After Hours with NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Full Measure After Hours
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, it's Cheryl Ackison. Welcome to the latest edition of Full Measure After Hours. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, Dr. J. Bottacharya, head of NIH and acting CDC director, tells about his reforms of a broken system and how he's launching a vaccine injury effort. |
| 0:23.2 | If you're a longtime viewer of full measure, you probably saw me interview Dr. J. Badacharya. |
| 0:28.9 | The first time was when he was just emerging from relative inconspicuousness at Stanford University. |
| 0:36.4 | He was a medical school professor and an esteemed |
| 0:38.9 | public researcher, but he went to the forefront of global controversies caused by COVID. He helped |
| 0:45.1 | get thousands of signatures on something that he helped create called the Great Barrington Declaration, |
| 0:51.2 | which rightly took on bad policies and misinformation pushed out by the government |
| 0:55.5 | at the time, including the lockdowns. For the offenses of being correct about all these things |
| 1:01.0 | he was talking about but being off narrative, he was targeted by then NIH leader Francis |
| 1:06.9 | Collins and his colleague at the National Institutes of Health, Allergy and Infectious |
| 1:11.9 | Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci. |
| 1:14.9 | Emails later revealed how these two men went after Badacharya and his colleagues. |
| 1:20.1 | The two officials orchestrated what they intended to be a devastating public takedown |
| 1:27.1 | of Batacharya and his colleagues. |
| 1:29.5 | That's from the email itself. |
| 1:31.5 | Now in what has to be one of the most remarkable turnabouts |
| 1:34.9 | in fortune and fate, |
| 1:36.7 | Dr. Bata Charya now heads that agency, NIH, |
| 1:40.5 | and says one of his missions is to make sure |
| 1:42.5 | not to do what those men before him did. |
| 1:45.6 | Here's my interview with Dr. Badacharya. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sharyl Attkisson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sharyl Attkisson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

