Tony's Diary Package — page 692

,200,000/56 1,400 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. a0 ra La = Tyr ans Tee PI ce ane THe pIfz ile TEIT prt LWT Ont LEAT HEAET ELATE O/T BEsTT EEALL SIT ATT TALL SEAT aTOT THEE PAT bial Ene wo DES oe eff za ozs Bly zWi 2020/2021 the president. I will do what he asked me to do, and again with all due respect not what the Congress asks me to do. Ron Klain and the president are OK with this approach. • Got call from Jeff that the Oxford group were coming out with a paper tomorrow saying that in a large data base they found that mRNA vaccinbes had even more thrombosis than AZ. Obviously, bullshit. They did not look for thrombocytopenia and so the observation is invalid. Also, not surprising fr the Oxford group sine their vaccine is in trouble and I would not be surprised if they were trying to disparage the other vaccines. PRESS: MSNBC - "Morning Joe" with Willie Geist; CNN "New Day" with John Berman; NBC "Today" with Savannah Guthrie; White House Press Conference (regular 3x/week). Did 4 separate Local TV hits with Cameron Webb in Mississippi Stations April 15, 2021 - Global - 137,900,000/3,000,000; USA - 31,200,000/561,400 Still hanging around 70,000/day: Major clash with Rep. Jim Jordan during the House Energy and Commerce Select Committee on COVID-19 chaired by Jim Clyburn and Steve Scalise as Ranking Member. Jordan did his usual aggressive asking me multiple questions without giving me a chance to answer. He was harping on my giving him a definite date when he can get his "liberty and freedom back" that I was restricting him from. I insisted that this was not a matter of liberty and freedom, but was a public health issue.We had a heated discussion. I finally told him that he was "ranting". In addition, I told him that he was making this a personal issue. He denied that, but I insisted that he