The director of licensed disease control centers, Susan Monarez, endured numerous strange interrogations of the Republicans during a hearing before the Senate of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the Committee. But none was as weird as the question line, senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) launched his way, accusing the former official of lying about his latest conversations with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr., before the White House dismissed it.
Monarez was dismissed in August, just one month after being confirmed to lead the CDC by the Senate. She was the first CDC director to be confirmed by the Senate, in fact, thanks to a new requirement promulgated following the Pandemic COVID-19. She said publicly that she had been dismissed after RFK JR. put it pressure on the rubber of any vaccine recommendation which should be extinguished by the advisory committee for vaccination practices, which should meet for the first time tomorrow.
It was a problem for Monarez – and other people who believe in science – because this summer, RFK JR. It made the alarm at the time because RFK JR. is a notorious anti -vacuum and undertakes to convince the public of its long -standing belief, without foundation and demystified that there is a kind of link between vaccines and autism.
He also promised the president of the Senate of the Aid Committee, Bill Cassidy (R-La), that he would not do exactly what he did, in order to guarantee Cassidy’s confirmation vote.
“He just wanted the approval of the coverage,” said Monarez on Wednesday, speaking of his meeting with RFK Jr. during which she told him that he had asked him to clarify all the recommendations of the panel, no matter what they were. “If I couldn’t get involved in the approval of each recommendations, I should resign.”
She said RFK Jr. had spoken to the White House to replace it if it did not accept its conditions. The White House dismissed her a few days later. During his hearing before the same committee earlier this month, RFK Jr. said he had only asked him to keep his mind open to the recommendations of the ACIP.
During the hearing on Wednesday, Mullin did not buy the events by Monarez. He accused the Office Office of Lying about his Conversations with RFK Jr. and even suggested during his question time that there was a kind of conversation recording which would prove that she was misleading the Congress.
“It was a recorded meeting, so you can testify in a way where you can prove that you lie or be honest with this committee,” Mullin told Monarez on Wednesday. “And I give you the opportunity to be honest here, because you really walk on the edges and not be honest.”
Monarez replied Mullin, saying that RFK Jr. told him that he could not trust him and she suggested that he should dismiss her if it was.
Mullin persisted. “I tell my children all the time:” You know, something I want from you, I can face any situation in which we enter as long as I know that you are 100% honest with me. The minute when I cannot say that you are honest with me, I can’t trust you. From there, everything you say is questioned “” said Mullin, “because your personality and your answers are not correct.”
It is not entirely clear, however, of what Mullin spoke while he was trying to make a strong aromin the ousted official. A little later in the day, Mullin told journalists on Capitol Hill that he was actually cheated and that there was no recording of the meeting.
Cassidy dismissed his republican colleague and said that he should withdraw his questioning line if there was in fact no recording.
Patel does not know who Dylann Roof is
During his second series of Congress hearings this week, this time before the Chamber’s Judicial Committee, the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, faced questions on a certain number of subjects, in particular the investigation of his office on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the management by the Doj of his examination of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
But when he asked him questions about the mass shooting of the African Epicotal Epicopal Church of Emanuel in Charlestown, in South Carolina, in 2015, when nine black parishioners were killed, a patel did not remember the event.
The exchange speaks of itself.
In case the patel needs recycling, here is an in -depth piece that my colleague Hunter Walker published earlier this year about mass shooting. Of course, it had a deep impact on the parishioners and the family of the victims; Four men in this orbit launched political careers following the attack on the white supremacist. Our story focused on how, thanks to the public service, they are struggling with what happened that day.
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The GOP helps Trump to continue the deployments of the insane national guard
After the Trump administration apparently fell off its threats from sending troops from the National Guard to Chicago like any other climbing of the Trump War with the Blue Cities Рall under the guise of its assertion that it must suppress crime in areas led by elected democrats РLes R̩publicains have offered Trump opportunities to bend power in red states so that it can continue to do the charame.
The representative Max Miller (R-OH) earlier this week asked the Ohio Republican Governor Mike Dewine, consider sending troops from the State National Guard to the City of Cleveland, supposed to help repress the crime there. This occurs after Dewine announced last week that some of the Ohio National Guard troops he sent to Washington, DC as part of the bending of Trump’s performance power, would remain until November.
“Some will say that bringing it to the National Guard is an extreme measure. I would say that allowing anarchy to continue without control is much more extreme. The security of our citizens is not negotiable,” said Miller in an editorial of the Washington Times.
All of this comes after Trump promised to send troops from the National Guard to other red areas of the country, such as Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, in Louisiana, after seemingly standing from his threatening chicago while the governor of Illinois, JB PRITZKER, promised to challenge any deployment of the National Guard there in court.
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