[inaudible conversations] i would ask her guess to take their seats. The subcommittee on oversight investigations will come to order. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement to todays hearing is the first opportunity for congress to hear testimony from doctors mandy cohen since she was appointed to the centers for days Disease Control director in july. Dr. Cohen congratulations on your point maybe we are taking the reins of the cdc at a critical time you have a heavy task ahead. As i have said editor jan oversight hearing to cope with 19 pandemic revealed he we did not have the cdc we thought we had. I look forward to hearing how you plan to change that. This is an opportunity to hear firsthand about how the cdc is responding to the ongoing respiratory virus. Im particular interest in hearing about how the cdc is helping to mitigate the shortage of respiratory essential virus or are city immunization for all infants. We have heard reports that are as the cases are sharply in certai
the big one announcing result of fossil fuel emissions he has cancer, which he doesn t. president biden: you had to put on your windshield wipers to get oil slick off, that is why i and other people have cancer. griff: white house press shop scrambling, attempting a clean up telling fox news biden misspoke saying he was referring to past skin cancer that was removed as documented in his 2021 study. president biden: climate change is existential threat, this is an emergency and i will look at it that way, i said last week and i ll say it again loud and clear, as president, i will use my executive power to combat the climate crisis. griff: the president s approval rating plummets to 31%, the lowest of his presidency and quinnipiac found americans do not want him to run again with 54% of democrats saying, don t run joe. his critics think he is not focusing on the real problems. talk about a climate emergency, we ought to be talking about energy emergency, that is whe
Total was 23,000. Multiply that by three today, just four weeks later. And since late june there have been nine days of record new cases. 38 states are showing a spike in new infections. While the number of americans hospitalized is near the highest levels of the pandemic. In florida with more cases per capita than any other state a spokesperson for the miamidade mayor said that icu capacity is now over 100 , additionally the mayor of miami said the city could see a stayathome order within a week if things dont turn around and now learned that the white house is hiding key data of americans. The center for Public Integrity with a copy of the 359page report prepared for the White House Coronavirus task force. It says 18 states that are in the socalled red zone for new cases and Positivity Rates should roll back the reopenings. The White House Task force led by the president kept it secret hidden from states that so desperately need the information. As the president s top aides lie about
Use. But he is providing no Scientific Data to back up that claim. Here are the facts at this hour. The world has now surpassed 20 million confirmed coronavirus cases. The u. S. With 4 of the global population has 25 of the worlds case and more than 164,000 deaths, including a new singleday record, 276 deaths now reported in florida. The debate over School Reopenings is intensifying as students from the midwest down to florida return to the classroom. Dr. Anthony fauci is calling for a Universal School mask mandate as georgias Governor Brian Kemp says he will not institute any such order for his state. And today, russia is claiming, as we say, that they have a registered Coronavirus Vaccine ready for use, with president putin saying one of his daughters has already been inoculated. The alleged vaccine has no published data, no critical phase iii trial, and both the long term effects and safety concerns remain unclear. We are still on veep watch. This hour ill speak with Democratic Nati