And you can say the same thing about some of the folks now in these federal agencies, like a Dr. Bhattacharya. Huge, huge amount of invective had been hurled his way. Bogus attacks. I mean, They were attacking [Dr. Bhattacharya] when he was up for confirmation because he wrote a Wall Street Journal op ed at the very beginning of COVID saying the range of fatalities could be anywhere from 20,000 to millions. And they were trying to say Dr. Bhattacharya predicted 20,000 deaths from COVID which that's not what he said. It's a deliberate lie to try to smear the guy and to try to derail his nomination. (57:25–57:47)
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