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Katie Hobbs: “America is losing our place in being cutting edge and…”

Featuring: Katie Hobbs, Democratic | Governor of Arizona

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Why Arizona governor calls Trump's claim of a tie between Tylenol and autism 'junk science' #news

Published | Video Starts at 01:20

But number two, this is like junk science. And perhaps they're trying to distract. I don't want to ascribe motives. I don't know what the motives are. But the fact is that America is losing our place in being cutting edge and finding cures for diseases that impact everyone across the country. Cancer, Alzheimer's, so many terrible diseases that we are doing cutting edge research for. And the government is cutting all the funding for this. And we're not going to be on the cutting edge anymore. (01:20–01:32)

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Asserts that the U.S. is losing its leadership in medical research for disease cures.

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