‘The Skunk at the Picnic’: Dr. Anthony Fauci on Working for Trump

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🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. In many instances while advising the Trump administration on the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci was faced with a “difficult” situation. Yet he said he had never considered quitting. What was it like working under President Donald J. Trump? We listen in on a candid conversation between Dr. Fa

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0:26.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:34.5	This is the Daily.
0:35.5	Good afternoon.
0:36.5	Thank you for joining us today.
0:39.5	We are pleased to have Dr. Fauci here with us as part of the president's commitment
0:44.7	to have public health experts lead our communication with the American people about the pandemic.
0:51.0	One day into the Biden administration.
0:53.0	With that, I will turn it over to Dr. Fauci.
0:55.8	Thank you very much and I'm going to just spend a couple of minutes just summarizing
1:00.1	the status of where we are.
1:01.9	Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, returned to the White House
1:08.1	briefing room.
1:09.1	First of all, obviously we are still in a very serious situation.
1:12.3	I mean, to have over 400,000 deaths is something that is unfortunately historic in the very
1:19.7	bad sense.
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