You've come to Congress and justified destroying the CDC by saying you want to just restore the CDC's mission to focusing on infectious diseases. Yet you're also gutting the very offices that keep American families safe from disturbing and deadly … We already are [the world authority on infectious disease policy]. … full time probably can handle that trouble. In terms of prion disease, it's very, very rare. I beg to differ. Here is the issue, and we see this across the board with cdc. (04:46–04:51)
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