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500,000/602,000 that we were told via mark meadows that we need to cancel the grant and when we told them that there has to be a specific reason the White House said we don't need a reason , just cancel the grant. When doctor Collins and doctor Tabak and indirectly when I said that it was illegal if we didn't have a specific reason , the White House came back and said make up a reason. Therefore, what I said under oath at the hearing is absolutely true. From a review of Jasmeen Abutaleb's and Damian Paletta's book by William Hanage of the Washington Post: Over and over again, whenever public health and public relations came into conflict, public health lost out. Trump's complaints directed at "the Doctors" kept coming back to the same charge -- negativity -- including a remarkable, petulant presidential Oval Office outburst roughly halfway through the book. "I am sick and tired of how negative you all are. . . . I spend half of my day responding to what Tony Fauci has to say, and I'm the president of the United States!" Later in the same exchange, Trump told coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx: "Every time you talk, I get depressed. You have to stop that." As if the pandemic could be defeated by the power of positive thinking, and Birx should just cheer up and promote policies that she knew would lead to more illness and death than the alternatives. I received a call today from David Wilman, who I thought was a friend and who has been having a conversation with me regularly every Sunday for the last several months in order for me to keep him up to date on what is going on with COVID. He was hinting early on that he was working on a story on gain of function research. He never interviewed me at all on the details of this but today he calls me up telling me how much he respects me, but he has a heads up for me that he is doing a story on gain of function and that I am in the story. He then went on to describe how much he respects me and that my favorite saying "precision of thought, economy of expression " is one that he lives by and has it pasted on his computer. This looks to me like a hatchet job on me is coming and he is telling me what a great person I am before he drops the bomb. We shall see. June 28, 2021 - Global - 181, 000,000/3,900,000; USA - 33,500,000/602,000 PRESS: BET Instagram with Mark Tallman and Ronreaco Lee; Month of Action Zoom with Partner organizations; June 29, 2021 Delta variant swarming globally. It definitely is a more efficient transmitter. WHO is now recommending that even vaccinated people wear masks. Vaccinated people are getting infected, but without serious disease. FLOTUS sent Chris and me and the family a beautiful basket of vegetables grown in the White House Garden: Scanned from a Xerox Multifunction