WHO WILL BE BLAMED FOR THE COVID CATASTROPHE?
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Over here in the U.S. speaking of covering your butt, it's scapegoat time. |
| 0:04.8 | Let's check out first, Javier Bacera. |
| 0:07.6 | He's the head of HHS here in the United States. |
| 0:10.5 | And here's the headline out of Washington Post. |
| 0:13.4 | It says White House frustrations grow over health chief Bacera's handling of the pandemic. |
| 0:18.3 | It says here, White House officials have grown so frustrated with top health official Javier |
| 0:23.1 | Bacera as the pandemic rages on that they have openly muse about who might be better in |
| 0:28.0 | the job, although political considerations have stopped them from taking steps to replace |
| 0:31.6 | him. |
| 0:32.6 | Officials involved in the discussion said it goes on. |
| 0:35.0 | It reads several administrations, several administration officials voice similar to |
| 0:39.2 | Bacera's leadership, although they would not do so on the record because they were not |
| 0:43.6 | authorized to speak with the media. |
| 0:45.5 | The health secretary quote is taking too passive a role in what may be the most defining |
| 0:50.3 | challenge to the administration said one of the senior administration officials. |
| 0:54.7 | Now this story from the Washington Post, this story is based on interviews with 28 senior |
| 1:00.4 | administration officials, health agency officials, outside advisors and experts, most of whom |
| 1:05.3 | spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail sensitive discussions. |
| 1:10.4 | Now just to recap, no one's doing anything because of politics and because they're too |
| 1:15.8 | scared to talk to the media. |
| 1:17.2 | All right, but what's so amazing about it, Javier. |
| 1:20.4 | First of all, I think I'll probably 90% of this audience, clearly I kind of have to throw |
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