and had a lay overat dulles. You cant really fly directly to laguardia, for instance. But the trouble the administration is having is that they would hope after the announcement was made you have lawmakers saying lets add dallas and houston. And then you had lawmakers from minneapolis, from minnesota saying ad minneapolis st. Paul to the list, and thats far removed from texas. But its sort of reverse not in my back yard everybody wants to have the extra checks now. Host as youve been covering this what do you think could tip the balance in materials of pushing the administration to take a step in doing actual travel restrictions . I think its really touch and go. You have to see how this plays out, if there are more cases they may be forced to they may see lawmakers get more involved. There is definitely a push growing on the hill to have that happen. Host appreciate your time this wednesday morning. Thanks for having me. Host were asking our viewers in this first 45 minutes of the washington journal would you support u. S. Travel bans to help contain ebola . Were talking about this subject. As news breaks this morning about a Second Health care worker in texas who has been tested positive for ebola, Second Health care worker who helped provide care for Thomas Eric Duncan. This according to the cnn story this morning, the worker reported a fever tuesday, and was immediately isolated according to a hospital spokeswoman. The facility will begin monitoring all those who had contact with that unidentified worker. This comes of course after one of the nurses at the hospital has already tested positive. The preliminary ebola test on the second worker was done late tuesday at the state Public Health laboratory in austin and the results were received around midnight last night. Well be talking more in our next segment of the washington journal this morning about protections for nurses and other Health Care Workers as three areeling as they deal with ebola and potential ebola patients. But this morning we want to ask for just the first 45 minutes would you support u. S. Travel bans to help contain ebola . Well start with ray calling in from pennsylvania on our line for republicans. Ray, good morning. Caller, of course, we need a travel ban. Do you believe that if we get 30 or 40 cases of this in one area that theyre going to have a Kidney Machine and the workers are going to be willing to treat this . Can you imagine when the Health Care Workers say im not coming in anymore, im staying home. This could go out of control very quickly. A travel ban is a must. It should have been done when this problem was going on in west africa months ago already. Why would we let and it needs to be isolated where it is, because once it spreads around the world and it gets in our inner cities youre never going to stop it. Host thats ray from pennsylvania. Paul is in South Carolina on our line for independents. Paul, good morning. Caller yeah, good morning. Ray is 100 correct. We need to stop with the political correctness, and keep this disease out of the United States however we can. I know theres people saying that its going to have a negative impact on relief efforts. That can be a one way street. All the relief efforts are going into africa. If people have to come out that are infected, if americans have to be treated, let them come back like the first couple of doctors were on special planes and isolation units, but we have to keep cecile crowns out. I think that eric duncan knew what he was doing by coming to the United States when he did. He knew it was the only chance for him to save his life, that he was ultimately a very selfish individual who is responsible for these two Health Care Workers now infected and possibly people that they came in contact with also. Host one of the people who is saying it could hurt relief efforts is the cdc director, tom frieden. Here is a clip of him monday talking about the issue of potential travel restrictions. On tissue of banning travel, i understand that there are calls to do this. I really try to focus on the bottom line here. The way were going to reduce risk to americans is do the steps of protection i just went through, and stop it at the source in africa. Today cdc has 150 of our top disease detectives throughout the three countries and many of the counties within the three countries helping to turn the outbreak around, working along with the department of defense, with the World Health Organization and with many other governments which are surging in to help stop it at the source. If we do things that unintentionally make it harder to get that response in, get supplies in, that make it harder for those governments to manage, to get everything from Economic Activity to travel going, its going to become much harder to stop the outbreak at the source. If that were to happen, it would spread for more months, and potentially to other countries, and that would increase rather than decrease the risk to americans. Above all, do no harm. And thats why we want to focus on stopping the outbreak at the source. Host on the other side this morning, the Washington TimesEditorial Board talks about this issue of potential travel restrictions. The Editorial Board writing its symptomatic of the broken many gracious system that someone from liberia with recent contact with ebola victims was allowed entry into the United States. Common sense would have restricted entry. Were asking our viewers this morning, what you think. You can have the conversation with us on the phone over email, on twitter, on facebook, but well go to the phone. Keith is in fargo, north dakota on our line for republicans. Keith, good morning. Caller im a democrat. I must have called the wrong number. Host thats okay, keith. Go ahead. Caller we need to stop these foreigners over here into our country that i think were all the stuff is coming from. We you there . Host yes, keith, go ahead. Im listening. Caller we need to stop letting them over here that are bringing all kinds of diseases over here, and we we need to until we get it under control we need to not even let our own people out of this country until we get this under control. Its just like aides. And now we got this. Host have you changed any of your travel plans . Are you scared to caller i havent traveled since it was like 2005 or so, i went to germany. Host all right. Thats keith. Steve is in alabama on our line for democrats. Steve, good morning. Caller good morning. My comments are simple. Its funny how everybody whips into a panic like they know what theyre talking about for a disease that has been around for a very long time, that was well written about in a couple of books in the 90s. There should have been an outrage then when they let a bunch of ebola trained mong everies in a rental car. These people are whipped into a panic for no reason whatsoever right now. Host thats steve in alabama. You might be interested in a column by frank burnie today in the New York Times. The headline, scarier than ebola. That column in todays New York Times. Were asking about travel bans this morning. Would you support u. S. Travel bans to help contain ebola . A few comments from twitter already this morning. The government has a duty to ensure National Health whenever a threat exists by whatever means necessary. And janet writes, janet fuller, yes i would support a travel ban now instead of more drastic measures later. Well keep looking for the tweets and facebook comments. Well go to joe and in michigan on our line for independents. Good morning. Caller good morning. Yes, i would support a travel ban, but also what im concerned about is the ones that are coming over the southern border, these people who are coming into our country, they should be banned. There is tuberculosis. What is our Health System dealing with where these people have been shipped to . We dont hear a boo about that. Can you tell me that everyone of those people that came in were vaccinated before they entered United States . Im sorry, but i think were we have a health crisis, but i think it is also dealing with these illegal immigrants. Host jo joe and you would yu agree with plaques collins on the Facebook Page who writes would it matter . They just fly to mexico, lock the front door, leave the back door wide open, that will work. Caller well, what did i just say . Nobody should come in to america unless they do it the proper way. Yeah, isnt that great that were wonderful . Everybody wants to come to america, but they dont want to act like americans. Host and sharon on our Facebook Page writes in travel ban very common for this sort of thing, what is wrong with this administration . Its an upside down world with these people. And above that, i prefer having a Surgeon General and fully funded cdc. Stop buying the fear. Those conversations happening on our Facebook Page, on twitter. You can email us, as well. We want to get to your phone calls, about a half hour or so on this question, would you support u. S. Travel bans to help contain ebola. Dean is up next, london, kentucky on our line for republicans. Good morning. Caller good morning. Its obvious the government isnt going to be able to do anything with this. My question is simply this. Why doesnt the take action . Theyre exposing their crews to this disease. Why dont they do something . Why do we always have to depend on government which can barely do anything anyway . Host dean in london, kentucky. Ebola is coming, a travel ban wont stop the outbreaks. He writes, thats from forbes, not bloomberg, as i said earlier that column by j. V. Chamari. Good morning. Caller i wanted to make a comment about everything going on right now. People are not understanding, like did anybody take the time out to find out like how did this get here . Host are you talking about the first patient . Caller no, not the first patient. Not the first patient. The virus itself, how did it get to africa itself . Host you want more research on the evolution of ebola in africa . Caller it just didnt appear there by itself. Somebody put it there. Host all right. Thats mark in atlanta, georgia. Well go to david in virginia on our line for republicans. David, good morning. David, you with us . Turn your tv down. All right, well come back to david and go to theodore calling in from arkansas on our line for democrats. Theodore, good morning. Caller yes, im calling because it should be first of all its too late to keep it from coming to the United States but second its important that people live in red states understand this. They did not accept obamacare, their leadership did not accept obamacare. Now is the time we can have elections to stand up and say we need health care ourselves. You have a congress, we dont have it. Thank you, sir, and have a great day and thank you for receiving my call. Host talking about some of the political issues. This ebola travel ban starting to play in some races ahead of the 2014 election. Here is a story from the Washington Times this morning, ins by noting that the question of travel bans is royaling political campaigns. The time to consider stopping flights coming in from west africa has passed said ed gillespie. Its time to impose a flight ban which is exactly what this administration should do. Thats in todays Washington Times. A few tweets about this topic from members of congress, specifically several members who have called for travel bans. Peter king of new york, republican, the president should suspend travel to the United States from west africa and visas to grints of west african nations until we get a clear analysis of ebola transmission. This tweet from pat roberts, i am calling for complete and immediate travel ban from the infected west african nations. And this one from walter jones, republican North Carolina, im calling for travel ban on noncitizens coming into the u. S. From ebola stricken countries. Chick it out on a link to his web site about it. Those are a few of members of congress who have called for the washington journal in our first 45 minutes. Richard on our line for republicans, good morning. Caller good morning. Are you there . Host yeah, go ahead. Caller i believe all the flights should be banned, also, because this man all flights banned out of africa i dont think its going to solve anything. But down to our southern border you have m city, which is kind of about 20 Million People in that vicinity. What if it were to brick out in mexico city or Something Like that . We need to stop it. We need to treat it like its a bioterrorism. We need to take it very seriously. Back in the early 1900s there was a virus, the spanish virus that killed 100 Million People worldwide. So i think we really need to contain it and stop all travel, and close major highways over there, too. And its like go to the un, have leaders, we should go to the un and have there should be a top priority for the whole world to be involved. Thank you very much. Host speak of the United Nations, at a un meeting yesterday World Health Organization officials reported that new cases of ebola in africa could reach 10,000 a week by december. Thats ten times the current rate. The head of the new Ebola Emergency Response Mission told the Security Council of the United Nation thats none of the three most heavily affected countries, liberia, sierra leone and guinea, is adequately prepared. Only 4,300 treatment beds will be available by december 1, according to current projections, and even those would not have adequate number of staff members. The acceleration of new cases if not c