Fauci and Birx at odds over angry encounter with Pence

White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and his former colleague Deborah Birx are in rare public disagreement over their recollections of a tense meeting with former Vice President Mike Pence.In her recent book, Birx, who served on the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, recalled a meeting with the vice president, Fauci and Robert Redfield, then the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.She said Fauci had encouraged her to "take on" the vice president,