You know, when he did this mass firing in the Centers for Disease Control, he ended up firing everybody in the childhood lead poisoning division. When Milwaukee Public Schools had a lead crisis and 1800 school children were displaced, When they called the CDC for help, they were turned down. There was no one there to answer the phone because he discharged them and then he lied about it to me. (03:06–03:10)
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Asserts that the CDC did not respond to Milwaukee's request for help during the lead crisis.
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