Late Tuesday night, CNN’s Oliver Darcy and Kaitlan Collins scooped that
Anthony Fauci is dropping out of this weekend’s White House
Correspondents’ Association dinner over concerns about Covid-19.

The question on our minds now: Will President Joe Biden go forward with
his own plans to attend the dinner — disagreeing with his chief medical
adviser in the process?

And, embattled House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will face his rank
and file in a GOP Conference meeting this morning. It’s their first time
gathering since a slew of book excerpts and audio recordings landed
McCarthy in hot water with MAGA world over what he said in private about
both Donald Trump and Trump’s congressional allies in the days following
the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The meeting comes just after the release of one of the most damaging
clips yet: On Tuesday, NYT’s Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin published
another explosive piece of audio in which McCarthy (1) said he wished
Twitter would ban some of his own members from the platform, and (2)
expressed concerns that his rank and file could incite more violence in
the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack — yet chose to do nothing about it.

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