{"id":142937,"date":"2021-02-17T19:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=142937"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:58:32","slug":"cnn-reporter-blasts-biden-over-schools-wont-state-what-the-science-says-due-to-teacher-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-reporter-blasts-biden-over-schools-wont-state-what-the-science-says-due-to-teacher-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Reporter Blasts Biden Over Schools: Won\u2019t State \u2018What The Science Says\u2019 Due To Teacher Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-reporter-blasts-biden-over-schools-wont-state-what-the-science-says-due-to-teacher-unions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=142937&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JB-8-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN reporter Abby Phillip slammed the Biden administration on Wednesday over the unfolding problem that it\u2019s facing regarding getting schools across the U.S. fully reopened for in-person learning, saying that politics on the political Left were a large part of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hearing a lot of conflicting stuff from the White House, especially right now about when the vaccines will be widely available, what counts in terms of reopening schools,\u201d CNN host Jake Tapper said. \u201cWhat do you make so far of the messaging from the Biden administration?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I think mixed messaging is a little bit of an understatement, as [another CNN reporter] really clearly laid out. There\u2019s been a lot of doublespeak, but I think they\u2019re in two categories,\u201d Phillip said. \u201cOne, I think, probably has more to do with the uncertainty of the vaccine development process, of the uncertainty around the variants, and what that means for the timeline for when everyone might get vaccinated and when we might return to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then there\u2019s another category of things that seems to be just about politics, which is this idea that they can\u2019t seem to just give a simple answer about what the science says about when schools should reopen, and what they might want from a political perspective before that happens,\u201d she continued. \u201cI think [White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator] Jeffrey Zients, who you saw there in [a CNN report] laid it out pretty clearly. It\u2019s still puzzling to me why the vice president and the president won\u2019t say this themselves, but the CDC guidelines say, it\u2019s not a prerequisite to reopen schools, but the Biden administration very clearly wants for teachers to be prioritized. Both things can be true at the same time, they just \u2026 for some reason, refuse to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN\u2019s Abby Phillip on Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cdoublespeak\u201d on reopening schools: \u201cjust about politics\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gfa5p5ETEy\">https:\/\/t.co\/gfa5p5ETEy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uanGxaUjR3\">pic.twitter.com\/uanGxaUjR3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1362152980422807562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tapper later highlighted how President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have both championed moving teachers to the front of the line to get vaccinated, even though the CDC has \u201cmade clear teachers don\u2019t have to be vaccinated for schools to reopen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is it so tough for the Biden administration to give a straight, clear answer on this issue of when schools should open and just the general issue of teachers\u2019 safety versus opening schools?\u201d Tapper asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean, I think that they are torn,\u201d Phillip responded. \u201cLook, the teachers\u2019 unions are a very powerful democratic constituency. And they feel very strongly that teachers should, at the very least, all be vaccinated before returning to school. But that is clearly not what the the CDC\u2019s recommendations say. What is really puzzling to me is why the Biden administration, which ran on a campaign promise of having the science go first, and the science lead, can\u2019t just simply state what the science says on the topic while also stating their preference for what they hope to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, they have even been, you know, it has even been suggested by some experts that they could offer a sort of carrot stick to states to prioritize teachers,\u201d she concluded. \u201cWhy haven\u2019t they done that, too, if the prioritization of teachers is so important? So, it\u2019s hard for me to understand this, but from a straight up communications perspective, keeping that promise of letting the science lead seems to be something that they ought to be trying to do even on this issue, which is complicated, and it\u2019s difficult for teachers and for families all across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN\u2019s Abby Phillip: Biden is \u201ctorn\u201d on schools because of powerful Democrat special interest groups<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fc8bWHW3R5\">https:\/\/t.co\/fc8bWHW3R5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5T5TCGlHUd\">pic.twitter.com\/5T5TCGlHUd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1362153995821842433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reporter Abby Phillip slammed the Biden administration on Wednesday over the unfolding problem that it\u2019s facing regarding getting schools across the U.S. fully reopened for in-person learning, saying that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181450,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JB-8-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CNN Reporter Blasts Biden Over Schools: Won\u2019t State \u2018What The Science Says\u2019 Due To Teacher Unions","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JB-8-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CNN Reporter Blasts Biden Over Schools: Won\u2019t State \u2018What The Science Says\u2019 Due To Teacher Unions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}