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FBC Lou Dobbs Tonight October 11, 2014

Fundraisers behind closed doors with little or no media access. Just this week, president obama attending six fundraisers, 16 since the beginning of september. Now many believe mr. Obama to be the alltime leader in president ial fundraisers, but thats not the case. Hes in second place. President clinton, the record holder, attending 638 fundraisers in his two terms in office. The president , president obama, is in a comfortable second place, however, still behind clinton by 145 fundraisers. Still time to catch up. Even though unpopular, mr. Obama can still raise a lot of money. Republican strategist karl rove told us here wednesday that democratic incumbents have long been preparing for the obama drag on their poll numbers, and with that, the fundraising advantage that comes with incumbency, most of the senate races would already be over with republicans way out in front. If these were open races, these seats would be settled and settled today. But its hard to beat an incumbent, and every one of these incumbents saw a tough Election Year coming and muscled up with money and have been on the attack since day one. Lou all here tonight, we are learning that ebola patient zero, thomas eric duncan, not only told hospital screeners he had traveled to west africa recently, but also registered a 103degree temperature before they released him back into the public. And u. S. Airports set to launch new screening procedures in only five airports across the country tomorrow. Beginning tomorrow, enhanced screening measures will be activated at jfk airport and soon after at dulles, atlanta, newark. The airports receive 94 of travelers from liberia, sierra leone and guinea. Lou missing from the list, a lot of airports and a lot of big metropolitan areas. Dallasft. Worth prominent among those missing where duncan landed in texas and the site of todays congressional field hearing on the ebola threat response. And it was another bad day for investors wrapping up a bad week on wall street. The triple digit selloff today, the third for the Dow Jones Industrial average over the past four days. The stock market losing 3 on the week. We begin tonight on the president ial campaign trail, rather, the Congressional Campaign trail, and the democrats latest efforts to bring a little star power to those races, but it looks like the first lady may be as dependent on a teleprompter as her husband. I am beyond thrilled to be here today, to support your next senator from iowa, our friend bruce bailey. Stand up for your families in washington. Then you need to elect bruce bailey. Lou bruce brailey, probably not the performance the brailey campaign had been hoping for. Better than appearing alongside a president who is toxic at this point. Fox news Political Correspondent carl cameron with the report. Reporter with her husband down in the polls, First Lady Michelle Obama hit the trail trying to energize downbeat democrats and candidates. If we keep on stepping up and bringing others along with us, i know that we can keep on making that change we believe in. Reporter democrats hope the first lady makes a better surrogate than embattled husband who last week made his party wince by echoing that the midterms are about him and his midterm agenda. Make no mistake the policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them. Reporter David Axelrod called that line a mistake given how unpopular the president and his policies are in the polls. Few noticed it but mrs. Obama doubled down on her husbands declaration. Make no mistake about it, baracks last campaign wasnt in 2012, it is this year in 2014. Reporter that is the last thing Allison Grimes wanted to hear as she runs alongside mitch mcconnell, grimes sounded like a politician with something to hide. Did you vote for president obama 2008, 2012 . This isnt about the president , i respect the sanctity of the ballot box. Reporter in New Hampshire Senate Democrat Jeanne Shaheen tap danced, she all but told them to stay away. The president is dealing with a lot of crises in the world and its important for him to address whats happening with isis, to continue to address the ebola scare and so i expect him to be in washington. Reporter some democrats have gone further. Democrat mark begich of alaska is advertising to pay for his differences with the president. Voted against obamas trillion dollar tax increase rl begich told the president not to come to alaska months ago, and pundits and strategists on both sides of the aisle routinely called his the smartest Democratic Campaign of the cycle. Lou . Lou carl cameron, thank you very much. Turning to ebola in america, the government response to the deadly disease poses to americans has been slow and uninspiring. The response to the one confirmed case in this country marked by mistakes and misinformation. Fox news correspondent john roberts has our report. Reporter ebola fierce have america on a hair trigger, this as a man on a u. S. Airways flight sneezed and joked he had ebola. In Oklahoma City a sick man who. Reporter so far almost remarkably none of duncans 48 contacts have fallen ill. A sheriffs deputy with no protective gear was released from the hospital last night. His illness found not to be ebola. In macedonia, a hotel has been sealed off after a british visitor mysteriously died hours after arriving. And in spain, seven people including a hairdresser are in isolation, they were in contact with nurse Teresa Romero desperately ill after she caught ebola from a patient being treated in madrid. In west africa, the World Health Organization reported the death toll has passed 4,000. The cdc believes the actual number is far higher. Dr. Kent brantly, the First American patient with ebola told an audience at Abilene Christian university that the virus is devastating entire nations. Youve seen the news reports, and i assure you, the reality on the ground in west africa is worse than the worst report youve seen. Reporter customs and Border Protection begins enhanced screening protocols for travelers from west Africa Tomorrow at jfk airport in new york. Newark, chicago ohare dulles and atlanta airports follow soon after that. John roberts, fox news. Lou and tonight an update on pharmaceutical companies efforts to fight ebola. Four drugs showing the most potential. Zmapp credited with helping dr. Kent brantly and Nancy Writebol successfully cover. Maker is about to ramp up production of the drug which wont be available until next year at the earliest. A drug has been successful in Laboratory Tests known as cmx 1. It was given to thomas eric duncan, the Liberian National who died wednesday and american journalist ashoko mukpo who is battling ebola and has improved slightly. Drugmaker tekmira has a drug called pkm ebola used to treat dr. Rick sacra who recovered, but its impossible to know what role the drug played in his recovery. And a Clinical Trial of promising ebola vaccine under way in the west african country of magli. The new reports tonight that the white house is considering unilaterally closing down Guantanamo Bay according to the wall street journal, which says president obama wants to issue an executive action to close the prison, if no agreement can be made with congress. The white house denies the report. House Speaker John Boehner calls it another example what will be this administrations legacy of mr. Daniels. Mr. Daniels. Look at this. Whats this . Clicks are off the charts. Yeah. Yoshi, were back. 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And president obama tonight once again attending fundraisers while the country is facing crises from almost every quarter it seems. In syria, officials are warning that kobani is in danger of being massacred by the islamic state. Mostly of the 250,000 people have fled. The United Nations is 700 people are trapped in the center. 10,000 gathered at the border with turkey. France and turkey are pushing for a buffer zone and a nofly zone. Neither country has intervened yet. Israeli experts warning that Irans Nuclear Weapons Program is very much alive and proof the satellite images of damage to an Iranian Nuclear complex which has reportedly been rocked by a massive blast last sunday. Nuclear talks with world powers and iran reportedly going absolutely nowhere. But will be extended by the administration beyond the november deadline. And tonight, a deepening mystery in north korea. Leader kim jongun has not been seen in public now for more than a month, there is speculation about his health, whether he remains in power, after kim failed to show up at an event commemorating the 69th anniversary of the founding of the ruling workers party. A late friday document dump from the clinton president ial library revealing new material about some of the clinton administrations biggest scandals. Monica lewinsky and whitewater among them. Fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen has our report. James . Reporter lou, good evening. Clinton library has been making the document releases on friday stretching back to february. There were 33,000 documents that have been withheld from Public Access for longer than what the law provided. Todays release was about 10,000 pages, 230 pages in a folder named Monica Lewinsky segment 1. However, about what you found in here were mostly talking point drafts, memos and a few snide emails from legendary political fixer sidney blumenthal. On the whitewater controversy, there was a seven page handwritten notes in which then first Lady Hillary Clinton offered scathing comments about the white house staff and the defense mounted on behalf of the clintons in connection with whitewater. She said weve been so incompetent why, is it we dont get it done . She complained about George Stephanopoulos skipping critical briefings and saying make george go to the briefings. By and large, we skim the surface here, one last point on the Health Care Reform effort that Hillary Clinton pled and went down to failure in 1994, she took note of books coming out by bob woodward and Elizabeth Drew and demanded to know who was leaking damaging reports about the Health Care Reform and told by her aide that the culprit was then hhs secretary Donna Shalala who continued to serve in the post for the entire clinton presidency, lou. Lou more documents still withheld . Any how many more you think weve got to go here . At least several thousand. The Monica Lewinsky file had several dozen if not hundreds of emails. I dont mean to tantalize you in a cruel way, lou, there was one email from march of 1999 written by a man named edward f. Hughes and the title of this email that is still secret was why is lou dobbs dot, dot, dot, we dont know what the rest was said . I can bet it was colorful. And complimentary. Lou without question. James so much. Fascinating. And the timing of this, im sure, is purely coincidental to any ambitions that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton might have. James rosen. Michael mccaul calling for additional ebola screenings at two texas airports, during a field hearing that took place at the dallasft. Worth international airport. Newarks jfk set to begin screening passengers beginning tomorrow. These additional screening measures expanding to four other airports next week. Dulles, newark, ohare and atlanta. And my first guest tonight says the obama administrations plan has too many holes and needs to be expanded. Im joined by congressman blake farrenthal. Good to have you with us. Something pitifully askew when you have a hearing at the dallasft. Worth airport which is where patient zero arrived ultimately from liberia and then died. How could they leave that airport out of it. Well, they say that 95 of the folks come through the five airports. But i think, with ebola, you need to get 100 of the folks. Whether its expanding the program to more airports or only funneling people from the west african countries who have ebola through the airports. Either one works. There are people thinking we need to do a complete travel ban there like theyve done in europe. Lou screening in this instance means asking a few questions and taking a reading, a thermal reading on the temperature of the passenger, which many claim is absolutely unworkable and unreliable. Whats the reality . The technology is there to take everybodys temperature but theres a 21 day incubation period with ebola. If youre not symptomatic when you get off the airplane, youre not contagious, but when you become symptomatic, you are contagious, and were not going to catch those, certainly if theyre dishonest in the interview. Lou yeah, the honor system doesnt seem to be particularly wise. When your lifes in jeopardy, up to the get to the United States, where weve got the best health care and you have the best chances of surviving. You cant blame somebody for thamp its human nature. Lou i wouldnt blame anyone. What i do, however, insist that someone take responsibility for it here. We would start with the president and move to congress and the senate to make certain that and its odd, i dont know about you, i havent heard a lot of officeholders talk about their first responsibility is to the health and welfare of the american citizenry. Its a peculiar omission on the part of health officials, elected officials. Well, one of the thing i took away from the hear is that different agencies were pointing fingers at different agencies. There is no one in charge, no one where the buck stops. Under president bush, there was somebody in charge of biothreats in the white house that was ultimately in charge. Now i guess it directly falls under the department of health and human services, but you saw the cdc pointing fingers at state department, you saw customs and Border Patrol pointing fingers. Nobody ultimately responsible, and what scares me is weve got a bureaucratic mess where nobody knows whos in charge, and people are going to die. Lou well, people are going to die, and it would be needlessly because it seems a reasonable expectation on the part of the American People that the government secure their borders, secure ports of entry and screen those who come into the country or absolutely ban them from the country if they are symptomatic or reason to believe that they are ill . Absolutely. Youve got the folks coming in from west africa. You screen them when they get here, and you have the option to follow up and screen them every couple of days after. To me, thats prudent, if youre not going to shut down travel to and from those countries, lets at least make the effort to screen them. There are about 150 a day that come in. Lou the last number i saw on the amount cargo and freight coming into the country thats being screened by customs and Border Patrol, the number was 5 of the total. That is 95 of the material coming into this country from overseas is not screened by our folks in this country as it enters the country. Now we find out, not only is the southern border porous and unsecured, but really, as you describe it, the federal government doesnt know what its doing. Im afraid thats true, lou. Or its not willing to commit the political and Financial Resources to do it. But the key is theres got to be somebody in charge, and i walked away from the hearing going whos in charge . Lou yeah, well that question is asked about a host of issues in all quarters of the federal government. The trust in the federal government is lower than its ever been based on all the scandals from the obama administration, and when we need to trust the government to stop a panic, its not there. Theres no trust. Thats bad. Lou you know, theres that word panic, and ive heard a few people use the word. I have seen no sign whatsoever in this country of panic. There is concern, theres even some rational fear given what this government does on day in and day out, missions for which its responsible, personally i understand it, ive seen no sign of panic, signs of disgust at the incompetence and the lack of integrity at our national leadership. The cdc is worried about that, but you look at how we handled it in texas. Weve got all the people, the gentleman associated under observation, well know the 21day incubation period is up in nine days. Well know how bad it is in the next two weeks. Hope for all the best and prepare for the worst. That should be the motto of everyone involved. Congressman, good to talk with you

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