Turmoil at the CDC
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Happening now, turmoil at the CDC. |
| 0:04.0 | A new acting director in a raucous end office, |
| 0:06.9 | top officials resign after their director refused to step down, |
| 0:11.1 | prompting the White House to fire her. |
| 0:13.6 | New details emerging on what investigators have found out |
| 0:16.9 | about the Minneapolis shooter as we learn more |
| 0:19.8 | about the young victims. |
| 0:21.9 | And Cracker Barrel's 93-year-old co-founder is talking about that attempted rebrand using |
| 0:27.8 | words like bland and pitiful, plus new reporting on other changes the company is quietly making. |
| 0:35.4 | And Katrina, 20 years later, the dire warnings today that history could repeat itself. |
| 0:41.8 | Bless, we'll bring you never-before-seen photos of the devastation. You won't want to miss that. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Pamela Brown. |
| 0:50.7 | We'll blitzer is off and you're in the Situation Room. |
| 1:03.8 | Thank you. Pamela Brown, Wolf Blitzer is off and you're in the Situation Room. And breaking overnight upheaval at the Nation's Command Center for Public Health, |
| 1:08.0 | CNN has learned that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s deputy at the |
| 1:11.6 | Health and Human Services Department, Jim O'Neill, is set to become interim director of the |
| 1:16.1 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, a leadership crisis hangs over the CDC. Three |
| 1:22.2 | top leaders have quit to protest the firing of the former director. She reportedly clashed with Kennedy over vaccine policy. |
| 1:30.6 | Hundreds of CDC employees and supporters honored the resigning leaders with a clapout rally. |
| 1:42.4 | The departing officials say Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, undermine the agency's foundation and science. |
| 1:49.0 | What makes CDC great? |
| 1:52.0 | Are the people that make CDC up, the scientists, everyone that makes this a family, and it's a family that defends our country and the health of our children |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

