You know, my job as HHS secretary is to tell the truth to people and then to let them to make up their own minds. For an agency like this to be effective, it has to have public credibility. And Right now [the agency] has very little public credibility because of all the lies that were told during COVID. People who said, I better tell people lies if it's going to get them to do something that I feel that they ought to do. Okay. Oh, it's called the noble lie. (00:48–21:53)
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Asserts that the agency has low public credibility due to lies told during COVID.
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