CDC Director Fired & Fighting Back (08/28)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (08/28) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Joe Khalil from NewsNation comes on the show to talk about the CDC director being fired and fighting back. Draining the swamp is hard. Update on the DC federal employee who threw a sandwich at federal agents in DC.
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| 0:41.0 | It's the John Cobalt show. |
| 0:43.1 | Lou Penrose in for John Cobalt this week. |
| 0:45.4 | Good to have you along with us. |
| 0:47.8 | A departure, well, an attempt to dismiss |
| 0:51.4 | the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| 0:55.6 | CDC director Susan Menores was fired by the Trump administration, |
| 1:00.7 | and she's refusing to go. |
| 1:05.2 | She says, according to her lawyers, she refuses to rubber stamp unscientific reckless directives from her superior. |
| 1:13.7 | The White House has responded that she was not aligned with the president's agenda. |
| 1:18.7 | And she's the head of the CDC. |
| 1:20.7 | Joe Khalil is with News Nation. |
| 1:22.6 | He's their DC correspondent. |
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