Top Biden Science Adviser Who Was Accused Of Toxic Management Resigns

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The White House, which has known about Eric Lander's behavior for weeks following an internal investigation, faces questions about why Biden failed to fire the Cabinet-level official sooner. Also: 900,000 Americans have died of COVID. As states give up on mitigation efforts, what does the future of the pandemic look like?

This episode: White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, congressional reporter Claudia Grisales, and health reporter Will Stone.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Sarah from Baltimore, Maryland.
0:02.2	I'm currently baking blueberry muffins to send with my daughter to daycare tomorrow
0:06.2	on celebration of her birthday. This podcast was recorded at.
0:10.3	It is Tuesday, 252pm on February 8th.
0:13.9	Things may have changed by the time you heard this,
0:16.3	but we will officially have a one-year-old on our hands.
0:19.6	Okay, here's the show.
0:24.5	Oh my goodness.
0:27.6	And baking muffins. That is so cute.
0:30.0	That's a great mom. I like to buy.
0:34.9	I am with you, Aisha.
0:36.8	A buy. Yeah.
0:38.4	I can buy some blueberry muffins.
0:40.0	Yeah, I can buy them really well.
0:43.4	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:46.0	I'm Aisha Roscoe. I cover the White House.
0:48.1	I'm Claudigh D'Sunley. So I cover Congress.
0:50.9	So we're going to do a check-in about COVID and
0:54.4	we're doing stand with the pandemic. But before that, we want to talk quickly about Eric Lander.
1:01.1	He is the top science advisor to President Biden,
1:04.4	director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
1:08.8	And he abruptly announced that he would resign today.
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