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The Byron York Show

When The White House Can’t Handle The Truth

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

New White House press secretary Jen Psaki promised to bring “truth and transparency back to the briefing room.” President Biden promised to be guided by science in his decisions regarding the COVID pandemic. Now both of those vows are being put to the test on the question of reopening schools. This week, Biden’s new CDC […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the No Chit-Chit Podcast,

0:11.6

brought to you today by the Bradley Foundation and by Express VPN.

0:16.6

We're going to talk about both of those in a little bit, but first we want to get right

0:20.0

into it.

0:21.6

And I'm going to talk about two stories today.

0:24.8

The first is the White House and COVID.

0:28.8

And then the second is the aftermath of the January 6th riot at the Capitol.

0:35.1

They're both important stories in completely different ways.

0:39.0

So let's start out with the White House and COVID.

0:41.8

Now this has to do with how frank the White House is with the American people about the

0:51.1

various reasons it is making the decisions it makes on coronavirus policy.

0:58.5

So let's go back to January 21st.

1:01.2

It's the president's first full day in office.

1:05.1

The White House press secretary is Jen Socky and she begins her briefing by saying, quote,

1:11.8

when the president asked me to serve in this role, we talked about the importance of

1:16.9

bringing truth and transparency back to the briefing room.

1:21.5

Okay.

1:22.5

End quote.

1:23.5

So now we're getting to see how that might actually work.

1:27.7

So Socky's problem started on Wednesday.

1:32.2

The White House COVID response team held a teleconference for the press.

1:36.7

Okay.

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