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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 6 min read
🩺 📺 WATCH: Axios' @margarettalev and @mmfernandez_ host a conversation on what's next for ensuring access to quality health care, feat. @RepRaulRuizMD and @DrMichelleBIO.

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@margarettalev @mmfernandez_ @RepRaulRuizMD @DrMichelleBIO .@RepRaulRuizMD On the obstacles that may prevent some people from getting a vaccine: "I can tell you, by far, it's not vaccine hesitancy. It is a lack of resources and know-how and being able to overcome the barriers that already exist in an underserved community..." Image
@margarettalev @mmfernandez_ @RepRaulRuizMD @DrMichelleBIO .@RepRaulRuizMD: "Diversity in trials will help motivate, empower institutions to recruit more minority populations, women and other understudied groups in order to ensure that when we do have a treatment or medication, that they also work for those individuals." Image
@margarettalev @mmfernandez_ @RepRaulRuizMD @DrMichelleBIO .@DrMichelleBIO: "If you look at what's available to physicians today, there are not a lot of clinical options for diseases that are ravaging minority communities...so the true answers for disadvantaged communities are still on the research shelf." Image

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7 Oct
NEW: Senate panel releases most detailed report yet on Trump's DOJ pressure campaign to overturn 2020 election results trib.al/UWqBMnz
Key findings:

1. Trump directly raised discredited claims of election fraud and asked why DOJ wasn't doing more to address them in at least nine calls and meetings with acting AG Jeffrey Rosen and/or Deputy AG Richard Donoghue. axios.com/trump-doj-pres…
2. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows asked Rosen to launch fraud investigations based on at least four unsubstantiated claims, including a conspiracy theory alleging that electoral data was changed in Italian facilities with the knowledge of the CIA. axios.com/trump-doj-pres…
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6 Oct
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen gave rare insight into the company’s operations during her Senate testimony.

Here are 4 takeaways from the hearing:

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1. Facebook knows that some of its platforms are harmful to certain populations, including teenagers — but targets them anyways, Haugen says.

During the hearing, she proposed increasing the minimum age for anyone using social media from 13 to 17.

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2. Democrats and Republicans both agree Facebook should be regulated — and Haugen called on lawmakers to make it happen.

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6 Oct
WATCH: @joannmuller hosts a conversation on what's next in the development of autonomous vehicles, featuring Rep. @cathymcmorris and @JohnDeere CTO Jahmy Hindman.
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Rep. @cathymcmorris: "We are going to move to driverless cars. It is our future, and it may be as big as when we moved from horse and buggy to the first Model T Ford way back when."
Rep. @cathymcmorris: "This is the time, this should be the Congress to strike a deal and move forward on a national framework for autonomous vehicles."
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5 Oct
🎤 Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is tugging on the heart strings of Taylor Swift fans with new digital ads highlighting rival Glenn Youngkin's bad blood with the music star.
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While Youngkin was co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, he helped fund the sale of Swift’s record label, Big Machine Label Group.

Swift has complained publicly about her battle with the Carlyle Group and Scooter Braun over the rights to her songs.
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The McAuliffe campaign told Axios the ads will be micro-targeted to those who are Googling Swift’s name in Virginia ahead of the Nov. 2 election.
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5 Oct
WATCH: @sarafischer, @AxiosNick and @AjaWMoore discuss the value of workforce development in a rapidly changing job landscape, featuring Sen. @MarkWarner, @RepAdams and @SpelmanCollege President Mary Schmidt Campbell.

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@sarafischer @AxiosNick @AjaWMoore @MarkWarner @RepAdams @SpelmanCollege .@MarkWarner on the need for federal investment in workforce development: "I think regardless of what we end up with on reconciliation, we're going to have to come back and revisit this workforce development issue in a much, much broader way."
.@SpelmanCollege President Mary Schmidt Campbell: "It's really imperative for those of us who are in the fields of education to think about how we educate for the future. Whatever job exists now could potentially disappear in the next five years."
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3 Oct
1/ JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon answers a speed round of questions for #AxiosOnHBO, covering:

🤝 Trump vs. Biden
💼 Best CEOs
🤑 Bitcoin
🇺🇸 Best + worst of government
2/ 🤝 Comparing Trump vs. Biden

On Trump: "Very different alone than public. He's not that same way in the public."

On Biden: "Same in public in private and is very civil. ... Wants to help everybody."
3/ 💼 Best CEO not named Jamie Dimon?

"Jeff Bezos ... Tim Cook."

On what makes them great: "Innovation, drive. Serving customers."
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