Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows...Oct 12

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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows



WASHINGTON (AP) -- Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

ABC's "This Week" - Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.; Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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NBC's "Meet the Press" - White House national security adviser Susan Rice; former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and James Baker.

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CBS' "Face the Nation" - Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas; former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta.

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CNN's "State of the Union" - Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., head of the Democratic National Committee.

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"Fox News Sunday" - Theodore Olson, who helped lead the legal team that challenged Virginia's gay marriage ban; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.

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McCain declares ISIL is winning
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By BYRON TAU |
10/12/14 9:53 AM EDT

Sen. John McCain asserted on Sunday the United States and its allies are not winning in the conflict against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

“They’re winning, and we’re not,” the Arizona Republican said on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the group, which has claimed large amounts of territory in both Iraq and Syria.

“The Iraqis are not winning. The Peshmerga, the Kurds are not winning,” McCain told host Candy Crowley.

McCain said more American troops need to be on the ground in the form of forward air controllers and special forces to help assist in airstrikes. He also called for a no-fly zone over both Syria and Iraq.

And, he said, the targets of the air war should be expanded to include the ruling regime of Syria — which is embroiled in a civil war at the same time as ISIL, also known as ISIS, advances.

“You have to go after ISIS and Bashar Al-Assad,” McCain said, adding that ISIL forces were crossing freely between both countries.

“There’s no boundary between Syria and Iraq. Why should we differentiate?” McCain said.

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Woodward: ISIL strategy a 'mess'
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By TREVOR EISCHEN |
10/12/14 9:55 AM EDT

The U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria is a "mess," veteran journalist Bob Woodward said Sunday.

President Barack Obama is "clearly going through a wake-up call," Woodward said on "Fox News Sunday," and his plan to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and its influence in the region is a "mighty ambitious goal."

And, he said, if Obama and Congress do not work more closely together to combat the extremist group, the United States is "in for a calamity."

"He's got to come up with something that's going to work," Woodward said.

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Sanders fears Mideast ‘quagmire’
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By BYRON TAU |
10/12/14 10:06 AM EDT

Sen. Bernie Sanders says he worries the United States will be dragged into a “quagmire” in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

“We have been at war for 12 years. We have spent trillions of dollars," the Vermont independent said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “What I do not want, and I fear very much, is the United States getting sucked into a quagmire and being involved in perpetual warfare year after year after year.”

Sanders said that Arab and Middle Eastern countries need to be much more involved and invested in the conflict.

“This is not just an American problem. This is an international crisis. This is a regional crisis,” Sanders said. “This is a war for the soul of Islam, and the Muslim nations must be deeply involved."

Saudi Arabia and others need to commit resources, he said, so that American taxpayers are not responsible for the entirety of the campaign.

“Saudi Arabia is the fourth largest defense spender in the world," Sanders said. "They have an army which is probably seven times larger than ISIS. They have a major air force."

“I want the Saudi Arabian government. I want their troops to be on the ground," he said. “It cannot — and should not — be the United States alone.”

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NIH official: ‘The system worked’ on Ebola
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By BYRON TAU |
10/12/14 10:19 AM EDT

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said on Sunday the system put into place to slow the spread of Ebola transmission in the United States was working.

“The system worked,” Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week”

On Sunday, officials in Texas announced that a second person in Dallas had tested positive for the deadly virus - a health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week.

“She was on voluntary self monitoring,” he said about the latest victim. “She found she got infected, and she immediately did what she was supposed to have done.”

“So even in this troublesome situation, the system is working.” Fauci said.

Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," Fauci argued against shutting down international travel from Africa could actually do more harm than good
"That would be counterproductive," Fauci said about proposals to close borders and shut down flights. Fauci said that such travel disruptions can harm a country's ability to fight the epidemic.


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Frieden 'deeply concerned' about new Ebola case
By TREVOR EISCHEN |
10/12/14 11:00 AM EDT

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday he's "deeply concerned" about a health care worker who has contracted Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian patient who was the first confirmed case of the virus in the United States.

Thomas Frieden said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that the CDC will now make sure that the new Ebola patient is monitored closely and that hospital employees who were in contact with the new patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas are tested and kept away from the public.

"Even a single breach can result in contamination," Frieden said, adding the CDC will also pursue a detailed investigation into how the breach in safety protocol occurred.

Frieden could not provide any estimates on how many health care workers are being monitored because of their association with the contaminated health care worker. And he said he could not reveal the gender or name of the patient, citing patient confidentially.

However, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas) was able to confirm in a later interview on the same show that the new Ebola patient is a nurse, “most likely female,” and that a breach in safety protocol most likely resulted in the virus being transferred from Duncan.

“I’m very sad to hear about this nurse being exposed,” McCaul said.

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Rice: ISIL campaign will take time
By BYRON TAU |
10/12/14 11:08 AM EDT

National Security Advisor Susan Rice cautioned on Sunday that the campaign against Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria would take time.

“We are in the early stages of what is going to be, as President Obama has said, a long term effort,” Rice said in a sit-down interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“We’re trying over time to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL,” Rice said, referring to fighters from the group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

“This is going to take time,” she said.

“Our air campaign is off to a strong start,” Rice said. “We’ve seen some very important successes”

Rice also was asked a question about the United States cooperation with Iran against ISIL and other militants.

Rice said that the United States was not working with Iran on the campaign against ISIL.

“We’re not in coordination or direct consultation with the Iranians,” said Rice. “There’s no coordination, there’s no collaboration on the anti-ISIL campaign.”