administration. eric lander, the head of the office of science and technology policy, who had a seat in president biden s cabinet has resigned after a white house investigation found that he had mistreated employees. remember, that biden had pledged early on that anyone in his administration who was caught mistreating colleagues would be fired on the spot. today, politico .com broke the news that the results of the two-month investigation it found quote credible evidence that lander had violated the white house s workplace policy. tonight the white house released a statement saying that the president accepted the resignation with gratitude for his work on ostp, on the pandemic, and the cancer moon shot and climate change and other key priorities. we ll be right back. climate ch other key priorities we ll be right back.
reported in 2018, for politico, a brilliant story, the president had a habit of ripping up documents that he carried from his past life as businessman into the white house, despite it being unlawful and despite being warned by his former chief of staff and white house counsel repeatedly. the entire apparatus around record archiving and the whole process of the white house records management, and the transfer to the national archives had a completely changed approach because of the former president s habits, he was shredding everything in sight, and it was almost involuntary and pretty habitual. but this actually continued through 2021. right until he left office, which we found out in our reporting about the january 6th investigation, that we were not, we really had no idea that it was going to lead to where we are today which is the national
progress and the tools that we now have, we are moving towards a time when covid is not a crisis. but, is something that we can protect against and treat. a positive message, out of the white house, as covid continues this dramatic down tick across most of the country. also today, the white house made two key hires to its team of top scientist advisers. last, week the highest rank science official in the biden ministration, eric lander, resigned, after accusations that he had demeaned in disrespected his colleagues. he held tools, as the presidents top science advisor, and the head of the office of science and technology policy. tonight, president biden chose a laundry nelsons, who eric nelson s deputy, to lead the police in his place. and to fill the role of top science adviser to president, biden has tapped francis collins, who until late last year, led the national institutes of health. the white house says that nelson and collins will perform these new rules on a temporary basi
. as a result of all this progress and the tools we now have, we are leading to a time where covid isn t a crisis but something we can protect against and treat. a positive message out of the white house today, as covid continues its dramatic downtick across most of the country. also today, the white house made two key hires to a team of top science advisers. l.a. week the highest ranked science official in the biden administration resigned over accusations that he demeaned and disrespected his colleagues. the president s top science adviser and the office of science and technology policy. today president biden chose eric landers deputy to lead the role in his place and to fill the top science adviser role to the
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