Fauci: Working with Biden is “liberating” compared to working with Trump

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Pres. Joe Biden rolled out a national strategy to combat Covid-19 in his first full day in office. Biden said his plan is “based on science, not politics” and was developed with input from Dr. Anthony Fauci and other experts. In his return to the White House briefing room, Dr. Fauci told reporters working with Biden is a “liberating feeling.” Dr. Leana Wen is an Emergency Room Physician and is the former Baltimore Health Commissioner. She tells Anderson Cooper the Biden administration’s goal to vaccinate 100 million people in the first 100 days isn’t an aspirational goal because the country is already vaccinating one million people a day right now. Plus, seven Senate Democrats filed an ethics complaint against Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and are called for an investigation into how their objections to the Electoral College votes may have contributed to inciting the Capitol Hill insurrection. Senator Mazie Hirono is one of those Democrats to call for the probe. She joins AC360 to discuss why she thinks there should be an investigation and says neither Senator has shown any contrition. Airdate: January 21, 2021 Guests: Dr. Leana Wen Sen. Mazie Hirono Ken Burns Doris Kearns Goodwin To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, Dave.
0:02.6	After the most joyous and upbeat moment for any new president, now comes all the rest,
0:06.4	all the tricky parts all at once.
0:08.1	Because when that day ended and this one began, we learned that another 4,200 and 29 Americans
0:13.4	had died of COVID.
0:15.0	So today facing a sagging economy, a potential impasse with Republican lawmakers who are already
0:19.6	questioning his commitment to bipartisanship and a Senate impeachment trial of the last
0:23.9	president, President Biden made COVID the focus, taking executive actions that don't require
0:29.1	congressional backing.
0:30.1	We signed a series of orders, memorandum directives aimed at boosting mass squaring, setting
0:36.7	up mass vaccination sites and using the Defense Production Act to make the supplies needed
0:41.6	to increase vaccine production.
0:43.5	The White House also released 198 page document outlining the new national COVID strategy and
0:49.4	of the seven goals it lays out, the one that comes first is perhaps the most telling.
0:53.4	It reads, Restore Trust with the American people.
0:56.4	And whether the president can do that, of course, remains to be seen and air commitment to
1:00.8	holding elected officials accountable on that score does not change from one administration
1:04.9	to the next.
1:06.2	That said, the contrast with the last president was certainly apparent today as this president
1:10.8	put the bad news first and did not gloss over it.
1:15.5	Let me be very clear.
1:17.3	Things are going to continue to get worse before they get better.
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