Supreme court caused by the death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. President trump is expected to announce a replacement for Justice Ginsburg this week. Two days ago the democratic leader threatened that if the Senate Majority dares to play by the rules, and behave like a majority, it would mean quotes, the end of this supposedly great deliberative body. The end of the supposedly great deliberative body. Yesterday, we learned what he smeant. We saw Important Senate business hurt by what amounted to a temper tantrum. For some reason, the democratic leader decided to vet his frustration by blocking the Intelligence Committee, listen to this, from holding a bipartisan counterintelligence hearing. By blocking the Intelligence Committee from holding ald bipartisan counterintelligence hearing. The committee was set to hear from bill, the director of the National Counterintelligence and security center, this is the nations top counterintelligence official, among other things he works directly
Avoiding crowds. We learned last week that despite knowing in january how serious covid19 was, President Trump has been working to down play this is acrisis and on fri night, we learned that trump political operatives in hhs Communications Office have been manipulating cdcs flag ship for months to align with that messaging. Dr. Redfield, did anyone at cdc advise the president to down play this crisis . No. Did you agree with the president s decision to down play it . Im not going to comment on that, but no one advised the president to down play this crisis. Well, understanding the dangers, why have you not done more to push back on President Trumps political interference and his efforts to down play this . I want to make it really clear, senator, and i appreciate your question and the opportunity that, the respect for the science at cdc. At no time has the scientific integrity of the mmwor been compromise and i can say that under my watch, it will not be compromised. Well, i understand
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19 as we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying to build a plane while we were flying the plane, and that is a challenging, challenging thing to de
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and human services, education, and related agencies will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19. As we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country, we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. Pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying
Coronavirus pandemic with dr. Redfield. [inaudible chatter] appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, education, and related agents these will come to order. Witnessesthank our for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19. Challengednue to be by this pandemic in the country, we know that 195,000 961 americans have died as part of the pandemic and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this