http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/26/all-hands-on-deck-white-house-convenes-27-person-ebola-meeting/?print=1All Hands On Deck: White House Convenes 27 Person Ebola Meeting
Posted By Derek Hunter On 9:20 PM 10/26/2014
Suffering a crisis of confidence over his leadership on Ebola a week before the midterm elections, President Barack Obama assembled a massive staff meeting on the issue at the White House Sunday.
Including the president, there were 24 people in physical attendance at the meeting CBS News said was convened “to discuss a nationwide policy for health care workers returning from West Africa.” Vice President Joe Biden joined via telephone, and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thomas Frieden and US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power joining via video teleconference.
Sunday, the New York Times reported President Obama was unhappy with the 21 day mandatory quarantine for health care workers returning from Ebola-impacted nations announced by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Behind the scenes, Obama has been pressuring the governors to lift the policy.
The quarantine made national news when its first subject, a nurse named Kaci Hickox, wrote a scathing op-ed on her forced confinement.
Attendees at the White House meeting include everyone from Secretary of State John Kerry and adviser Valeria Jarrett, to White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri and new Ebola Czar Ron Klain.
Here are the participants and their titles, courtesy of Mark Knoller of CBS News:
The President
The Vice President (via telephone)
John Kerry, Secretary of State
Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense
Eric Holder, Attorney General
Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Secretary
Denis McDonough, Chief of Staff
Shaun Donovan, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Amb. Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (via video teleconference)
Valerie Jarrett, Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement
Susan Rice, National Security Advisor
Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Neil Eggleston, Counsel to the President
John Holdren, Director of the Office of Science and Technology
Ron Klain, Ebola Response Coordinator
Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (via video teleconference)
Katie Fallon, Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs
Jennifer Palmieri, Director of Communications
Marisa Lago, Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Development, Treasury Department
Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development
Suzanne George, Chief of Staff of the National Security Council
Brian Egan, Deputy Counsel to the President
Rand Beers, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security
Jeffrey Prescott, Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President
Gayle Smith, Senior Director for Development and Democracy, National Security Council
