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Thank you for that. some confusion and plenty of outrage this morning after the centers for disease control was ordered to ban a list of words, including vulnerable, fetus and transgender. the "washington post" first reporting that the trump administration told the cdc last week not to use certain words in 2018 budget documents. here they are -- diversity, transgender, fetus, vulnerable, entitlement, science-based, and evidence-based. >> one longtime policy analyst told the "post" reaction at the briefing was "incredulous. are you serious? are you kidding?" the cdc itself pushing back on repor...

Including vulnerable, fetus, and transgender. the "washington post" reporting the trump administration told the cdc last week not to use certain words on 2018 budget documents, and here they are. you might not believe them. yes, diversity, transgender, fetus, vulnerable, entitlement, evidence-based, and science-based. >> one longtime policy analyst told the "post" reaction at that briefing at the cdc was "incredulous," are you serious, are you kidding. the cdc itself is pushing back on the "washington post" reporting. director brenda fitzgerald sent a note to staff saying in part "cdc has a lo...

I think there's a full screen my director will pull up, that you can't say anymore -- transgender, vulnerable, evidence-based, things like that. what is that about? >> it's actualley a good question what that's about. that certainly is the case that when administrations come in, they want to put their stamp on the various agencies they control. i think that the reaction we've seen to this, which has been a very strong reaction, is in part an after effect of the way president trump has dealt with facts ads a candidate and as president. we've seen multiple times the administration has sought out...

Reporting in the forbidden words and phrases including diversity, science-based, evidence-based, fetus. what do you interpret by these actions from the trump administration on trying to either erase a messaging or perhaps plant messaging? >> this is an administration that is very attuned to shaping the national conversation. sometimes in small ways and sometimes in big ways. with the cdc, that's a very transparent effort to remove certain words and to do so in a way that is appealing to the base of the trump coalition. i think with the mueller investigation there is a very transparent effort t...

Evidence-based. and i think there's some things that would be recommended, a background check to make sure that the wrong people aren't getting firearms. a substantial portion of the gun acquisitions are done without any background check at all. we're going to see what we can do with the military, assault-type weapons and the huge magazines that contain 30, 50 and some, i understand, a hundred bullets. why do you need more than ten bullets at a time in one magazine? we need to make sure that straw purchases are condemned and criminalized. the penalty for straw purchases where you go buy a gun ...