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It’s was whiplash on CBS Evening News as they went with one narrative to bash President Trump on Wednesday, only to turn around on Thursday to hit him from the completely other side. The narrative switcheroo came as the network used the Congressional testimony of the nation’s top immunologist to suggest Trump wasn’t doing enough to limit those infected with the coronavirus from coming into the country. The very next day, CBS was up in arms about the new travel ban from Europe and questioned if corrective measures were too late.
The first two clips in the video below were from the Wednesday (March 11) broadcast of CBS Evening News. Those clips show Dr. Anthony Fauci telling Congress: “If we are complacent and don't do really aggressive containment and mitigation the number could go way up and be involved in many, many millions.” In addition, White House correspondent Weijia Jiang noting this:
JIANG: Fauci was asked how the administration plans on controlling the outbreak.
FAUCI: How much worse we'll get will depend on our ability to do two things: To contain the influx of people who are infected coming from the outside, and the ability to contain and mitigate within our own country.
What Fauci was obviously calling for there was some kind of travel ban that would stop infected people from entering the country while the administration dealt the domestic outbreak. The segment was designed to decry the President’s response to the outbreak and suggest the address to the nation (before it was delivered) as just “damage control” by the White House.
Come Thursday, however, the narrative was turned on its head (the last two clips in the video). In the President’s address the night before, he announced a new travel ban from Europe with the goal of limiting the infected passing into the U.S. And CBS was not standing for it.
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