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Intelligence Matters

"Best Of" Intelligence Matters: Anthony Fauci

Intelligence Matters

CBS News

(154991), News, Cbs, Politics, Government

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this revamped episode of Intelligence Matters — re-released while the world contends with the COVID-19 pandemic and the podcast has temporarily suspended new production — host Michael Michael reflects on a 2018 conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and, in 2020, leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Morell and Fauci discuss how pandemics and epidemics arise and how their spread can affect national and international security. 

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

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0:09.0

This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.

0:14.1

Brought to you by Lockheed Martin.

0:16.3

Your mission is ours.

0:18.0

I think the thing that is most threatening to us not only something that is deliberately

0:23.4

released by a bad actor, either a state or an individual working alone, would be something

0:29.6

that can spread widely and that's generally a respiratory infection and something that

0:35.0

is a high degree of morbidity and mortality.

0:40.7

Welcome to Intelligence Matters.

0:42.0

I'm Michael Morrell.

0:43.9

Because of the coronavirus outbreak, we here in Intelligence Matters are trying to do

0:48.0

our part at social distancing and we are not taping in the studio for the time being.

0:53.9

We are working on remote taping options and in the meantime we're going to bring you

0:57.7

what you, based on your feedback, have considered to be our best of episodes.

1:02.9

For each of those, we will add some commentary to keep it fresh and up to date.

1:07.3

This week we are reaching back in our archive to an episode we released on September 25,

1:12.3

2018, with a man who is now a household name in our country, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the

1:18.8

Director of the Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health.

1:24.3

I asked Dr. Fauci to come on the show back in 2018 because of my deep concern about the

1:29.6

threat posed to our society by either a natural occurring or by a man-made pathogen.

1:35.5

I think you will find the conversation interesting from a perspective of who Dr. Fauci is as

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