Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #FaceTheNation

Most recents (15)

On #FaceTheNation, Trump's #WarpSpeed chief Moncef Slaoui now trying to claim credit for @POTUS @JoeBiden's success w/ #COVID19vaccinations.

Reminder: Trump wanted much lower $$ for #vaccines R&D. Congress went higher with $8.3B/rejected Trump's $2.5B.
spglobal.com/marketintellig…
Another reminder: Trump had no idea #NIH & $MRNA had started on a #COVID19 vaccine in mid-January 2020 based on research funded by the @BarackObama administration.
spglobal.com/marketintellig…

Trump himself claims he first heard of #coronavirus in late January.

#FaceTheNation #FTN
Also, NIH & U.S. companies were long into #COVID19 #vaccines R&D before Moncef Slaoui came on the scene with Operation #WarpSpeed.

Slaoui doing a lot of rewriting of history on #FaceTheNation today.

#FTN #COVID19vaccines #COVID19 #COVIDvaccinations #OWS
Read 4 tweets
The U.S. surpassed 350,000 reported deaths from #COVID19 last night.
gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashbo…

And Trump, Pence & Alex Azar are doing what about it today?

Where is the accountability for these deaths?

#MaskUp
As of yesterday #CDC says 13,071,925 doses of #COVID19 #vaccines distributed but only 4,225,756 administered.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…

Recall, Alex Azar pushed back against any additional funds for states to administer vaccines. #HHS was also slow to distribute #CARESAct funds.
Fauci on #ThisWeek: "There's no running away from the numbers."
"The deaths are real deaths."

Meanwhile, Trump remains in denial & continues to undermine #CDC's #publichealth experts.


#COVID19 #pandemic #vaccines
Read 13 tweets
WaPo:

The CDC "had a contact tracing team ready to go...but had NOT been asked to mobilize."

Dr Conley:

"The White House medical unit, in conjunction with the collaboration with CDC and local state health departments, are conducting all contact tracing per CDC guidelines."
2. WaPo also casts doubt on Dr. Conley's claim that the White House has engaged "local state health departments" in contact tracing.

WaPost: "Officials in Minnesota, Ohio and New Jersey, where Trump held events in recent days, said they haven’t heard from the White House."
Read 5 tweets
On #FaceTheNation, @ScottGottliebMD says this is the "wrong move at the wrong time" for #HHS & could be perceived as bullying #FDA & eroding its independence in midst of #COVID19 #pandemic.
It could call into question all rules signed off by lower-level people at FDA/HHS.
And by the way, @chucktodd had @SecAzar on @MeetThePress today and didn't even bother to ask him about this report. Not a single question about it.
nytimes.com/2020/09/19/hea… #FDA #NIH #CDC #CMS #COVID19 #vaccines
Also today #MTP when @chucktodd asked @SecAzar about why he hired someone without any health care/scientific experience whatsoever, Todd let Azar off the hook completely with his response that "I'm not going to get into personnel matters."

What CEO would get away with that?
Read 4 tweets
<Thread>

New from me and @DaniSchulkin:

Bill Barr recently tried to sneak in the idea that the U.S. used military force without a governor's consent in 1989.

That's FALSE, and Barr should know it. He was there at the time.

justsecurity.org/71535/bill-bar…
2. Our report is based on interviews with former officials who served with Barr at the time, plus the archival record.
3. On the left:

Bill Barr trying to use Virgin Islands operation to justify deployment of military force without governors' consent (#FacetheNation interview)

On the right:

White House statement at time of Virgin Islands operation saying they had governor's consent.
Read 4 tweets
"Even if these allegations proved to be true, there was no spreading of the disease from this," @SecAzar said.

How does he know that?
In the same interview, Azar again claims he's being "radically transparent." cbsnews.com/news/transcrip…
#COVID19 #coronavirus #FaceTheNation #FTN
@SecAzar A number of members of Congress have said there's no reason why #HHS, #NIH #CDC officials hold those behind-closed-doors #COVID19 briefings on Capitol Hill & they should be open to the public.
@SecAzar keeps insisting he's being "radically transparent." So why close briefings?
@SecAzar .@SecAzar notes don't yet know how WA state man who died contracted #COVID19.
Yet, in same #FaceTheNation interview, Azar insists there was "no spreading of the disease" from ACF employees who may have been unprotected with proper PPE gear.
How does he know?
#coronavirus #FTN
Read 3 tweets
Lindsey Graham's stated intention to invest the FBI/DOJ in response to McCabe's book is GOP pushback at the Dem Congress' invest into the Trump Administration & OSC inves into Graham's rec't of RU campaign $ from the NRA. Best offense, Senator? #facethenation #SundayMorning
He's talking about FISA Warrants & "the Dossier" again. Dredging up the stuff that the GOP Cong got nowhere with, that the Dem Cong now have to re-invest bc of GOP obstruction is a huge politically motivated waste of time & $. Graham shouldn't be talking @ DEM partisan motives!
What exactly does Lindsey Graham think that he'll find out here? Does he think that some sitting Cabinet Members will admit to discussing enacting the 25th while still working for Trump? If it happened, Graham already knows @ it anyway. This is distraction
nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/…
Read 3 tweets
This is perjury, plain and simple.

Feel free to tag your Senator in the replies and tell him/her what you think of the @GOP burying the record of—and rushing to confirm—this extremely crooked nominee.
As the incontrovertible evidence of #Kavanaugh’s perjury in 2004, 2006 and 2018 piles up, it’s hard to argue with @brianefallon’s suggestion that #Democrats make a criminal referral to the Justice Department. #NoSCOTUSVote
“By his own standard, Kavanaugh should clearly be impeached,” writes Lisa Graves in @slate. Graves wrote some of the stolen memos that Kavanaugh lied to the Senate about. (via @maddow) #ImpeachKavanaugh #BlockBrett
Read 8 tweets

Related hashtags

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!