Together. You know whats also inspiring . The 2. 8 million survivor stories out there. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Shes out. Lets play hardball. The axe has fallen. A washington ritual of blame, attack and execution has run its course. Julia pierson, director of the secret service has resigned. It turns out unendurable weeks heading an agency that nobody believes stands up to its historic legacy. It came last night with the Washington Post report that an armed man with a criminal record, an armed man was allowed
to ride in the elevator with the president of the United States. That must have been an unchallengeable challenge to miss pierson. A bigger challenge confront as bigger fish. How is the president going to get people to follow him through a dimly lit tunnel. Endlessly bad news about a spreading terrorism and a spreading disease. It is now part of a trinl of horrors. Ebola which well go deep entire the next selling sxmt isis which continues reaching for more territory. A land ruled by the harshest of islamist rule. Thats what were facing with the president. He being out on point. All these crisis have no quick fixes. President obama ran on hope and the new. Right now everything new is bad. And this right now is the age of containment and it will require him to come to terms of with an image of the presidency he never wanted but now must could not
front. President obama the hawk, the interventionist and the custodial chief executive, just trying to avoid seeing stupid stuff done close to him. The chief Political Columnist for the politico. Was this person pushed or did they jump . How would we frame this resignation . A lot of people pushing. She recognized her maintaining the job wasnt tenable anymore. She said publicly congress had lost fate in her. The press secretary at the white house said the president himself touchdowned the agency needed new leadership and was willing to accept the resignation. They said they didnt know about this haste incident until yesterday. It had to be disturbing in the middle of this issue. This came about very fast. Just this morning they were defending her on tv and they were saying she was still the
best leader for the agency. Youre right. In fact this morning, lets watch this. The white house said the president was sticking by Julia Pierson. Speaking for the president on morning joe today. Are you telling me this morning that the president of the United States and the first lady have confidence in yool i cant pierson to run an agency that is supposed to protect their two daughters . Yes. They have confidence. These are men and women who wake upper day, professionals. Im not talking about professionals. I think they deserve to have better leadership. She takes it very seriously. I can tell that you the president and staff take it very seriously. The president is concerned about the security around his family as any parent would be. It looks like rolling disclosure. If the president didnt just decide today. He must have decided to say he
is sticking with her. I think the president decided that he had been misled by the secret Service Director or the staff had been misled. He was not getting the straight facts about first, how far this last intruder penetrated into the white house. They had been misled about a shooting incident which endangered the children of the president and he couldnt live with that. Like most couple, the president cares more about the safety of his spouse and his children than himself and his children and his spouse care more about his safety than themselves. And they dont feel safe in the place where they should feel the safest which is the white house. In washington, d. C. You know, on 18 acres. You can set up a safety perimeter around 18 acres. Anyone who lives or works in the white house ought to be safe once they enter that perimeter
and theyre just not. After yesterdays performance, some lawmakers began calling for piersons resignation. Talking about how she got there. Ive come to the conclusion that my confidence and my trust in this director, miss pierson, has eroded and i do not feel comfortable with her in that position. Let me go back to peter baker. Youre one of the stars. How is he putting fet a new role . It is not only the incompetence. He said it was unlikely. We played the tape a couple times last night. He said it is unlikely that somebody will come here carrying ebola. Well, theyre here. And we have isis now that looks like it will keep growing. Theyre close to turkey today. Theyre on the offense still. Weve force told them into a new
deployment mode. Theyre still on the offensive. How at the adapting to this new role of custodian of bad news rather than the man from hope. Youre right. Not a lot of hope right now. A cascade of one thing or ooflt things that have become huge furor. Remember, the prisoner swap with bergdahl, the v. A. Scandal that forced the withdrawal of shinseki. There are so many things that happened the past few weeks. The last thing they want is for the secret service to become an issue, that is something that should be assumed and rehide upon and thats why you saw this may out so quickly. Lets get tough here. Is this the problem of a second term that president s get hazy and cut off from the country and
they start picking deputies for jobs . The lazy thing, somebody leads. They dont mix new people, new hot shots to fill these jobs. They just keep promoting the person whose turn it is and theyre not as good as the person they picked the first time. Yeah. That is the nature of a second term and the danger of a second term. You dont want to feel like youre going with the b team. Noon, sometime those deputies turn out to be really good because theyve had the experience for six years. I would depend. Why is this second term let me go to roger. This is all coming together. Youve written brill yandlely. What is going on . Is it just the earth is turning and you cant keep doing new good things because the events which are often bad keep coming
at you. Sometimes events are just bigger than the people who try to control the events. I think you may be right about promoting the second person in charge to be in charge. But you can accuse president obama of a lot of things. I dont think laziness, intellectual or otherwise, is one of them. I think he is a man who attacks problems. I think hes had terrible bad luck in his second term. He has faced terrible crises and will continue to do so. And he is facing exactly what he didnt want to face. He was the peace candidate when he first ran. He wanted to get the troops back home from wherever they were. Now hes the president sort of an edndless warfare. And the next president s term is the way he put it. This is not what he wanted. I think he is doing the best he can. There are reports now that isis is adapting to u. S. Air strikes. And nbc news is reporting the isis army has overrun an iraqi army base 50 mile from baghdad. If his generals recommend an american ground war, his biggest supporters would be from the hard right. Only 32 of democrats would support ground action but 63 of republicans and cap this, twothirds of the teach would back a ground war. I have saluted so many time, dance with the one that brung you. They like what he said in the early part of the century in 2002. He was singed out by people looking for an antiwar candidate. After they found howard dean they found him. Now he is could not fronting with us the probability that were going into a long air war against isis and were hearing from a lot of people. It seems like the military wants
to go further. What will happen with his politics with that . Yeah. A very good question. He does say publicly that he will not send in large amounts of ground troops. I find it hard to imagine that he would do that. I think thats such a barrier to cross. Given that he can come into office to get us out of the middle east wars. But there are challenges. Do you single in special forces for more discreet operations . Do you send them in to help army units . Figure out how to fight themselves . Do you send them in to spot targets for air strikes . They may not be in combat directly shooting but theyre in harms way. The more you put them in harms way, the more chanlss you have for american casualties. I think thats something you want to avoid. It seem to be the question. And before you get me
accusing this president of being physically lazy. There is a social laziness. Refusing to meet new people and possibilities. I think this second term cabinet is not up to the first term cabinet. They never are. You know that. Kennedy went out and met people like mcnamara and rusk. And he talked they will into itself recruited people. He didnt even know they will. President s should go out and look for people. They should be practicing affirmative action all the time leading or else they get atrophied into that little world. People like valerie and mrs. Obama. Youre just listening to the same people all the time. I know it is a rigorous demand but it is a real one. Or you will get smaller as your presidency goes on. Thank you. Were learning more about the man fighting for his life in that dallas hospital after coming in with ebola. The cdc said it is monitoring
everyone hes come in contact with and that apparently includes a number of School Age Children. My question, who is responsible for keeping ebola out of this country and how did this guy get in . And a numb received a complaint from gay republican saying he could be part of a Political Party also joining us, Michelle Bernard and sam stein. Then one in four the. Rand pauls father says thats something we should cheer. Secession. Didnt we go through that in the 1860s . Finally let me finish with a trio of these challenges we face as a country. Often enough, but thank you. Thank you mom for protecting my future. Thank you for being my hero and my dad. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance could be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. No. Not exactly. To attain success, one must project success. Thats why we use fedex one rate. Their flat rate shipping. Exactly. It makes us look topnotch but we know its affordable. [ garage door opening ] [ sighs ] honey, havent i asked you to please use the we dont have a reception entrance. [ male announcer ] ship a pak via Fedex Express saver® for as low as 7. 50. Omar gonzalez pled not guilty for jumping over the fence at the white house. The judge ordered him to undergo an evaluation. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the United States, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. I lochecked bag. Free with my united mileageplus explorer card. I have saved 75 in checked bag fees. Priority boarding is really important to us. You can just get on the plane and relax. I love to travel, no foreign transaction fees means real savings. We can go to any country and spend money the way we would in the us. When i spend money on this card
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identified as having had contact with the patient. And are now being monitored at home for any signs of the disease. The questions tonight, how strinkent are the medical screenings in place to prevent someone affected with ebola from traveling to the United States. And who is responsible . Now that the United States has seen its first case of the disease, how much risk is there that it will spread . The director of the National Institutes of allergy and infectious diseases. Tony, my friend, i want to know. Youre thinking about how did this person get through . What will stop future people from coming through . Especially from west africa with the disease. When the person got on the plane, he was infected, obviously, but he was completely without symptoms. And he flew on the 20th of september, arrived here, and went for another four days with no symptoms. And it was only on the 24th of september that he developed
symptoms. So it is virtually impossible to prevent someone from coming here when theyre not symptoms. If you go to the airport in monrovia, in liberia, and have a fever or symptom attic, they wont let you on the plaenl. But he was asymptomattic. The encouraging news is that being without symptoms, the people on the may not were not at risk. Only when he became symptomatic after a few days in the states were people who came into contact with him at risk of getting infected. Were not dealing with a vet rin airy situation. He is a person who knows he came in could not tagt with ebola and recently. He knew that. Does anyone ask you that question . They ask you, have you been here animals . Have you been near vegetables lately . They ask those questions. Were the questions put to that man leaving monrovia of he was
in contact with anyone with ebola or not . Is there that kind of rigor to ask that obvious question . The answer is yes, you can obviously do that. Im not so sure that he actually knew that the person had ebola. He died. Excuse me . They died. I know. But he did not know the person had ebola. That was the point. Theyre in the middle of an epidemic. Im using common sense. Im not a doctor. It seems the possibility of infection is pretty high if they had the symptoms of ebola and they die of something that looks like ebola and youre coming from monrovia, liberia and we dont have any way of doing, at least honlsy test. I dont know. Honesty tests are almost an impossible thing to do, chris. The issue of screening people for symptoms and fever works well. And as i said before, i was not
surprised when i heard that this person got through. Because weve been saying that. When someone is exposed, infected but not yet sick, it is virtually impossible to determine whether that person has ebola. Thats what happened with this person. How can the president of the United States say two weeks ago, it is unlikely Something Like this would happen. He said it would be unlikely. It isnt unlikely. It just happened. Well, you can be unlikely and still happen. It is unlikely but in fact it isnt impossible. How do you tell the American People dont worry, its unlikely. You cant keep saying it is unlikely if its happened. Can you . Well, it depends. It is still an unlikely situation that someone would get through. It is still unlikely. Let me go to you. The American People would like to know there is a wall between us and ebola. We have a wall . Can we protect it . Well, i think with these
types of news and headlines there is fear being struck. The key is we should not be panicking. The American Health care system has been studying this for years. They have had systems in place for years. Theyve done researches, drills, training. Even when the doctor came back, there were nurses on vacation who wanted to come back early so they could be part of the support system to stop this. We may not be able to prevent every person from coming back here but we have to rest assure the American Health care system is the best. They have protocols in place, emergency plans in place. Even when the students came back from International Travel at the beginning of the college year, the colleges had set up emergency plans to make sure they can monitor these people. We are isolating this person and finding all their contacts. While people are concerned we need to look at the bright side. And ebola is not the same in this country as it is in africa. For example, the three people
who have come to emory to receive treatment, they have all lived and survived. Thats a testament to our Health Care System which is very different from what is going on in africa. This guy is a liberian national. Why did you say come back here . I can understand an american getting back in relatively easily. Arent there rules when youre trying to come in from thered world country . Can you just get on a plane . Does anyone stop you from getting on the plane . They do have protocols in place for Airline Workers to look for symptoms hike the previous physician was talking about. If they do not have symptoms, you cannot isolate the entire world. We cannot say everybody who travels has to be isolated. He did not have silts. He did not have a fever or anything to make us wonder or worry. The key is when he did receive care, he is being treated and isolated and they are monitoring the contact. What do you think you should do if you were president of the United States in material of letting people in from that part
of the world . West africa where you have a high situation developing. Were sending 3,000 soldiers over there so it is serious business. It may be time for some serious containment policies that we have