T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . The White House is saying that the director of the Centers for Disease Control, Susan Monarez, has been fired, ostensibly because she opposes Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies. This has prompted an extraordinary walkout at the CDC, which seems to be slipping into chaos as we record. At Thursday’s media briefing, White House press secretary Karoline