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24 hours before the Trump executive order was issued, the NIH director said on CBS that he did not know what was in the order. He also twice said that he trusted the science and vaccinated his own children. He recommended that parents should vaxx their children before sending them back to school. Then 24 hours later.....
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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday laying out new recommendations for childhood vaccinations.
👇@margbrennan asked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, National Institutes of Health director, about plans for the executive order on Sunday.
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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday laying out new recommendations for childhood vaccinations.
👇@margbrennan asked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, National Institutes of Health director, about plans for the executive order on Sunday.
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GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said on Sunday that his decision to support Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general wasn't "black or white," outlining what informed his thinking ahead of casting the decisive vote.
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, said on Sunday that "I trust the science" on vaccines, as measles cases have risen to their highest levels in 35 years, sparking concern among some parents about their children returning to school this fall.
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With children heading back to school, @margbrennan asks NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya whether parents should trust federal recommendations to vaccinate their kids.
“Yes, you should vaccinate your kids,” Bhattacharya says, noting he vaccinated his own kids, and later adding, “I trust the science.”
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.@margbrennan asks NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya if a yet to be issued White House executive order on vaccines and autism, as reported by The Washington Post and Bloomberg, would help restore public trust, as NIH studies a broader range of potential factors behind the rise in autism:
“I won't be able to tell you specifically what's on it because I don't think it's done yet. But you can ask the president about it,” Bhattacharya says.
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WATCH: When asked whether enough is being done to counter vaccine misinformation one year after the deadly shooting at CDC headquarters, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya instead points to “a loss of public trust in public health” stemming from the government’s handling of the COVID pandemic, which began in the first Trump administration.
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FULL INTERVIEW: Watch @margbrennan’s full conversation with National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya this morning on @FaceTheNation.
The job market unexpectedly shrank in July, with employers shedding 23,000 jobs — far below the 83,000 in job gains economists expected. Unemployment ticked down to 4.1% as more workers abandoned their job search. May and June hiring was also revised down by a combined 103,000 jobs.
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When asked whether he would advise Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to adjust his rhetoric ahead of the general election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says “he’s more than capable of making his own political adjustments.”
Sanders says President Trump is “going to go after El-Sayed” on social media and during rallies “for racist reasons.”
“These guys have nothing to say about the major crises facing our country,” Sanders says. “All they could do is appeal to racism.”
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The Senate voted 86-11 on Friday to impose stiff new financial penalties on buyers of Russian oil, advancing legislation the late Sen. Lindsey Graham spent more than a year pushing in a bid to help end Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. His sister, South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham, presided over Friday’s vote. The House still needs to act on the bill.
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Amid the spreading Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce from Mexico and a multistate salmonella outbreak, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says Americans can “rest assured” federal health officials are “working hard to trace back exactly where these outbreaks are occurring from” to keep contaminated products off store shelves.
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WATCH: CBS News’ homeland security and justice correspondent Nicole Sganga shares the latest details on the cyberattacks impacting several states’ water systems.
“Within primaries, Democrats can get super PACs out. That's what they should do,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calls on leaders of the Democratic Party to end super PAC participation in primaries.
“You can't expect Democratic candidates to be outfunded 50-1,” he says. “Democrats can take charge of what takes place within their own primaries right now.”
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan’s Democratic primary “was one of the most extraordinary victories in modern political history,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says, adding that even though his moderate opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, outspent him 9-1, “he managed to win.”
“$60 million in billionaire-funded super PAC money came into that race, half from AIPAC,” he tells @margbrennan. “...What you had is AIPAC spending $30 million in the Democratic primary trying to defeat Abdul. They lost, and now they're saying, 'We're going to support this guy, Rogers, who is a Republican.’”
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President Trump needs to “come out and speak forcefully on what the path forward is” on Iran as the U.S. returns to hostilities, Sen. Bill Cassidy tells @margbrennan, adding, “there needs to be that dialogue with the American people.”
Cassidy (R-LA) says Vice President Vance described to GOP senators a long-term strategy of economic pressure on Iran, keeping oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz and “continued selective operations.” The administration originally said the war would last four to five weeks. It is now in its sixth month.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Democratic socialist candidate for governor of Wisconsin, Francesca Hong:
@margbrennan: “Why don’t you support her? Is some of what she supports too extreme for you?”
Sanders: “No, raising taxes on the rich, making sure that everybody in Wisconsin or America has health care as a right sounds quite reasonable to me…Look, we have a limited number of races that we can be involved in.”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says he’s “not confident” about his endorsement of Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota’s Senate race, saying “she’s being outspent 7-1” by her opponent, Rep. Angie Craig.
“I hope very much that Peggy wins,” Sanders tells @margbrennan. “...People are tired of the status quo politics and establishment policies. They really want change, and Peggy Flanagan is about bringing about real change.”
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Four U.S. soldiers were killed in the Middle East region last week as the war with Iran escalated. On Wednesday, President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attended their dignified transfer.
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When asked in June if Graham Platner’s campaign could survive another scandal, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) told @margbrennan, “If there was any evidence that comes out that there is actual domestic violence or assault, I have zero tolerance for that.”
Khanna, who had campaigned with Platner, pulled his endorsement Monday and said Platner should drop out of the race after a new sexual assault allegation emerged, which Platner has denied.
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