Im happy the nurse from maine is not ill. Glad she doesnt have ebola. I hope it doesnt develop in the next period until the 21 day period is over. Im glad she can be comfortable and back in her home now where she wants to be. I think upon reflection she will understand that my job is to protect the health and safety of the people of new jersey and the reason and thats only reason in made the decisions i did and i wouldnt make the decision differently if i had to do it again today. Good morning its tuesday, october 28th. Live look at times square. Oh, my goodness, its a cumbersome tuesday morning. We barely made it. Literally is harder to jump a fence to get to the east room of the white house than here. Whoever runs this building. Bill told me yesterday that i was a little too harsh off the top by talking about dumb liberals and, you know i didnt like it. Designee said youre insulting
your audience. Because dumb liberals dont watch this show. You have to be smart to watch this show because dumb liberals and dumb conservatives they exist and say stupid bad things. I need to explain it. Please. Smart people, smart liberals, smart conservatives like watching this show because you dont just you know we dont paint by numbers for idiots. Like smart people watch this show. Now im going to be too harsh again this morning. Dumb people run this building. I mean seriously. Or the startest people on earth. I think they are the smartest people on earth. They just want to keep out any riffraff. Like the first intellectual test to get on this show. We failed. I struggled this morning. After 7 1 2 years who are the dr. Scarborough. Idiots who are running this building. One of the most important buildings in the world. We should send them to the
white house. Right. No one is talking to me. You know why . They are still outside the building. Its impossible to get in this building and seriously its been here since like the depression. You guys should have figured it out by now. Whoever runs 30 rock youre really dumb. Can we do some on air yeah. Little bit review. Its okay to have a point of view but lets tell people what were talking about first and then lets share our point of view. Okay. Its impossible to get into 30 rock. They had this thing since 1930 something and whoever is running the build cigarette stupid. How is that . Did i lay the predicate . Lets ghous. A lot to talk about. Yes. Once again the cdc figures something out after the fact and youre wondering who is running
the cdc. Maybe the same people who are running the building but im sorry go ahead. To the news. The nurse quarantined by new Jersey Governor Chris Christie is returning, returning from west africa is on her way home and able to leave the bubble. Shes out of the bubble. Did Chris Christie personally tase her before she left or what . Kaci hickox was en route to maine this morning after being released from an isolation tent. She needs to stay home for 21 days since her last exposure to ebola. Kaci hickoxs lawyer says thats not necessary since she tested negative for the virus. They say she will only remain in isolation for the next day sore. Cdc is recommending Health Care Workers returning from west africa voluntarily isolate themselves for 21 days. But it is rejecting mandatory quarantines. The white house is also criticizing that type of policy calling kaci hickoxs treatment disrespectful. She didnt travel over there
because she was guesting a big paycheck. Presumably shes not going to be inducted into the nurses hall of fame for it. She indict out of concern for her common man. Her service and commitment to this cause is something that should be honored and respected and i dont think we do that by making her live in a tent for two or thee days. Yes. But new Jersey Governor Chris Christie not backing down. I lived in a tent for two or three days. Okay. It was wild. Right . I leave it at tent. Sometimes i woke up and i wasnt even in a tent. I was just staring up at the stars. I think they were stars. Yeah, that concert you went to. I thought you were at the orphanage that weekend. Thats what i tell people. What did Chris Christie say . Chris christie refuses to apologize. Take a look. My job is not to represent her its to treatment people of new jersey. I know she was upset andry. She wanted to go home. Any of us have seen people traveling and stopped whether late for a plane or whatever they get upset and angry. Thats fine. I have absolutely nothing but goodwill for her going forward. Shes a good person. Went over and doing good work in west africa but she needs to understand that the obligation of elected officials is to protect the public health. Okay. Okay. Heres the deal. Two americas. Theres the americas of editorial writers, people like mike barnacle, the rest that we sit around tables and talk about things. Then theres everybody else. What i said yesterday is everybody else is on Chris Christies side. Outside of the news media. I was shocked. Like the most liberal liberals, yeah i got no problem with her staying in a tent for a couple of days. I was actually kind of blown away. Im a big believer of the 21 day
in home quarantine. I think cuomo has got it right. Pay them double. Have the federal government pay them double forgoing over and then coming home and not working. They need to be paid. They need to be but i was really surprised by the number of liberal liberal liberal liberal people who said i got no problem with Chris Christie. By the way people in new york city. Jammed in this tight space. We have hospitals where if they were treating an ebola patient that actually was sick would i take my kid to tehe er. You can ask democrats and they are all anxious about it. You know what this reminds me of . This reminds me of the editorial Rudy Giuliani is a horrible person, cops are out of control, la, la. Then you ask every liberal on the plane flying into laguardia, would you vote for Rudy Giuliani . Do you think thats happening here . I think i think youre right. This is one of the most massive disconnects between the chattering classes and the elites and what regular people at home are thinking. Now, of course, the chattering classes and elites and dumb liberals and the building security. Heres the deal. Just so you guys know, dumb liberals are like oh, we cant please let them go out and spit on us otherwise were horrible human beings. Dumb republicans are saying we shouldnt go west africa thats none of our business. It is our business. We got to do things at once. One we have to protect americans. I would say a mini marshal plan to go over to west africa. Do whatever it takes to support these people. And spend money to stop this virus in its tracks. So what do you think is the more prevalent feeling this massive disconnect that you just articulated thats going on in this country over this stuff, or the confusion that people feel about its the cdc against the federal government States Government now the military against the white house because the military is quarantining people. Im not sure how much confusion there is because theres this cnn poll showing seven in ten americans saying the federal government can stop an ebola epidemic and 54 belief the federal government is doing a good job. They can stop it. Its coming along. You go ahead. I was going to answer his question. Answer his question because im desperate to hear. Stay round our breakfast table when somebody asks a question you cant interrupt. Ill get you another cup, honey. Oh, this is fun today. Anyway ill answer your question and i would love to hear what mika has to say. Wouldnt yall. I said it yesterday. The biggest problem right now is you have a federal government that let the American People done time and time and time again going back over the past 15, 20 years. I went actually year by year by year, 98, 99, 2000. Go through it all. So the World Health Organization is saying this is much ado about nothing back in the spring. In late summer when it was exploding across west africa they mocked the leader of Doctors Without Borders saying this is a horrible virus and we have to do something. Mocked them. Saying youre just being pessimistic. The cdc has been wrong. The World Health Organization has been wrong. Everybody has always under stated it. If they had been upfront thats all americans need. You know what . We dont know how bad this virus is. Well do everything we can do, this epidemic. But they havent done that. Theyve always undersold to it. They always been proven wrong. Theyve always been late to the game. They were late to the game in dallas. They were wrong in dallas. They were late to the game in new york. They were late to the game with this guy running all over town bowling, coughing and spitting and jog all over people. They were late to the game. They were late to the game seriously i still want to know lets all say it. This guy is a hero. Who goes to a Bowling Alley in brooklyn when you may have ebola . Who does that . I cant think of a less sanitary thing to do other than the turkish baths willie and i go over tory thursday night. Those are more sanitary. I get a bad rap. Mika, i want to hear what mika hold on, mika has to talk. After you laid that out so articulately as to the fear mongering. Did you say it was fear mongering. When you talk about going to
a Bowling Alley and getting ebola. But having said that its not exactly what i said. Dont excuse me of fear mongering. I think its a bridge too far, sorry for the pun for Chris Christie to put a nurse in a plastic bubble with a plastic sorry bridge too far. We all agree with that. Up lost your mind. Mika, we agree with that. You say americans agree with him. No, i didnt say all americans agree with him but a lot of americans actually agreed with you when you were saying the other day before cuomo and christie quarantined him what was this guy running around going bowling. Im just repeating what you said before. It makes willie and me sad that i would just repeat what you said and then you would attack me. I dont think im going to say anything else today, willie. Oh, wow. I dont even know the question poesd to both of you because you are friends of his. Why is Chris Christie always so
angry . Theres a mistake. I dont know. Its all right to say i wish he would come back hes not going to come back ever on this show again. Just give that up. Chris christie, i wish he would come back on the show and explain thats not the way before bridgegate. Duke it out. Have a good time. Talk about things we disagree on. I dont know what the difference is now honestly. This nurse got caught in the cross hair of the implementation because cuomo who is a democrat, christie who is a republican announced the same policy. I watched the press conference on thursday night. This nurse sort of flew into the country from west africa treating ebola patients as that policy was created. If they quarantined somebody in a week it would be under circumstances. Heres the deal, nicole. They didnt think through this. For some reason they didnt think this is what happens. They let a doctor come home. He runs all over the place. Goes to Bowling Alley in brooklyn. Does all of this stuff. People wake up the next morning and saying wait this guy is going on subway, going bowling, hes running three or four miles. Its unclear when he had symptoms. Hes doing all this. Everybody stops and goes we cant have people coming back from west africa doing this. So then they overreact the other way. Chris christie sets up a tent and puts so she was a victim of the overreaction of what this doctor did when if they had a good middle ground like andrew cuomo has right now none of this would have happened. They did release her from her quantity. Christie did free her. A woman went to west africa to
help people in the most dire circumstances. He freed her after Chris Christie of new jersey and andrew cuomo of new york reporting from the New York Times fed panic by imposing new policy of mandatory quarantines for workers from west africa. Its not surprising they tried to adjust their positions. This is in the New York Times. The u. S. Military has that policy now. The point is theres a middle ground. Exactly. I believe Chris Christie had the best interest of the people of new jersey and want to protect people but putting her in a tent in a parking lot and providing the country with those visuals of her looking through the plastic that wasnt very smart. On the other hand doing nothing exactly. Is not a choice. Theres a smart middle ground. Exactly. The voice of reason. Here, here. Everybody, willie. Willie, voice of reason. But the u. S. Military now is having a similar debate to the
one that cuomo and christie hashed out in public view where they are taking military personnel and requiring the home isolate. They are in isolation. Maybe the middle ground will be found they are not allowed any more to go to pentagon said to go sierra leone Bowling Alleys and share shoes. That middle ground we were saying this for some time. This really isnt hard. This is a lack of leadership. Once again if the New York Times wants to talk about what is feeding the panic on the editorial page they need to talk about the continued lack of leadership on all levels. They are surprised. Oh, my god somebody comes to new york city and they have ebola and, i mean, why do we always respond to these after they happen . Its always reactive. Its never proactive. Because its always reactive you have these whips to the right and whips to the left. The political adviser i thought one of the good things
about having someone like that as president obamas ebola czar a political person is atuned to the public reaction to a policy. I thought that was part of why he was selected. So far he doesnt seem to have hit his stride. Mika, did you hear about this lexington herald leak. Theres so much politics in the news i cant believe we just did this. You and your mouth running on and on. Im serious. We need to get to other news. We will after the break. Well zip it. We have politics to get to and election day is coming, okay. Maybe, you know, mika, maybe i care a little too much. Maybe i love a little too much. Willie has always accused me of that. Im worried about the kids. I worry about, you know, maybe i dont want all of new york city to catch ebola. And maybe i dont want good nurses ill put you in a bubble. Plastic toilet. Good nurses go to west africa
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