House hearing just now: Dr. Fauci publicly contradicting talking points from WH and VP's office. !!

[riversedge]

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This hearing has been remarkable. Dr. Fauci publicly contradicting talking points from WH and VP's office. Really underlying the severity of the situation we're in right now. Turning point, in my mind. First public appearance where we're really getting somewhat of a full picture.

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Fauci at House Oversight Hearing: "Q: Is the worst yet to come? Dr. Fauci: Yes... Bottom line it's going to get worse."

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"The bottom line: It is going to get worse," Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top U.S. health official, told lawmakers Wednesday at a hearing that quickly devolved into a partisan fight over the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak

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I believe we can still mitigate the #coronavirus spread in the United States. But to do so we need sufficient testing to identify & contain the virus. Right now we don’t have that & time is running out.

Below is the warning from Dr. Fauci of the @realDonaldTrump
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Dr. Fauci's response when asked how many people will get and/or die from COVID-19 in the U.S.:

"If we are complacent and don't do really aggressive containment and mitigation, the number could go way up...many, many millions."

Trump has spent WEEKS downplaying the crisis.

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[elleng]

2. 'quickly devolved into a partisan fight over the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus'

Let's use the idiots' 'responses' against all of them, early and OFTEN.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Like many figures who testified at the impeachment hearing, Fauci is a longtime civil servant.

Who has served both Republican and Democratic administrations.

He's more interested in putting the truth out as opposed to playing politics.

I'm sure he will be promptly demonized by the Trumpists as being the "Deep State."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. From Wikipedia:

Anthony S. Fauci

{snip}

Anthony Stephen Fauci was born on December 24, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York, to Stephen A. Fauci and Eugenia A. Fauci, who owned a pharmacy in which his father worked as the pharmacist, his mother and sister worked the register, and Fauci delivered prescriptions. He is of Italian descent and grew up Catholic. He graduated from Regis High School in New York City and went on to attend the College of the Holy Cross and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1966. He then completed an internship and residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

In 1968, he came to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI) in NIAID. In 1974, he became Head of the Clinical Physiology Section, LCI, and in 1980 was appointed Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, a position he still holds. In 1984, he became Director of NIAID, which has the responsibility for an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research on infectious and immune-mediated illnesses.

If he became a federal worker in 1968, he came aboard when there was a pension system. With 52 years in, he probably cannot be stripped of his pension.

It was the first thing I thought of: Trump angrily firing Fauci for insubordination. Well, of course Trump would have a subordinate announce the firing via an email.

[malaise]

4. This is huge

Rec

[riversedge]

8. yes. I wonder how long Dr. F will have his job.??

[machoneman]

19. In 5-4-3-2-1 seconds! I do hope they try and muzzle him....

..as doing so will backfire spectacularly!

[Danascot]

24. ... and the Director of the CDC

CDC Director Condemns Trump's 'China Virus' Tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142444967

[Squinch]

26. Yeah. He's gone. I give it less than a week.

[Yonnie3]

5. Trump officials cut testimony short at coronavirus hearing

Were they needed at the White House or did the White House need them to stop testifying?

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/487014-trump-officials-cut-testimony-short-at-coronavirus-hearing

Top Trump administration officials on Wednesday cut short their testimony at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the response to the coronavirus, with the White House saying they were needed at a meeting focused on the spreading virus.

Committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said at the start of the hearing that it would end an hour and a half early because President Trump called an “emergency” meeting with the witnesses, who are leading the government’s coronavirus response.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were testifying at the hearing. Both are members of the coronavirus task force.

“This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President Pence have called our witnesses to an emergency meeting at the White House,” Maloney said. “We don't know the details, just that it is extremely urgent.”

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[shanti]

14. Called back early

to be fired.

[Ligyron]

27. Yeah, ya gotta wonder if they were called back before or after telling the truth.

[2naSalit]

6. This needs to go viral!

[riversedge]

16. sure does.

[GusBob]

9. He will be fired today

[ScratchCat]

10. If Trump fires this man

Then I expect every single elected Democrat to be on the stairs tomorrow morning demanding Trump immediately resign. This will be a "red line" for me with Democrats.

[Brainfodder]

11. No carpet big enough?

K&R

Good luck to all reasonable peoples in this actual crisis!

[Golden Raisin]

12. Thank goodness. We need the authoritative voice of Science

speaking out oud and clear instead of the amateur, lying incompetents of the Trump White House/regime and their Republican congressional supporters.

[Chainfire]

13. Reuters story today

About Trump having information that our health agencies develop classified as secret.

Trump needs to be playing with paper dolls in a rubber room.

[Hotler]

22. Need to find a way to convict him of treason. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

15. Classifying everything on CV. This will come back to bite rump and cronies in the ass, big time...

(pardon the language). The time is here to not classify facts, but instead get them out into the public forum so all can have the same information and act accordingly. States on now on their own. The Fed has been effectively muzzled and stifled by rump and cronies. This is treason, plain and simple. Do no harm to fellow Americans. I thought that this is the long term goal of all Americans, republican or democratic, but I guess not.

Every repug should be nailed to the wall. rump and every rump crony should be nailed to the wall. This is of the highest level of government irresponsibility in protecting the health of all Americans.

[crickets]

17. K&R for visibility.

[GeorgeGist]

18. About Time!

[ancianita]

20. Yep. That's what professionals and experts do -- talk back. Promote AN Authority over IN Authority.

[ancianita]

21. Isn't this the hearing that suddenly ended b/c the WH called these guys for an "emergency" meeting?

[scipan]

23. Link to complete hearing pt 1:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?470224-1/federal-health-officials-testify-coronavirus-outbreak-response

[GulfCoast66]

25. He had no fucks left to give.

Standing around with Pence and his incompetent crew he is forced into the party line.

The minute he is put under oath he tells the unvarnished truth.

He is a civil servant who is in his 70s. He can be reassigned and they can’t stop him from retirement.

Then he could go to the media daily.

I think his testimony is the reason they are changing from denying to pretending to take it seriously.

[Ligyron]

28. If this virus turns out to be as bad as experts are predicting and with Trump's screw ups?

Add to it a bear market and he may just be done politically.

[comradebillyboy]

29. The Public Health Service officer sittting behind him

looks very uncomfortable.