Surrounded by these big tobacco representatives, President Trump at the moment calls the FDA commissioner and tells them to rescind the regulations. He calls up Dr. Oz, all this is happening immediately, tells him to rescind the regulations. The FDA commissioner resigns in protest. He said in good conscience he couldn't do this. He couldn't be part of this kind of corruption. But on Friday, the FDA announced that it was bypassing all traditional rulemaking to adopt the exact policy that the tobacco executives asked for the weekend before. (27:22–27:28)
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Asserts that the FDA commissioner resigned in protest over policy changes.
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