"This information belongs to the agencies. It's not these people's personal property. And we would hope that when they leave, and they will be leaving right along with Mr. Trump that they don't take th..."
"This democracy of ours is much more tenuous than any of us believed for a long, long time."
"In making the announcement about these subpoenas today, Congressman Clyburn also detailed even more efforts by Trump political appointees to alter or block scientific work at CDC."
"Clyburn writes that today's subpoenas were necessary to, quote, understand who in the Trump administration was responsible for this political pressure campaign and whether it was intended to cripple t..."
"we need to get to the bottom of not just how they were trying to mess with the science but whether the Trump administration was actually trying to suppress and pervert all of this information to delib..."
"the idea that we might have had the world's worst COVID response as an industrialized nation not only because we were ignorant and incompetent but because it was deliberately designed to be so by Trum..."
"We may. And I think that's something that the new administration may need to take a look at."
"The chairman of the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus, James Clyburn, released a memo showing political interference in the national coronavirus response."
"The documents released today reinforce the need for health and human services to end its obstruction of the committee's investigation into the political meddling that has hindered the nation's respons..."
"Unless the administration abandons this flagrant obstruction, I will be forced to start issuing subpoenas."
"I am very optimistic. I don't know if it will go as far as we went the last time, but I think the numbers -- I've been asking people not to get carried away with the top-line. Look at the duration of ..."
"It is a winning message. There is no question about that."