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Brian Schatz: “The urgency of protecting people from the COVID-19 pandemic…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Published | Video Starts at 00:24

But I also take your point, Ms. Keller, that the jawboning occurred in the previous administration as well, and the fog of war, The urgency of protecting people from the COVID-19 pandemic does not entirely justify the way that federal government officials interacted with private sector companies. I'm just glad that we now have, in three dimensions, in real time, examples of both, both parties doing this. And so it's no longer theoretical that the door swings both ways in Washington. (00:24–00:48)

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Asserts that the federal government's interactions with private companies during the COVID-19 pandemic were not entirely justified.

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