advisors and was president biden briefed on this idea at the time? i think i just answered your question which you may not have been listening zbloo. that s not the question i asked. do you have another question of the. was president biden briefed at the time. i ve answered your question. harris: i met you on the hill before tv. you were chairman of the oversight committee in the house. if you had somebody on your staff who didn t communicate with you clearly about that type of detail there is a surge coming and people will die you better get more tests you would fire them. your response. you would think. look, if the president wants a major reset on covid, he will have to fire dr. fauci because the people that he puts out front to be the mouthpiece for this administration i just don t think are trusted by the majority of americans. the guy has more time for press briefings and photo shoots and doesn t have the time to do the science. until he is fired i think
howard: the media debate over the omicron surge took a personal and fairly nasty turn when senator rand paul got into it on live television with the top white house medical official, anthony fauci. do you think we slowed down the death rate? more people have died now under president biden than did under president trump. you are the one responsible. what happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue is that all of a sudden that cupping kindles the crazies out there, and i have life threats upon my life, harassment of my famil- so go to rand paul web site, and you see fire dr. fauci with a little box that says contribute here. tony fauci s appearance
all of a sudden that kindles the crazies out there, and i have threats upon my life, harassment of my family, and my children with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me. it makes a difference because as some of you may know, just about three or four weeks ago on december 21st, a person was arrested who was on their way from sacramento to washington, d.c., at a speed stop in iowa. and they asked the police asked him where he was going, and he was going to washington, d.c., to kill dr. fauci. and they found in his car an ar-15 and multiple magazines of ammunition because he thinks that maybe i m killing people. so i ask myself, why would someone want to do this? so go to rand paul website, and you see fire dr. fauci with a
you see fire dr. fauci with a little box that says contribute here. you can do $5, $10, $20, $100. so you are making a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain. so, the only you have politically attacked your colleagues, and in a politically reprehensible way. you won t defend it. you won t argue it. in the meantime, at least one of five eligible people in this country remain unvaccinated against covid and new cases are averaging close to three-quarters of a million a day. joining us now, dr. fauci, president biden s chief medical adviser and director of the national institutes of allergy and infectious diseases and a public servant for decades. dr. fauci, thanks for being with us. um, the senator paul apart from many others who attacked you is he twaul twally graduated from medical school. he is a medical doctor, which i find remarkable. how do you square that with what is coming out of his mouth?
ammunition because he thinks that maybe i m killing people. so i ask myself, why would senator want to do this? so go to rand paul website and you see fire dr. fauci with a little box that says, contribute here. you can do $5, $10, $20, $100. so you are making a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain. did you catch that this time? is he jealous? is somebody jealous of dr. fauci? that s what it sounds like. if you, like, read the intonation and the body language, right. dr. fauci continued to defend himself tonight right here on cnn. he s raising money for his campaign by making me the villain. he calls me a polarizing figure. well, if you call me a murderer and say i m responsible for ridiculous, preposterous,