I'm a doctor. So I see patients. I'm a clinician. And when I was in medical school and I finished, we raised our hands and made that Hippocratic oath that said first to do no harm. And I'm seeing CDC being transformed into a weapon where people are not allowed to share scientific data and

that that scientific data is potentially going to be contaminated more and more with ideology.

And so as a clinician, as a doctor, I see that that is harm.

Dr. Dimitri Daskalakis explaining why he decided to resign from the CDC yesterday.

Several of his colleagues are also leaving the agency after the Trump administration moved

to fire the director earlier this week.

The question is, what happens next with the CDC?

Also ahead, we'll preview a hearing later this morning for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa

Cook as she sues the Trump administration to keep her job.

The question is, will there be any resolution today?

Plus, another hostile crowd for a Republican lawmaker, this time in Alabama, leading to the

congressman leaving the town hall through the back door.

The question is, our Republicans is looking forward to returning to Washington so that they

don't have to face their constituents.

It's way too early for this, folks.

It's Friday and good morning and welcome to wait too early, the show that always, always appreciates a long holiday weekend.

I'm Sam Stein in for Ali Vitale on this Friday, August 29th, and we'll start with the news.

Crowds of current and former CDC staffers and their supporters lined the streets in Atlanta yesterday to honor the officials who resigned in protest after the ousting of CDC

director Susan Menares. Now we're learning more details about what led to her firing in the

exodus that followed. As NBC News reports, an escalating conflict over an influential vaccine committee was one of the final straws.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had reconstituted the committee by firing its members

and appointing new members, including vaccine skeptics.

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