Pres. Trump says CDC director doing a “very good job”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Despite CNN’s reporting that Dr. Redfield, the CDC director, is on the hot seat, Trump says he’s doing a “very good job.” Kathleen Sebelius, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, tells Anderson Cooper it’s a terrible time for tension with the CDC, who are “gold standard epidemiologists.” Plus, as many fans are desperate for sports to return, Charles Barkley, former NBA player and Turner Sports analyst, is hosting “The Match” to raise money for COVID-19 relief. It’s a golf tournament featuring some of the most well-known athletes in the world: Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning vs. Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady. He joins AC360 to preview the event. Airdate: May 20, 2020 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	And good evening, a lot to get to tonight from hopeful news on vaccines with all the
0:05.8	appropriate notes of caution that are going to come with it.
0:08.4	To everything on the president's mind, it seems except the pandemic.
0:11.6	And even when he was talking about the pandemic, the one that today recorded the single
0:15.1	most cases in a 24-hour period around the world, according to WHO, the one which has now
0:21.0	taken more than 93,000 lives in this country alone, some of what the president said was
0:26.2	in the context of threatening state governors if they don't arrange voting in their state
0:30.3	in a way that he thinks will help his reelection.
0:33.3	We'll talk about that tonight, chiefly, because it's a strange thing to be obsessing
0:36.7	over in the middle of a pandemic as is sidelineing or marginalizing the nation's top public health
0:42.1	experts.
0:43.1	At the very moment, all 50 states are lifting outbreak-related restrictions in one form
0:47.5	or another.
0:48.5	Today, the president's press secretary gave a briefing.
0:50.8	Dr. Anthony Fauci did not.
0:52.4	Dr. Deborah Birx did not.
0:54.2	The CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, they did not either.
0:58.5	Or he did not either.
0:59.5	According to a senior administration official, informal conversations have been taking
1:03.0	in place about, quote, what to do, unquote, about Dr. Redfield.
1:07.1	Another source telling CNN that he's worried he might have a target on his back and that
1:11.0	senior official tells us the director's fear is not unfounded.
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