under in a pandemic from the obama administration but even more telling they had a playbook that rick wright helped to write you know that was finished in october 2019 just a couple of months before the the the pandemic you know we had our 1st covert patient test positive so the plan was there but they refused to take it off the shelf which makes it even more damning and disturbing rick you're one of the heroes in this documentary but there were others though the doctors in seattle i mean even the patients who were you know in this world of confusion but you saw them voluntarily going through this process when did you know that there was a divergence between the respect for science and the process and and really the political order taking us a different direction. well steve is sad to say but i think from the very beginning i mean because we had practice in exercise and reviewed everything that would be required to respond to pandemic just a couple months before this crisis really started emerging we all knew and it was really in a meeting in late january when our secretary of health and hum

rick wright was the director of biomedical advance research and development authority called barta.ing a covid vaccine. he was ousted and then assigned a narrower role and days later filed a whistle-blower, accusing the administration of choosing croneyism over science. this is his first interview since his tuesday resignation. joining us now is rick wright. >> thanks for having me. >> so it's been a week since president trump has been diagnosed with coronavirus or since we found out. he has been ignoring cdc guidelines to isolate. he has been going into the west wing, the oval office, talking about how he wants to get back on the campaign trail, resume rallies. what's your reaction? >> it's unfortunate but absolutely predictable. this is a president who has refused to follow public health guidelines and, unfortunately, has encouraged others to follow those same same guidelines. sooner or later, he was going to get infected and his entire family and those around him were also going to get infected. we're seeing what we would have predicted play out in real life. >> speaker pelosi ha

immunologist in the united states has quit his job over president trump's response to the virus dr rick wright said the administration was ignoring scientific expertise. now highlighting some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour fresh clashes have erupted between azerbaijan and armenia in and around the disputed region of new going to the fighting comes ahead of talks between the u.s. france and russia aimed at securing a cease fire between the 2 former soviet republics. residents of mexico's yucatan peninsula are cleaning up after hurricane delta the storm packed winds of up to 17575 kilometers per hour there were no reports of deaths and the damage was less severe than initially feared the storm is now heading towards the u.s. gulf coast. the resort of in northern cyprus has been reopened after being abandoned for more than 40 years the beach front was deserted after turkey invaded the region in 1974 splitting the mediterranean island into the northern cypriot from. proposed the reopening which is backed by. the 2020 nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the

has quit his job over president trump's response to the virus dr rick wright said that the administration was ignoring scientific expertise. with germany and other european countries moving to contain a rising number of infections china is reporting that the pandemic there is under control beijing says that it has beaten the pandemic and that it could have a vaccine ready by the end of the year we go to beijing in just a moment 1st this report on a crowded train station yet people here are not afraid of getting infected there are a cowardly just a couple of 100 active cases in china it has already celebrated its victory over covered 19. now china wants to be the 1st country to develop a successful vaccine. for companies have vaccines in stage 3 testing some trials could be finished by the end of the year. but several 100 people have already been vaccinated since july and usually it was military and health personnel but now it's teaches train conductors and journalists. here today we have completed preclinical an animal tests that fulfills the conditions required to approve the product. ca

therapeutic developments link in your testimony you are led to a press release and discussion by rick wright the very scientist who in fact, called the whistleblower complaint over political interference. and so, getting credit to the leadership of president trump is problematic here and i would like to also enter into the record three reports on the president's budget cuts proposed year after year after year. as soon as trump entered office he proposed a 22% budget cut to the nih another hhs and then he double digit budget cuts even after president trump knew that the coronavirus was or had been briefed on how deadly it was and in february 2020 he proposed a 7% cut to the nih. how do you give credit to president trump for any of this and the achievements that the scientists when he is cut their budget proposed cuts to the budget year after year after year? >> president trump is back this historic effort and it pains me that you denigrate operation warp speed and the effort happening there. these are career people from defense department from hhs and nih driving this. >> correct. it is white

we will speato director rick rowley and pulitzer prize winning writer lawrence wright. ghtwill also talkk to wri "t" a novebout about a deadly pandemic written before the outbreak of covid-19. is the global dental tops one million, we go to india, which has just become the second nation to hit 6 million confirmed covid-19 cases after the u.s. we will speak to journalist rana ayyub, who was recently hospitalized after testing positive for covid. the privileged people in indidia, they have hand sanitizers. underprprivileged, about 50%, cannot afford it. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quaranante rereport. i'm amy goodman.n. fafar-right t groups are conting to celebrate president trump's debate performance after he refused to disavow white supremacists and urged one violent hate group, the proud boboys, to s stand by. pres. trump: what doing to call them? what would you like to do? proud boys? stand b back and stanand by. amamy: the proud boys are now selling t-shirts with the president's words "stand back and stand by."

there's anybody out of that original list that we had that would have been more lloyd wright and as proof and rick another key part of your story with the trump campaign is this russia thing right so and i have to say and i go back to sort of trey gowdy you know former congressman trey gowdy who stepped in you know to sort of chair the house intelligence committee you know said hey if you're innocent act like it and there were a lot of people looking at president trump statements about hillary clinton's e-mails or calling on russia to you know generate these and we now know from the senate intelligence committee report which is a bipartisan report that there was a very dense set of interactions from lots of folks in world with russia whereas the president had said no one in his campaign at any that there are these gaps and i know that you got stuck in a crucible to try to explain these gaps and fell into legal jeopardy so i read very carefully that you've made a distinction between violations of law and perhaps violations of posture and i'd love to know how you rationalize what you heard and saw a

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