This is what dr. Robert redfield actually said to the Washington Post about what might happen if a second wave of the virus hits during flu season. The article was published yesterday with headlines around the world. In fact, dr. Redfield himself liked the article enough to promote it on twitter. As you can see right there from his tweet, he tweeted out a link to that article. Last night, and heres part of what he said in that article. Quote, there is a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through. And when ive said this to others they kind of put their head back. They dont understand what i mean, end quote. So, again, he tweeted out a link to the story last night. Now little less than 24 hours later, at tonights briefing at the white house, the president said redfield was misquoted and he called redfield to the podium to say that what he said didnt actually mean what his words actually said. But they did. Lets listen. I didnt say this was going to be worse. I said it was going to be more difficult and potentially complicated because well have flu and coronavirus circulating at the same time. The key to my comments, and the reason that i really wanted to stress them, was to appeal to the American Public to embrace the flu vaccine with confidence. One of the greatest tools we have as we go through the fall winter season were into is to get the American Public to embrace the influenza vaccine and thereby minimize the impact of flu to be the corespiratory disease we confront. Just to be absolutely clear, in introducing dr. Redfield, the president said he took issue with the piece that was head lined he called fake. Cdc director warns second wave of coronavirus would be worse. It now reads second wave of coronavirus is likely to be more devastating. Neither of which appeared to inaccurately characterize what dr. Redfield said, which is the next wave could be more difficult than this one. In any case, the president can say as he did at the briefing the doctor was totally misquoted and make the doctor get up and toe the line. When asked precisely tonight, dr. Redfield at the podium took issue with the way the piece was headlined, but admitted he was accurately quoted. Just to remind you, not to let falsehood have the last word, here is what he said. Quote, there is a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through. And when ive said this to others they kind of put their head back. They dantoni understand what i mean. And when asked about protests against stayathome orders and the president calling on states to be liberated, dr. Redfield told the Washington Post, quote, its not helpful. And then to repeat, he tweeted out the link to the story, the same story he claimed he was disavowing tonight be in front of the president. Lets be real. This is part of a pattern. Anthony fauci said something that displeased the president. Rick bright seeking whistleblower status after being pulled from his job. He said he didnt push the president s drug of choice, hydroxychloroquine. Pointing out the statement he released tonight. I believe the transfer was in response to my insistence the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by congress to address the pandemic and vet safe solution and not those that lack scientific merit. Im speaking out because not politics or kronyism has to lead the way. President was asked about it in the briefing and gave a familiar answer. Mr. President , i want to ask you about rick bright. Hes the head of the federal agency in charge of getting a vaccine out to americans once its ready. He says he has been pushed out of his job because he raised questions about hydroxychloroquine, some of your directives about that. Was he pushed i never heard of him. You just mentioned a name. I never heard of him. When did this happen . This happened today. A guy says he was pushed out of a job . Maybe he was, maybe he wasnt. Id have to hear the other side. I dont know who he is. He is one of the many professionals trying to do their jobs which is trying to save lives, which is also what cdc official Nancy Messinger was doing when she warned in late february that Community Spread of coronavirus was likely. Tonight wall street journal is reporting the president was so angry he called the secretary of health and Human Services and threatened to fire her for telling the truth. President calls himself a wartime president. In truth it seems the first, last and constant casualty in this war. More now from cnn chief White House Correspondent jim accosta. What are you learning about rick bright and the clash thats happening here . Reporter he sounds like hes a casualty, anderson, of the president s war on scientists, war on science in the administration. Dr. Bright is going to file a whistleblower complaint. He is protesting his removal from his position leading that agency that is charged with vaccine development. He was working on a vaccine for the coronavirus when he was abruptly pulled out of his position. He had been clashing with top officials with health and Human Services. But it was basically over the points he raises in this lengthy Statement Released to reporters earlier today. Essentially saying that he protested inside hhs this tendency on the part of the president , other administration officials, to show preference for treatments like hydroxychloroquine when the science is just not even settled on that and there are studies showing it doesnt work. And when this doctor, dr. Bright, raised questions about it, he is saying he was ousted from his position and talking to a source familiar with the situation this evening, anderson, we are told that he hasnt even been told what hes going to be doing over at the National Institutes of health. And so it sounds like hes been pushed out of this job into another job and he doesnt even know what that job is going to be yet. What is his next step . Reporter at this point he is saying he is going to be fighting for his job, according to the source we spoke with earlier this evening. He is going to be fighting for this job. He wants to be reinstated back into his position over at that agency. But you heard the president there a few moments ago essentially pouring cold water on that idea saying, well, maybe he was pushed out, maybe he wasnt. Anderson, from all appearances he was absolutely pushed out and that is what dr. Bright is saying. And it sounds as though hes going to have his chance to make his case. I will point out, though, dr. Anthony fauci who appeared at the briefing this evening seemed to say that dr. Bright is going to be welcomed over at n. I. H. And given some important responsibilities, but its not clear whether or not dr. Bright has been informed of that yet. Jim accosta. Jim, stay with us. Want to bring in our chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta and gloria borger. He stressed coronavirus may not come back in the fall but we may see embers. Do you have any idea about coronavirus embers . No, the virus is the virus. The virus is the one constant in this whole equation. We have to continue to be able to react to this virus which, you know, continue to be the physical distancing measures and probably really spearheaded as we talked about so many times by testing. Finding people who were infected, isolating them, finding their contacts, all that. But the virus is not going away. I mean, its here. Its a contagious virus. It can be lethal in certain cases as we know. Ultimately a vaccine may inoculate us against the virus, which would be great and a real significant development. But this is part of our human environment now, this virus. So its not going away. How we react to it is what may change. Gloria, this is the second time a doctor has clarified their remarks at the podium or been brought up to clarify, even though what dr. Redfield was clarifying was exact little what he had said. So last week it was dr. Fauci after he told jake tapper mitigation could save lives. Tonight dr. Redfield. What do you make of this pattern . Well, first of all, i think its a disgusting pattern honestly. These are professionals who choose their words carefully. And, you know, if you looked at the picture tonight of dr. Redfield standing up there and the president standing to his side, looking like the executioner who could chop off his head at any time and fire him if he wanted to. And we know the president can do that. And still, what he did was he got up there and he effectively he couched it, but he effectively said what he said. He said the Washington Post was accurate. And i would argue that tony fauci did exactly the same thing when he stood up there. And i think perhaps the reason they all still have their jobs, because the president would probably like to get rid of anyone who disagrees with him or challenges him or gets him in trouble with the public, is that he looks at the polls and he understands that the scientists are trusted more by the American Public than he is. And so he needs them right now. He needs them in his corner as angry as it might make him. It would be very difficult for him to get rid of them. Jim, its interesting the president said heed never heard of rick bright. Maybe he has never heard of rick bright. It is kind of his goto thing of, you know, people he just he says hes never heard of them and then, of course, people hes been photographed with numerous times. Its the lev parnas who was working with rudy giuliani. Reporter the coffee boy. Yes. Reporter anderson, sounds like the excuses we got during the russia investigation, various figures of the russia investigation were the coffee boys. They had more coffee boys than coffee during the russia investigation. The president seems to be offering up the same excuse about dr. Rick bright. The president may not have personally known dr. Bright and we dont know that for a fact at this point. Were still digging on that point. But obviously he was known inside h. H. S. Because he was clashing with these Health Officials. And keep in mind, think about where dr. Bright was standing versus where some of these other Top Health Officials in the administration were standing. President trump and figures on fox news have been touting hydroxychloroquine for weeks as a treatment for the coronavirus. Remember the president standing in the Briefing Room saying, what do you have to lose . What do you have to lose . And so on. And what dr. Bright was raising internally is that not only do you lose the concept of time because youre being treated with something that may not be effective, but there are also health risks. There are cardiovascular risks with hydroxychloroquine, and that is starting to show up in some of these studies, showing a higher mortality rate and so on. So dr. Bright was on the side of science. He was on the side of saving lives. And it sounds like there were Top Health Officials he was clashing with who were siding with the president no matter the cost. I want to bring in another voice to the conversation now, lena sun who interviewed dr. Redfield for her report in the Washington Post. Im wondering what you make of what you just witnessed of him in the podium because it seemed like the president was saying he was going to walk back what he said to you in the interview, but he actually did just verify that, in fact, he was quoted accurately in the interview. He was quoted accurately. We had a very good conversation. He spent a lot of time talking about the importance of getting the flu vaccination and why it was important for americans to get this message and how the public Health Officials had to prepare for this summer so that when covid19 hits in the fall, which has very similar symptoms to flu, that the Public Health capacity, hospitals would not be overwhelmed. He made this point of saying americans needed to get the flu vaccination because that way the hospital beds would be available for their mothers and grand mothers who might need it for covid. Right. I mean, that is an important point as we pointed out a lot in our coverage. There are Many Americans do not get the flu vaccine even though it has it is as deadly as it is. I mean, the flu is a dangerous thing and people die of it every year. The president said today that the headline to your story was, quote, totally inaccurate. I just want to put the headline up on the screen which is, quote, cdc director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating. I mean, just from a factual standpoint, saying its more likely to be more devastating and more difficult is essentially the same thing. If a deadly virus is more difficult, i mean, its more devastating. Wondering what your response is to the president s issue with the wording. Its sort of use your common sense. If you have this covid19 if coronavirus now is hitting the United States and it took place after flu season had already want waned and youre seeing stress on hospital, lack of protective equipment, lack of ventilators, just imagine what it would be like if it hit the same time as flu in the fall. And dr. Redfield himself said that we were lucky that it didnt hit at the same time as flu this year because and then in his quote that i quoted him, he said that it would be very, very, very i think he used four verys, difficult on the Health System capacity. So you take all those things. Flu at the same time as coronavirus. And if people dont get vaccinated, the rush to hospitals it is just common sense, the portrait would be when he says difficult and people not understanding what he means, it means that hes drawing this picture for americans of how bad it could be. That seems to me the definition of devastating. Bottom line, you stand by your story. We stand by my story. I stand by my story. And dr. Redfield said he was quoted accurately. And i would point out, anderson, after the story posted he also tweeted and encouraged people to read the story. We put up his tweet earlier. Lena, i appreciate your reporting. Sanjay, i want to turn to georgia. The president said he disagrees with the governors decision to open businesses friday, nail salons, Massage Therapy spas and the like. Dr. Fauci said he would urge the governor to be careful. As a resident of georgia, as a physician, are there any signs that the government is listening . It doesnt seem like it. No, and, in fact, over the last few minutes, you know, Governor Kemp has now responded to what President Trump said. And President Trump said he strongly disagrees with Governor Kemps decision to reopen things in georgia. As you mentioned, dr. Fauci said he would advise him against it. Yesterday ambassador birx said there are outbreaks going on. This doesnt meet the guidelines, the gating criteria. What we just heard, anderson, thats not going to change a thing in the governors mind. Hes still planning on moving forth with this plan to start reopening things on friday. Hair salons, nail salons, tattoo what do they call them, tattoo parlors, whatever it might be, all these things. Dont pretend you dont know about tattoos, sanjay. I dont think youre a tattoo guy. [ laughter ] not a tattoo guy. How do you socially how do you physically distance at those sorts of places . I still dont i think a lot of people are thinking common sense here. It just doesnt fit. Yeah, and restaurants and theaters on monday, according to the governor of georgia. Dr. Sanjay gupta, thank you. Gloria borger, lena sun. The governor of las vegas wants to end her stay. Something Health Officials say should not happen. Thats not what the governor of nevada thinks. Ill show you my interview with the mayor earlier today. Well talk with the man who issued the order governor of nevada. 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