Dr. Anthony\u00a0 Fauci told\u00a0Rachel Maddow\u00a0on Friday that he had long wanted to be a guest on her MSNBC program but that the Trump administration had not allowed him to appear.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to come on your show for months and months,\u201d the nation\u2019s top infectious disease expert and an authority on the coronavirus pandemic, told Maddow. \u201cYou\u2019ve been asking me to come on your show for months and months, and it\u2019s just gotten blocked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fauci added: \u201cLet\u2019s call it what it is: It just got blocked because they didn\u2019t like the way you handle things, and they didn\u2019t want me on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he told officials that he liked Maddow and that she was \u201creally good,\u201d but it didn\u2019t \u201cmake any difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
But look for major changes, he promised.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to see that now\u201d in Joe Biden\u2019s administration, Fauci said. \u201cI think you\u2019re going to see a lot of transparency. … You\u2019re not going to see deliberate holding back of good people when the press asks for them.\u201d (Check out the clip above.)<\/p>\n
Fauci told CNN on Friday that the Trump administration\u2019s mangling of facts and sound scientific advice regarding COVID-19 \u201cvery likely cost lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
When \u201cyou start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Fauci told Maddow, a progressive voice in TV news, that working in the Trump administration was a \u201ctough situation; it really was.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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