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FOXNEWSW On The Record With Greta Van Susteren October 8, 2014 23:00:00

Didnt talk about right here on the panel. You may want to log on and check it out if you havent been there before. Make it good night. Right now two big developing stories a race against the clock. Ebola survivor dr. Kent brantly rushing to the the rescue with his own blood trying to save another ebola patient. You are about to find out what dr. Brantly is doing, make no mistake about it, ebola is deadly. Just today terrible news out of a dallas hospital liberian man who came into the United States with ebola undetected. Well, he died. That news as our government desperately fights to keep ebola from entering the u. S. And from spreading across the United States. And today, the Homeland Security department ordering new screening measures at five u. S. Airports. All the the latest on ebola in just minutes. First, new fears isis could soon invade turkey the pentagon key syrian town could fall to isis and could fall soon. Stepped up u. S. Led Coalition Air strikes not keeping isis from advancing. Fox News Senior Affairs Correspondent Greg Palkot near the turkey, syria border. Greg . Greta, the battle for can a bane certainly seems to be in its crucial stages right now. We are. There was gigantic glass. Early reports u. S. Air strikes but later others claimed it was an isis suicide car bomb and a very big one. Kurdish defenders of the town. Citing all dangerous the levels of fighting is right now. While the Kurdish Militia had claimed they were pushing isis back, the sounds that we heard from the center of the city told another story, small arms, machine gun fire all day. Along with an eerie quiet on the eastern side of the town. Maybe a sign that isis has made more inroads there. Does confirmed air strikes around kobani that is outside of the city. Inside the city is where the fight is according to one kurdish fighter he is appreciative of those air strikes. He wished they had come earlier. Turkish tanks were there as they have been for the past couple of days right next to our position while some of them were pointing towards coban any, others were pointing away into turkey. A sign of how much this country does not want to get involved with the fight. A sign of the trouble here. Several cities clashing with the turkish government here. They wanted to do more with cobane, 19 people have died so far in the last 24 hours. Despite bombing near kobani, the Syrian Border town is still expected to fall to isis. So are air strikes enough . Senator Lindsey Graham joins us. Good evening, sir. Good evening. We are doing air strikes against isis. Kobani is about to fall. Whats your assessment of these air strikes . Well with, the question americans what does it matter to us . I think it matters a lot. It shows that the air strikes are not containing or degrading isis in any significant way. If that town falls, thousands will be slaughtered that breaks ones heart. Humanitarian disaster. The stronger they get over there, the more endangered we are there president president obamas strategy of halfmeasures is making it much more likely that america will be hit by another terror attack. If they take kobani, they will be able to recruit more and more jihadists from europe and other places. They can come back here and strike us at home. His strategy of air attacks is not working. His insist not to have boots on the ground is a death blow to our efforts to destroy isil and, quite frankly, puts our country very much at risk. All right. You should call it strategy, half measures. We will talk about it later about what president jimmy carter said. But jimmy carter has even been critical of the president saying that the president obama is slow to act is one of the reasons isis is to so big and so powerful. I dont know when you hit bottom in foreign policy, but when you are being criticized by jimmy carter, you are pretty damn close. I just cant believe that the president is not reacting more forcefully to it a threat to our homeland. Not only is this destroying syria and putting everything we fought for in iraq in jeopardy, isils safe haven in syria and iraq are going to eventually be used to attack us here at home. The sooner we engage these guys and engage them the safer we will be at home. This risky strategy of half measures is going to catch up with us and puts the homeland at risk. Without a ground component, greta, youre never going to destroy isil and the longer this takes and the longer it is drug out, the more at risk to our homeland. What about our ally, turkey, are they doing enough . Is their border, they have been slow to act and they are the ones buying the oil from the black market from isis. Right. Well, im very disappointed in turkey but heres the problem. Syria is a disaster. Complete disaster. Here is what turkey understands. If assad stays in power, then syria will continue to it be a failed state. There is no way the Syrian People will accept syria where assaad controls part of it turkey is reluctant to get involved with the isil problem until they see a clear commitment from us to give the syrians a fresh start by removing assad. Well, for starters though, senators, they can stop buying the cheap oil from isis which is financing they are in part nationals,. Sure. I dont know if the turkish government is buying it. But they have allowed go into syria. Turkey is a symptom of a greater problem. Following barack obama because they are not sure if he is committed to success and to winning. Syria, excuse me, turk from is a nato nation. They have tanks within just a couple miles of this town. It is stunning that they wont go in to help the people on the other side of the border. But i think the root cause of this be problem is that our allies are not sure about america and our enemies are no longer afraid of america. And that is a formula for disaster. Senator, i just want to say i probably am using the term turkey loosely. I dont necessarily mean the government. Im talking about people, doing a lot to stop it. Sure, they could do more. They could do more. Senator, thank you, sir. Thank you. And the fbi now says the masked terrorist is in an isis propaganda video he is believed to be an american and probably from the midwest. And fbi still pleading for your help to identify him. Fox news chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge joins us with the latest. Catherine are, the midwest . Thats right, greta. Based on our reporting we understand the fbi did a recognition analysis on the video. As well as biometric. Asking for public assistance. What they will say is that they dont feel that their leads have run flew dead end, its clear two weeks ago the fbi director told us this is one of the highest priorities and they still dont have that 1 purex confirmation that they really want, greta. Its obvious very problematic, what are we doing . What does the fbi want . The fbi, based on this web site, they want tips, specifically they are asking for people to upload photos or documents and the former fbi agent said to me that when the bureau puts up a tip line, it its a sign that whatever leads they were pursuing they have kind of run into some road blocks and they want information from the public. Its much easier in this sort of lawyer culture that exist is now to get photos and documents from the public rather than try to negotiate some kind of access to a mosque or a community center, greta. Catherine, thank you. Youre welcome. And its not just president obamas former secretary of state Hillary Clinton where president obamas first secretary of defense robert gates or his more recent secretary of defense leon panetta blasting the president s foreign policy. Now another democrat, former president jimmy carter slamming president obama. President carter saying the Obama Administration took too long to take action against isis let the Islamic State build up capability of money and weapons while it was still in syria. Former u. N. Ambassador john bolton joins us. Ambassador, nice to see you. I cant think of a more blistering attack from a former president from a current president. Its very stunning. Not only is the analysis consistent with the critiques we have heard of the fecklessness of obamas strategy but the fact that one former president and a democrat to boot would say it about an incumbent president is really stunning. Carters criticism of obama on isis is really stronger than anything either of the president bushes have said. They, i think are adhering to the tradition that president s really dont comment on it so when you have carter out there, that strongly, i think what it has to say obamas acolytes and the press and the alter boys who carry water for him in congress, the emperor has no clothes here to mix my medicine metaphors. This thing has been a complete sham and as time goes on a complete failure. We can cite jimmy carter. Its like i dont read this just as simply criticism like bad ideas or that was strategically wrong. He scarily lays the blame of the explosive growth of isis on the current president. I mean he says if he hadnt done, this none of this would have happened. Yeah. I think the attack on the president s competence is, perhaps, most note worthy. And its a, again, coming from a former president , you can say at least jimmy carter had had some experience with with the military given his background that obama clearly does not. So i think this is a very very Stunning Development and its one, you know, if the president would stop going to fundraisers, maybe he would wake up and see that there is a problem here. I dont understand how the white house can continue to roll along doing political events when we see its entire policy in the region coming to a halted. And to believe jimmy carter just for a minute although its hard to do so and dom on panetta watching him on oreilly last night watching his facial expreparations as he tried to give what he believed honest answers to the questions and not do too much political damage to obama tells you everything you need to know about just how bad it is inside the administration for legitimate spokes people for national security. You know, i was going to ask you why president carter do that now . Was he just being a little vin particularrive or unhappy . Or sometimes he can be a little bit rough around the edges. But the problem is its not just jimmy carter. Its heather pick has criticized the president. Leon panetta, gates, i mean, thats the problem. Its all these democrats and you are supposed to rely on your cabinet. I your cabinet are your closest con if confidantes. I think it really is incumbent on people who know whats been happening in an administration when they become private citizens again. Not it reveal classified information certainly but i think there is almost a duty to it tell the American People really whats going on. There is no code of silence in politics that requires people not to speak out. And i think gates and panetta and Hillary Clinton for that matter should be commended for writing their memoirs. One quick question. Thing thats notable is the absence of anyone speaking up in favor of president obamas policy. That has been deafening. The silence is devining. Im sure we will hear from the president soon and im sure he will give the best defense that anybody can possibly give of a failure. I mean, he could use some allies in the government to support him. I dont think he has any. I really dont. Namaa very well be. Ambassador, thank you, sir. Thank you. This is a fox news alert. The first ebola patient diagnosed in the u. S. Died today in a dallas hospital. Duncan carried that virus home with him on flight from liberia. The cdc is in contact with dozens of people he came into contact here in the United States. Fox News National correspondent john roberts joining us from Training Facility in alabama. I dont know . Good evening to you, greta. To duncan officials in dallas, texas, said it was a real strategy that he succumbed to the illness and passed away early this morning. They were also quick to remind people this is an isolated case. So far no sign of illness among his closest contacts and they are closely monitoring twice a day everybody that they believe he was in contact with. They also said today that to lessen the chance of contamination from the barrel process his body will burr yell burl process his body will be cremated. There will be enhanced screening procedures put in place at five u. S. Airports. They will start this saturday at jfk and spread on from from newark, chicago ohare, Dulles Airport outside of washington, d. C. And atlanta. People who come in and this is everybody who comes in from the three west african nations hardest hit will be more temperature monitoring as well. They have a lot of questions put to them. Some of them tough about where they were, what they were doing and who they might have come in contact with. The cdc does believe that the best way to stop people from coming in with ebola is to curb it at its source. They launched a new Training Program in alabama to train up hundreds of healthcare workers to send into the hot zone, 36 this week in the three day session. What this is all about, really is, to teach these people, though train them how not to become victims themselves. We talked to a lot of these workers here. A lot of the volunteers. Many of them charitable organizations like samaritans purse very convicted about this saying they cant not go to the hot zone to help out. Even though their families might be reluctant, one told me i didnt ask for permission. I just asked for them to support me. Greta . John, thank you. There is news tonight about dr. Kent brantly the first ebola stricken patient brought to the United States and surviving. Dr. Brantly is now paying it forward. He is donating his bad to the photo journalist now fighting for his life in a nebraska hospital. So could the transfusion of dr. Brantlys blood help save the cameramans life . Professor sapphire from the Research Institute joins us. Nice to see you. Thanks for having me. What are the odds of the antibodies in dr. Brantlys blood will help the man in nebraska fight this deadly disease off . Well, it is certainly worth a shot because dr. Brantly is a survivor, his blood, serum does have antiebola antibodies in it. In the absence of anything else, its not a bad strategy to try. When you say its worth a shot i know you havent treated him and looked at it are we talking about 70 , 10 or 90 . What are the odds . We dont know the odds because no one has done a controlled experiment on this. The one or two times people have tried it, there was no control. There were no people that got equivalent medical care that. The man has ebola virus certainly worth a shot and brandly certainly has antibodies against it. Lets go back to the nuts and bolts. How is ebola spread. If i come in contact with a patient or someone in that airport, what do i have to look for. I can tell you the science behind. This so, there are two kinds of viruses in the world. Some kinds of viruses have a hard protein shell like the common cold. Other kind of viruses have a flexible moist membrane, they have to stay wet. Ebola and h. I. V. Have a membrane and have to stay wet. They transmit through fluids to. Contract ebola virus you need to be in contact with the blood, the vomit or othe feces of an infected person. Ebola cannot escape its fundamental biology. It has to remain moist. And so its not going to be wafting on the breezes of the country. Your average american, if they have not been to west africa and they have not been in contact with the blood, vomit or diarrhea with an ebola patient, they would remember if they had, they are not going to contract ebola. How minute is it just a tiny little bit you have to touch . How do you get rid of it . Yeah, good questions. So, the reason for the debate on this is how i mean how else can it transmit . If you put infected monkeys in one cage and uninfected monkeys in another cage somewhere else, they dont get infected it doesnt go through the air. If you house them in the same cage they do get infected because there is that contact. There are devices called nebulizers that could make a find mist that could get a monkey infected there are certain ways in which prolonged contact with very small fluid droplets can effect somebody. Thats an Artificial Laboratory situation. We have never seen this in the world. What this says is that if you are going to involve a device like if you are going to intubate ebola patient you need complete respiratory protection and the hospitals know this. Now, what is an infectious dose . Only a very few copies of the virus could be auto lethal dose. So you do generally want to try to avoid it at all costs. But its hard to say exactly what those numbers are. Professor, once again as always, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. 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