months afterwards. the report also shines a real bright light on how much agony was going on trump administration officials. some of them who were frustrated and concerned by the guidance they were having to give to the public. dr. jay butler, then deputy director of infectious disease for the cdc, he tells the committee that he was concerned about the guidance that he was forced to give updating mask guidance for communities of faith. he says, quote, to the committee, i was doing a lot of soul searching about whether or not i should agree to make changes in the document, cleartally clearly that was a directive. i felt what had been done was not good public health practice. dr. debbie birx, a covid response director at the time, she talks and tells the committee about how she is purposefully sat out a meet agent the white house, she didn t want to be included in a meeting where there were fringe
for telling this truth. but also, when you publish a book, there s an expectation of some news, some truth in it. and it seems like the daily reality was just bad. and mark meadows can create whatever excuse is in miss mind. if this is the first nugget the guardian appears to have picked up from the chief of staff s book, it speaks to a greater pattern of irresponsibility and narcissism than even we knew, and we knew it was bad. it could be, one, meadows doesn t understand what the science is and thought the second test was a get out of jail free card. that s possible. and the second look is he was somehow proud of it. we have all learned to live with this. . we have only lost as many people as died in the civil war. don t forget. this administration, this president s irresponsibility, debbie birx has said led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of americans unnecessarily.
The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, airing on Sunday, November 28, 2021, on "Face the Nation."
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