CDC in Chaos After Firings, Resignations and RFK's Anti-Science Attacks

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Howie Kurtz on CDC employees staging walkout in support of ousted leaders, misinformation spreading on Minneapolis shooter and Tulsi Gabbard outing the identity of undercover CIA officer. Follow Howie on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HowardKurtz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.7	It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.
0:36.6	Hey now.
0:41.0	Hope you have a great Labor Day weekend coming up. We've got a lot to get to today. Monday, Labor Day, I think I will not podcast on Monday. Sort of the last
0:48.6	official holiday of the so-called summer, although a lot of kids already back to school. So because I have a
0:55.2	thick stack of stuff here, I'm going to jump right in. Oh, by the way, I'll still be working
1:02.4	Sunday. I want to catch media buzz on Fox 11 Easter. Okay, I'm going to jump right in. Story
1:08.4	number one. A real TikTok by the New York Times of what's happening, the absolute chaos, the absolute
1:14.9	battle over the CDC.
1:19.5	RFK summoned Susan Menares, director of the Centers for Disease Control, to his office.
1:27.2	And there was an ultimatum.
1:28.8	She needed to fire career agency officials and commit to backing his advisors if they recommended
1:35.6	restricting access to proven vaccines or risk being fired herself.
1:43.1	This is according to a lot of insiders. That led to this sort of standoff.
1:49.7	CDC is already reeling from mass layoffs, a shooting this month that killed a police officer
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