Chuck Todd to Pfeiffer: Why Should We Trust the Administration on Ebola Outbreak?

TODD: “I think one of your challenges though is a trust deficit that has been created over the last 18 months. I want to put up a graphic, whether you believe it’s fair or not, it is a fact about all the different sort of government gaps over the last 18 months. Edward Snowden stealing NSA files, the VA faking wait times, IRS losing emails, healthcare.gov doesn’t launch. The president himself saying, ‘U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated ISIS.’ The DHS, the border failure with that surge over the summer, sort of failure, and of course, the secret service. Why should we trust that what you’re saying about the CDC is able to handle this? You understand why there’s more skepticism than normal.”
PFEIFFER: “Look, I do understand that people have had a growing skepticism of institutions for a long time, including government. But people should know that everyone in the situations you mentioned, where a problem arises, we deal with it. We deal with it quickly, we deal with it forcefully to make sure it doesn’t happen. Let’s take one example that got a lot of attention over the summer, which is the surge at the Southwestern border. That was a problem that came. We brought to bear every resource possible to do it."