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On this episode of Newt's World, as the COVID-19 global pandemic unfolded, my guest today was in

regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration and the drug and

diagnostic industries. He has an insider's knowledge of how level after level of American

government crumbled as the COVID-19 crisis advanced. In his new book, Uncontrolled Spread,

like COVID-19 crushed us on how we can defeat the next pandemic. Physician and former

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieh, shows how COVID-19 was able to

overtake America's pandemic preparations and outlines the steps we must take to protect against

the next outbreak. I'm very pleased to welcome my guest, Dr. Scott Gottlieh. He is a former

Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise

Institute, a regular contributor to CNBC and the CBS News program face the nation. He's a

healthcare investing partner at the venture capital firm, New Enterprise Associates and a

director of Pfizer-Rink and Illumina Inc. Dr. Gottlieh is an eternal medicine physician and a member

of the National Academy of Medicine. And if I might, Scott, let me open with what led you

to lay this out as a book. Thanks for having me. What I tried to do in the book was identify

what went wrong. But look more at the structural features of government that I think made us

excessively vulnerable to this pandemic and allowed this to be as bad as it was. This was always

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