>> Donald Trump has finally turned on the one health expert who has been the most careful
to avoid offending him.
And that's Dr. Deborah Birx.
She's the health expert who tries to find ways to sugarcoat the absolute devastation
this country is experiencing in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic.
And so, recently she said something that Donald Trump didn't like and he turned on her.
It all started when Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually criticized Dr. Deborah Birx for sugarcoating
some of Trump's nonsense.
And here is what she had to say about Birx and then we'll give you Birx's response.
>> You are accused Dr. Deborah Birx of the coronavirus task force of spreading disinformation
about the pandemic.
Is that true and do you have confidence in her?
>> I think the President is spreading disinformation about the virus and she is appointee, so I
don't have confidence there.
No.
>> I just wonder why single her out given the president's leading really the effort?
>> Well what happened is that we had a conversation about how we stop the virus and when we did,
they were making contentions about how tracing isn't a valuable thing.
We shouldn't do it.
I said well, that's not what most scientists say.
And they said well, we'll bring a scientist to say that.
And I said, well bet be sure it's not Dr. Birx.
Because I don't have confidence of anyone who stands there while the president says,
swallow Lysol is going to cure your virus.
No, I think that she has enabled, but it's not about her.
It's about the American people.
>> So Dr. Deborah Birx.
By the way, I mean there's a lot of truth in what Nancy Pelosi is saying there and Anthony
Fauci I think has done a better job in balancing his relationship with Trump, and also making
sure to share actual relevant information, accurate information with the American people.
That's been a very difficult balance to strike.
And that's exactly the reason why we've seen Trump go after Anthony Fauci more aggressively
on social media.
But Deborah Birx was asked about Nancy Pelosi statements and here's what she said in response.
>> We are beginning to see an impact from the mitigation procedures that many of the
state and local officials have put into place, but I want to be very clear what we're seeing
today is different from March and April.
It is extraordinarily widespread.
It's into the rural as equal urban areas, and to everybody who lives in a rural area
you are not immune or protected from this virus.
And that's why we keep saying no matter where you live in America, you need to wear a mask
and socially distance, do the personal hygiene pieces.
But more importantly, if you're in multi-generational households and there's an outbreak in your
rural area or in your city, you need to really consider wearing a mask at home assuming that
you're positive, if you have individuals in your households with comorbidities.
This epidemic right now is different and it's more widespread, and it's both rural and urban.
>> So Trump didn't like that honesty and said the following on Twitter.
So crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because
she was too positive on the very good job we're doing on combating the China virus including
vaccines and therapeutics.
In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait and hit us, pathetic.
Now as we know, a lot of people have died from this pandemic, the situation is not getting
better.
The virus is spreading rapidly and this administration has not done a good job but Waz obviously
jump in and share your thoughts.
>> It's so telling that, he just doesn't understand the strategy right?
He did the job of connecting the sort of carnage to his administration.
Just basically her describing what's happening out in America, he went ahead and connected
it to himself.
She didn't say anything about Donald Trump.
She didn't say that.
She just was like, look, man, it's getting crazy out there.
There was a sort of feeling at first that this was something that only the blue states
were getting, that only the coast, New Yorks, the San Franciscos, the Seattles were getting
and that you were safe in your rural town in Wisconsin, right?
And so she's just like, look that's no longer the case.
Stop thinking that, that's not the case.
But this guy, he just can't help himself.
He goes ahead and connects himself to the bad things that are happening out in the country
because he can only think in the binary of for us against us.
Birx came out and sort of I don't know did the job of a freaking healthcare, a medical
expert and just explained to people like this is how you should be a be behaving with this
pandemic still spreading.
He just couldn't abide by it.
It's like the idea that she wouldn't go out and be a Donald Trump lackey was signs that
she was disloyal, and therefore he had the crack down on her.
It's just so stupid because he misses the point of just being like, why would you just
not wanna just distance yourself from that kind
of stuff?