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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) let Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) know that he won't have a role in controlling the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump.
Schumer granted Republicans an extra two weeks to prepare for the trial against Trump, but the GOP took it a step further on Sunday, prompting the Democratic leader to shut McConnell down, BBC reporter Hugo Lowell reported.
<p>"The only way to bring healing is to actually have real accountability. So we will move forward with the trial," Schumer explained. </p><p>It''s a sentiment that Sen. Elizabeth Warren also expressed on CNN Sunday morning with Abby Phillip. She too, said that unity begins with accountability. </p><p>President Joe Biden's team has maintained that leaders can do more than one thing at once, legislating and doing impeachment. With 100 members in the U.S. Senate and 20 committees to navigate a transportation bill and COVID relief bill while the Senators hear the facts behind the Capitol insurrection. </p>
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A New York Times interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed more about his quip during last week's press conference that saying "I don't know" is an acceptable answer in the new administration.
Giving a briefing to the press Thursday, Fauci explained, with a chuckle, "You know, one of the new things in this administration is if you don't know the answer, don't guess. Just say you don't know the answer."
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The new interview with Fauci revealed the shock that the nation's top infectious disease expert would dare to "contradict" the president.
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"That's when I started to get into some trouble," the <i>Times </i>interview said. "The people around him, his inner circle, were quite upset that I would dare publicly contradict the president. That's when we started getting into things I felt were unfortunate and somewhat nefarious — namely, allowing Peter Navarro to write an editorial in USA Today saying I'm wrong on most of the things I say. Or to have the White House press office send out a detailed list of things I said that turned out to be not true — all of which were nonsense because they were all true. The very press office that was making decisions as to whether I can go on a TV show or talk to you."</p><p>He said he wasn't exactly "taken to the woodshed," so much as a report would prompt Trump's chief of staff to "express concern" that Fauci was "going out of my way to contradict the president." </p><p>He also noted that former economic adviser Peter Navarro "had a thing" about Fauci after a disagreement over hydroxychloroquine. It has been proven over the past year that hydroxychloroquine isn't helpful to combat the virus and it can cause problems for some who take it. Navarro was still pushing the drug as recently as <a href="https://endpts.com/trump-and-navarro-press-again-for-hydroxychloroquine-can-the-fda-stay-independent/" target="_blank">Tuesday</a> morning ahead of the inauguration. </p><p>Trump, Fauci said, never told him to lie, but he did call and ask why he was "so negative" and told him to be "more positive" about the global pandemic, which has no claimed over 400,000 lives. </p><p>Many conservatives are still spreading the myth that Dr. Fauci spent the first months of the pandemic lying to people not to wear masks. It's a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-mask-advice-was-because-doctors-shortages-from-the-start-2020-6" target="_blank">misunderstanding</a> that conspiracy theorists have taken hold of to attack Fauci. Even Meghan McCain has repeated the false claim her show "The View" as recently as last week. "<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/meghan-mccain-joe-biden/" target="_blank">I was lied to!</a>" she proclaimed, incorrectly. </p><p>In fact, those early days were prior to Trump using the Defense Production Act to increase the personal protective equipment available to healthcare workers. At that time, there weren't enough masks for those on the front lines and there was a very real concern about a shortage that could take down those we needed most. It was the reason that so many people began making masks and shields for healthcare workers through March and April. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/health/fauci-trump-covid.html" target="_blank">Read the full interview with Fauci at the New York Times. </a><em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/health/fauci-trump-covid.html">New York Times. </a></em></p>
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CNN's Jim Acosta describes Trump's 'sad and pathetic' last moments before heading to Florida
January 24, 2021
Appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Jim Acosta -- who is stepping down as chief White House correspondent to host a weekend show for the network -- was asked by host Brian Stelter to describe witnessing Donald Trump's departure to Florida as Joe Biden was sworn into office.
According to Acosta -- who has battled with the president for four years -- the scene was "sad and pathetic."
"It was sort of a sad and pathetic sight," Acosta told Stelter. "I've never seen him this alone the entire time he was at the level of presidential politics."
"Essentially what we saw was the undoing of the Trump presidency," he continued. "What we saw the President build over the course of four or five years out on the campaign trail and over at the White House just sort of unraveled at the end."
Acosta also said this was likely not the last time we would be seeing Trump on the national stage.
"I think it is temporary," he said of Trump's current Twitter-less silence, adding the ex-president has the potential " ... to come back in the days to come. I do think Trump is going to lead at least a fringe movement in this country."
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