Emergency!

Top Trump administration officials on Wednesday cut short their testimony at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the response to the coronavirus, with the White House saying they were needed at a meeting focused on the spreading virus.

Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said at the start of the hearing that it would end an hour and a half early because President Trump called an “emergency” meeting with the witnesses, who are leading the government’s coronavirus response.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were testifying at the hearing. Both are members of the coronavirus task force.

“This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President Pence have called our witnesses to an emergency meeting at the White House,” Maloney said. “We don't know the details, just that it is extremely urgent.”

  The Hill

The emergency was they were testifying.

Fauci has repeatedly denied that the White House is muzzling his statements on the coronavirus.

“I have never ever held back telling exactly what is going on from a public health standpoint,” he said.

He sounded a dire warning Wednesday that the outbreak will worsen before it gets better.

“We will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now,” he said.

I hope he's got an eye on Trump's tweets, because that's how he'll be fired.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.