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Happening now, breaking news.

Nominations scrapped.

Just minutes before President Trump's picked to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was set to testify up on Capitol Hill, the White House has just pulled his nomination.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

Pamela Brown is off today. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the Situation Room.

This is CNN Breaking News. And we begin with the breaking news. President Trump's picked to lead. The CDC was set to testify right now up on Capitol Hill, but just moments ago, the White House pulled his nomination.

Let's start our coverage this hour with CNN White House reporter Elena Trin and CNN medical correspondent Meg Terrell.

Elena, first of you over at the White House. Tell our viewers what happened.

That's right, Wolf, what we learned that moments ago, as you said, the White House had

pulled the nomination of Dave Weldon, his nominee, the president's nominee, to serve as the director

of the CDC, to Trump administration officials, told me who were familiar with that decision.

Now, Weldon was actually slated this morning to appear before the Senate Help Committee

for Senate Health and Education and Labor, et cetera, to appear for his confirmation hearing.

However, they said that they had canceled that after learning of his withdrawal. Look, when I

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