Be the fence. The problem seems to be the fact that someone jumped the fence, run 70 yards, went into the white house with nobody stopping them. I saw that you have that you for psychology. You have training for survival skills, but none of which i minimize, all of which is very important. This is just processing a crime scene, director. It is not high math. It is processing a crime scene. You actually dont need 18 weeks to do. That you just need to be able walk around. All right. Good morning, its wednesday, october 1st. October is here with a slew of breaking developments over the past 24 hours. With us on set we have chairman of deutsche, incorporated, Donny Deutsche, in washington. Msnbc political analyst. Former chairman of the national committee. Michael steele and White House Correspondent for the wall street journal, wbr id wbr550 carole lee along with willie, joe and me this morning. How are you doing . b i tell you, the hearing yesterday was infuriateing for anybody that wanted answers, nothing happened. Bottom lean is, the keystone cops are protecting the commanderinchief and the head of the keystone cops didnt have one shred of evidence plus you and i were talking beforehand about another incident. Oh, wow. With the president. That was frightening. So we have two more at least, examples, of security gone amuck for the president in the United States. We will get to those stories. One is simply stunning. Its actually almost worse than the white house jumper. So well get to that in just a moment. Crazy baseball game last night. Willie. Did you watch . Oh my god, i couldnt stay up that late. I read about it. You went to bed. I know joe was up late watching it. Thats why hes on vacation. I tell you wbrid wbr1150 what, it was 73 before i went to bed. They took out lester two early. The as let the royals km come back n. A team hasnt been in the playoffs since 1995. They were left for dead a couple years ago, you look at the standings, this is a cinderella story, willie, what a great start for the playoff series. You fight all season, you have a great season for the royals and the as. It comes down to one bad pitching performance could cost you the whole rest of the season t. Royals are n. They have just as good a shot as anybody as they move on. 162 games, it comes down to this one game you go home. What an incredible story for kansas city. You know what, if kansas city keeps, goes well into the mica, we owe her. Ly tell claire we are coming,
because she will not believe you. You owe her. Lets get right to the latest case. First case of the ebola virus to be diagnosed here at home in the United States. At this hour Health Officials say the unidentified spasht fighting for his life at a hospital in dallas, texas. The cdc confirms the man tested positive for the virus but is unsure how he became infected. He took a flight from liberia to dallas on september 19th to visit family, four or five days later, the man started to feel sick. Right now the cdc says there is quote zero risk to others who were on board the same flight the agency says the man did not sew symptoms at the time and was not contagious. We will talk about what that means, officials were also working to quickly trace the patients path and to determine with whom he may have had close contact. The director of the cdc says he
understands why americans may be concerned, but he is confident the deadly virus can be contained. Ebola is a scary disease because of the severity of illness it causes and were really hoping for the recovery of this individual. At the same time, we are stopping it in its traction in this country. We can do that bus of two things, Strong Health care Infection Control that stops the spread of ebola and strong Core Public Health functions that trace contacts, track contacts, isolate them, if they have any symptoms and stop the chain of transmission. And doctors at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital are confident they are fully prepared to treat the patient. They say the man has been in isolation since he was admitted on sunday and that all possible precautions are being taken. We are caring for this patient because this person came to us for hem and they came to
us sick and its the right thing to do. Our submission to improve the hepp health of the people in the communities we serve, our focus on compassion is at the heart of everything we do. All right. A lot of questions around this lets bring in dr. Zeke emmanuel. A lot of questions about how one can contract this. How can officials be so certain that this can be contained since it is here now . Well, its here, but its, again, its hard to transmit ebola. It doesnt go by breathing on someone or sneezeing on someone. You need contact with bodily fluids like blood, like urine. So its not going to spread very wisely, on the airplane, this person had for the symptoms. It took four days for symptoms to occur when he arrived in theUnited States when you are not symptomatic you dont have a high fever and are you not transmitting the virus. They are confident about the airplane. They will do very contact specific tracing. The difference twiens is we have a functioning Health Care System and functioning Public Health system. We can do what the doctor said, which is isolate people, care for them with gloves and masks and gowns to make sure we dont spread the virus. So zeke, as you say, we hope no one on the plane would have contacted this, that wafb airborne, juanes he arrived if dallas, emts, doctors in the hospital. People like that. So again when people are examined and stuff, we now have universal precautions, so contactings his blood or something, they would have used gloves and masks. Its possible but very unlikely to transmit. Remember we have now 30 years in this country with training with hiv and other infectious agents. We have put into effect very good Infection Control measures in hospitals. Its something that the country has been working on for a number of years. While its not impossible to transmit it, its not going to break out and transmit a whole neighborhood or whole city and in that regard i think the notion that we will not have an outbreak of ebola here, more than just an isolated person or two, i think is very reliable and very true. All right. Zeke, thank you. Other news to cover, more trouble for the secret service with new reports president obama rode an elevator with an arm felon. They only realized the private Security Guard had a gun after they confronted him for refusing to stop recording with a cell
phone. The 3457b man was fired on the spot with his supervise or only then did the secret service find out. It has congress coming down hard on the president s body guards. In just a few hours the plan accused of jumping the white house fence and getting into the first family home is facing a judge. It comes ahead of one day after the secret Service Director was grilled. She is promising a full review to make sure it never happens again. So, in fact the federal complaints and early reports were not accurate. Is that correct . Yes or no, please . I think the original report is accurate that mr. Gonzalez scaled the fence. Maam, hold it. I have very little time. The American People want to know is the president safe . I want it to be crystal clear, you make a run and a dash
to the white house, were going to take you down. I want overwhelming force, would you disagree with me. I want our officers and agents to execute appropriate force for anyone attempting to challenge or breach the white house. Why would he say there is no weapon . You have to ask mr. Donovan that question. You havent done that . Why would the secret service put out a statement to the Associated Press, did you correct the Associated Press . Did you call them back and say you got that wrong . I have no knowledge of. This is beyond the pale and i have listened to your testimony very deliberately here this morning and i wish to god you protected the white house like you are protecting your reputation here today. This is the secret service against one individual with Mental Illness and you lost. You lost and you had three shots at this guy. Have you ever heard of these guys . This is, its not very costly. You can subscribe, but that can be installed. Its a Simple Technology device and Company Private system that can do that. So i dont think we have to spend a lot of money. Okay. Meanwhile the Washington Post reports the suspect in that intrusion Omar Gonzalez was tackled by an off duty agent assigned to president obamas daughters. The agent just happened to be walking into the white house moments after the obama family boarded a helicopter and, joe, i dont know if this is too cynical, but its a little too easy for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, who is going to have an argument about how bad this is . But the problem is, Julia Pearson went there she had no answers, she was doing a cya operation. Americans want to know what happened. She didnt tell them anything. All she was doing is covering herself instead of protecting
the president. There is a good reason republicans and democrats came together united against her. She needs to step down, i tell you what, somebody needs to go in there, top to bottom, 13 secret service out, because if they dont, somebodys going to die, the president is going to die or, god forbid, a member of the first family is going to die this first family or the next first family. This is unacceptable. You know what, you can have an irs you can have an irs officer cover her back side for a month or a year like we are seeing of the irs right now with lois lerner, you cant, though, in this case. In this case, if they dont do their job, we have a constitutional crisis because the commanderinchief is killed or disabled. She has to leave. She is not up to the task and i want to know why shes still there. All right. We we learned of this latest
vent in the elevator which is absolutely ceil chilling on every level. Have you the Sign Language person who was a few feet away. You can go, there is now a legitimate list of Security Breaches that border on pathetic if being the secret service is what their job s. You cover the white house. You cover the president. How hard is it for to you get into the white house . Well, its pretty difficult. You know, too, have you interviewed the president. You guys have been to the white house. There is a whole procedure you have to go to. You have to submit your Social Security number. You go through a number of levels of security. You take cdc incident in the elevator t. Reporters there to cover that event had to arrive hours earlier to be screened. There is sort of an emperor has no clothes element to all of this. Its a crisis for the secret service. Its embarrassing for the white house. You have a president that travels around with massive
amount of security. When he travels there is a whole apparatus that goes with him. The idea that its that porous and somebody can get to the president who is carrying gun and taking photographs inches from him. It raises more than questions than answers. Yesterday what you saw is there is growing tension between the white house and the secret service at least in the Communications Job and thats only going to get womplrse. As joe was talking about, its how long will the director be able to say. Her career is what it is, she was tasked with improving the image of the secret service in light of the prostitution scandal and im not seeing, im not sure about the steps in her career and if they match the job. I got to tell you. Shes had a pretty distinguished career. Hes done details of three different president s and moved
up in the ranks, that wasnt in the performance, she was sent up there to protect the reputation. Ly touch the question that everybody is afraid and im going to touch on it. Im not going to say it. So we get a new shock in this story every day, yesterday, two days ago it was the intrude tore the white house, Omar Gonzalez got much farther than we thought, yesterday, we learned he was only taken down by an off duty secret service guy who was going home and happened to see a guy running around the white house and tackled him. Thats one. The second spoort this guy at the cdc who was acting very strangely and, in fact, had a gun about a foot away from the president inside an elevator. You ask yourself, how can these things happen . We have secret service had this cloak of infall ability. We understand they are doing something behind the scenes to protect that cloak. It is unfathomable. We will probably move on to next
isis, can terrorists around the world watching this you go, wow, how does this incentivize them. What eyes does it open there. Joe mentioned the irs. Its one more institution we can lose faith in. The irs, congress, secret service, you know the issues with the church. The things we think are just so solid and that basically are our security of killers, our life is built on, every time we look there are cracks. Here, once again, secret service. Thats unbelievable. Thats a great point. Michael steele, all the scandal, one scandal after another scandal. Its been a particularly tough two years for the United States government. Whether you talk about the nsa, now the secret service, it seems the only institution that americans have any respect for right now is the u. S. Military. Yeah. This is a real body blow for the secret service. Im wondering, why is julia
pearson still there . Yeah. Why is she still there . I think a little bit is the white house is caught flat footed on this. I think theyre learning exactly the depth of incompetency of protecting the president as we are. Remember, this was brought about because there are whistleblowers inside the secret service, frustrated agents, apparently, who have been quietly speaking about this. Now theyre elevateing it telling reporters there is whats going on. There is a serious morale issue with the rank and file. I know a number of agents. I talked to them about it. Theyre very frustrated. The idea that their training is lapseing in terms of just the daytoday protection. Someone commented, joe, that you know probably with those guards that night, this gentleman was rung across the lawn, they were probably looking at their iphones or not paying attention, you have this letting down the
guard thats really frustrating. The white house now has one more thing to deal with, one more agency to deal with. Theyre trying to figure out how to get their hands around it. She was brought in to fix things. Tern left, past stairs that ran into the residence, he ran the entire length of the white house to the other end of the east room before he was tackled by a heavy armed counterassault agent near doorway to the green room. All of a sudden, that was a little map of what happened. We need to see it again. Its horrible. Michael has a button, its like a garage door opener, he does an makes at home on his mac book. My car, i dont really understand why she still has her job, mica, i dont understand why the white house isnt going after this more aggressively. It is the president , the first lady and the children who are most at danger now. I want to go further. I want to know why she has that job to lead the agency and i want to know why she still has it. Still ahead, we will do that. You did that softly. That was soft as opposed did she get the job because shes a woman . Shes the first woman to lead the agency. I dont understand it. Do you . Do any of you get it at this point . The agency seems to be really coming apart at the seams. Why she still has her job . You are asking why she got it. I want to know. Im asking the question, that illegal . It is not. I think the question is we got to be very careful. Hold on, willie. Let me check. Im checking the law books here, noer, its not illegal. It was a good question. Nobody is saying its illegal. Mica. You guys are looking shocked. Are you sucking mica if she got
the job because shes a woman and still has it because shes a woman . Im asking how and 82 she got the job, given the state of things today. Its interesting to me the whole thing, im reading her ascension to the job. She has a very distinguished career, but that place is apolice and as a woman brought in to clean up sort of the reputation of the agency and problems with prostitution and drinking, i am not sure. Maybe there is more. Well Ask White House press secretary josh ernest about reports that president obama missed nearly 60 of his daily intelligence briefing. Thats actually an interesting story that. Can be explained. Maybe not. We will ask him about this issue as well. Also, Broadway Joe Namath swings by the set in our 7 00 hour. That will be smooth. Plus, is jimmy kimmel the most dangerous celebrity working today . Well explain why thats true. Are you watching morning joe. Well be right back. Theres confidence. Then theres trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. Our expertise, technology, and high quality parts means your peace of mind. Its no wonder last year we sold over three million tires. And during the big tire event, get up to 140 in mailin rebates on four select tires. Never miss a chance to dance. Introducing a revolution in bladder leak protection. New always discreet. Up to 40 thinner, for superior comfort. Absorbs 2x more than you may need. For danceallyouwant protection. No wonder more women already prefer new always discreet pads over poise. New always discreet. Now bladder leaks can feel like no big deal. Because hey, pee happens. Curious . Visit alwaysdiscreet. Com. Time now to take a look at the morning papers. By the way, i was at the ad week, brand genius awards so much fun. I got to watch the best commercials ever made and meet the grand geniuses, maybe well have some nikts this lifetime. The philadelphia enquirer, police in pennsylvania have uncovered new evidence for the search of the man they say ambushed two state troopers, killing one. Two pipe bombs were found in the woods where survivalist