Hi, this is Rooshan, on the way to the hospital in the rain to meet my wife Sarah as she's about to give birth to our first child.

What are you doing?

A mags are packed and we've got a Bluetooth speaker for our birthing playlist and possibly some podcasts along the way.

This podcast was reported on...

...204 PM on Tuesday, July 14th.

A lot of things may have changed, including Sarah and I's whole lives. Enjoy the show!

Oh, I hope that she didn't listen to our podcast during labor because she may hate us forever due to the association.

Well hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Asma Khalid, I cover the presidential campaign.

I'm Tamra Keith, I cover the White House.

I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.

So, yesterday, more than 60,000 new COVID cases were diagnosed.

And, you know, we're at a point where we are constantly seeing record numbers of new cases.

And yet throughout this crisis, the president continues to offer very little scientific guidance.

He was seen wearing a mask for the first time in public over the weekend.

But he's also continued to share conspiracy theories and misinformation on his Twitter feed.

And now, Tam, the administration has also started to criticize its most visible public health expert.

So, what's going on?

That's right. Dr. Anthony Fauci is the nation's leading infectious disease expert.

He's at the National Institutes of Health. He's also a very high profile member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Though one who has not been at the last couple of task force briefings and Fauci himself says he hasn't spoken to the president in weeks and weeks.

Over the weekend, the Washington Post published a story about Fauci was sort of a profile.

And in it, they said that the White House sent them a lengthy list of times that Fauci was wrong early on in the pandemic.

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