1. Welcome to today's edition of the Daily White House Shadow Briefing. Oh where to start. Another bizarre Trump briefing or @PressSec first foray into lying to the press. Or maybe a profile of the bus used to throw people under yesterday. I don't know. Let's start with q's

2. Q. The President did a 180 on Georgia yesterday. Is there any truth to the reporting that Fauci said he refused to back the governor's position. A. That would be true. Trump may be dumb, but at least he knows he needs to keep Fauci in the tent. But from what I hear it

3. took a lot to get him to back down. And he only sorta backed down. He said that he disagreed, after agreeing yesterday, with Kemp's decision, but he'd leave it up to the governor's wisdom, which he's repeatedly praised. Kinda like taking no position at all. There's a reason