Dr Anthony Fauci Talks: Covid, China and Online Misinformation

Americast

BBC

News, Government, Politics

4.3 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Americast speaks to the doctor who has served seven US presidents about the US coronavirus response, clashes with Donald Trump and his family being targeted by trolls.

And the team discusses the president's troubled, son Hunter Biden. Just what is on THAT laptop?

Americast is presented by North America editor Sarah Smith, Today host Justin Webb, the BBC's Social Media and Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring, and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.

Find out more about our "undercover voters" here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63530374.

Email Americast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments and send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, to 03301239480.

This episode was made by Phil Marzouk and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	One day on this podcast, we are really hoping that we will be talking to an 80 year old man
0:09.6	from Delaware, but he wasn't available to speak to us today.
0:12.8	So instead, we're going to be talking to an 81 year old man from New York.
0:17.1	He is not any 81 year old though.
0:18.8	He is a physician scientist.
0:20.6	He is an immunologist.
0:22.2	He's worked with every single US president since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
0:26.9	And in fact, back in 2008, President George W. Bush even awarded him the Presidential
0:32.1	Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian award in the US for his work on the AIDS Relief
0:37.0	Program.
0:38.0	This is America's Stinged Conversation with Anthony Fauci.
0:40.8	America's Stinged American.
0:44.1	America's Stinged American.
0:45.1	From BBC News.
0:46.1	The mistard all for two words.
0:48.3	May in America.
0:50.7	My name is Ted Cruz and my pronouns are kiss my ass.
0:54.7	Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit.
0:57.3	And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all.
0:59.9	We saw freedom in our very way of life wither on the vine.
1:04.8	When 9-11 happened, we didn't ban planes.
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