Questions Mount Over Whether Biden's Nominees Of Color Are Facing More Scrutiny

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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"Radical" and "dangerous": questions mount over whether President Joe Biden's nominees of color are facing more scrutiny. Sen. Hawley has voted no on every Biden cabinet nominee so far, denying blanket policy on opposing all of Biden's picks despite no vote on every cabinet pick so far. Hawley takes no issue with former President Donald Trump's lie that he won the election, saying, "he's going to say what he believes." Nikki Haley praises Trump after saying "he let us down." She also keeps changing her position when it comes to her former boss, Trump. Haley praises his "strong speech" despite saying that he had no future within the GOP. A former republican representative said that the GOP should treat Trump the way the the United States treated the Soviets; isolate and contain him. According to a source, Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump received the covid-19 vaccine at the White House in January. The CDC chief warns that recent progress could be wiped out by covid-19 variants. United States covid deaths has surpassed 514,000. A year ago, former Vice President Mike Pence said that the risk the virus posed to Americans was "low." A second Cuomo accuser rejects the governor's apology, saying, "These are not the actions of someone who simply feels misunderstood." 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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0:31.8	Out front next, resisting Biden's nominees, especially the nominees of color, is it about more than just their policies?
0:39.4	Plus, were they trying to hide it? Why are we just finding out now that former President Trump and
0:45.0	Melania Trump got COVID vaccines in January? And peddling Trump's lies is bad for business.
0:51.1	Just ask the CEO of Goya. Let's go out front.
0:57.5	Good evening, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin, in for Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight facing resistance. There are growing
1:01.4	questions tonight about why some of Biden's nominees, particularly nominees of color, are facing
1:07.4	fierce pushback from Republicans. Those nominees include Deb Holland, Biden's pick to lead the Interior Department,
1:14.2	Neeratandon, Biden's nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget,
1:18.1	and Vanita Gupta, Biden's choice for Associate Attorney General.
1:21.4	In each case, progressive groups say Republicans are trying to paint these women as extreme
1:26.6	or a threat to the country.
1:28.9	Senator Rick Scott calling Tandon a radical liberal.
1:32.2	And this is what Republicans are saying about Holland and Gupta.
1:37.0	I am troubled by many of Representative Holland's views, views that many in my home state of Wyoming would consider as radical.
1:45.2	Biden promised unity, but this is a dangerous appointee at a dangerous time.
1:50.8	Dangerous, they argue.
1:52.5	Former Democratic senators Mark and Tom Udall, who is from, who is from Holland's home state of New Mexico.
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