I don't know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt, the president replied, before warning he could walk off the interview when pressed further. The extraordinary admission ricocheted across social and political media in recent days covered by MSNBC, CNN, and ABC even prompting a blistering autopen jibe on The View. Fox News, however, remains an exception and has given the moment barely a shrug.
Monarez, appointed by Trump, was fired after less than a month in her role, and that firing came as a result of a dispute over vaccines with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to Monarez, Kennedy instructed her to pre-approve every vaccine recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This was after Kennedy had already fired the entire committee and hand-picked their replacements.