President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed suggestions that his relationship with Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, might have soured, after Fauci was conspicuously absent from Friday's news briefing by the White House coronavirus task force.
"I don't know. But every time you ask that question, whenever he's not here, you say, look, where is he? And you'll say, is there a problem? No problem whatsoever," Trump told CNN's Jim Acosta, who inquired about Fauci's absence, after his network reported Fauci was removed from the group of briefers at the last minute.
"Every time he's not here - sometimes I'll ask him to come, because that's the first question you and a few others from the fake news establishment ask is, where is Dr. Fauci? We're doing great work together. Except we are covering a different subject today," the president continued.
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