intellectually forceful, and sometimes not very nice adult. his parents did something very rare for anyone. in 1964, but especially for a child. they sent him to a therapist. >> all the other people he was seeing were like couples who were arguing. i was kind of unusual. >> do you remember what you said to him? >> i said, i'm at war with my parents. uh, they're imposing arbitrary rules on me and. >> and you were nine years. >> old, and he said, you're going to win. and i was like, what? >> the therapist told you you're going to win. >> yeah. at the end of the second session, he's like, what are you after here? you know, isn't it kind of more being recognized or succeeding? and aren't they really on your side? and he. refocused my energy utterly. that giving my parents a hard time was not the path to anything.

>> he appealed to your logic. >> exactly. >> well, the whole story airs this sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern. the news continues right here on cnn. >> outfront next, breaking news. >> testing trump's. >> power. the supreme court tonight. >> just ruling the. >> head of. >> the government watchdog agency can remain on the job despite being fired by trump. plus, facing the. >> facts. >> president trump finally admitting the truth. what the world witnessed that russia started the war in ukraine. but is he willing to call putin a dictator? and a blow to new york's embattled mayor. a judge not ready to dismiss the doj's case against him. and tonight, assigning a new lawyer to review the case. let's go out front. good evening. i'm brianna keilar in for erin burnett. outfront tonight. breaking news, a supreme setback. president trump suffering a temporary blow after the supreme court just ruled that the head of the

government's ethics watchdog agency can remain on the job despite being fired by trump. now, this ruling is just until the court can take up the case in the next week or two. but it is the first major test of trump's efforts to reshape the federal government. and this comes after a federal judge gave trump the okay to put thousands in humanitarian of humanitarian aid employees on leave, dismantling u.s. aid was one of president trump and elon musk's first orders of business, and since then, they've shown no signs of slowing down. >> we are. created. this department. doge and the kind of numbers are incredible. it could be $500 million, but it could be $1 trillion. elon is doing a really good job. >> but tonight the concerns are growing that musk's cuts are going too far, even as he's only just getting started. we're now

learning the pentagon has temporarily paused most of its plans to ax tens of thousands of employees. the concern is that those cuts could affect the u.s. military readiness, according to officials. still, defense department officials just announcing tonight they'll terminate more than 5000 probationary employees next week. and tonight, trump suggesting his next target may be an agency that every single american relies on. >> there are reports. >> that. >> um, you were considering merging the united states postal service with the commerce department. >> well, we want to have a post office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money. and we're thinking about doing that, and it will be a form of a merger. >> and on the ground, republicans are starting to feel some blowback from musk's decision to take a chainsaw to the united states federal government. in deep red georgia, republican congressman rich mccormick facing a barrage of pointed questions and

accusations about doj's cuts. >> to. it's clear. >> from all the. >> writings of our founding fathers that our great republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator, nor a king who. controls the budget. not the president. and you are doing us a disservice to set that down and not stand up for us. and you. >> jeff zeleny is outfront live at the white house. and, jeff, the supreme court citing against president trump, at least temporarily, on his ability to immediately fire the head of the agency that investigates whistleblower claims. how does team trump view this setback? >> well, brianna, temporarily is the key word here, but this is extraordinary because it's the supreme court for the first time, weighing in, having their voice on what is sure to be a raft of legal cases that we're

already seeing from the first month of this trump administration. but again, the supreme court stepping in and saying they will not make a decision, basically a lasting decision until next week at the earliest. and this is all about the watchdog, the government watchdog, the head of the office of special counsel, who was put in position last year by president biden and confirmed by the u.s. senate for a five year position. this is one of those positions in government that expands and spans the presidential administrations by design for independence. so there is nothing unusual about that. but the trump administration tried to dismiss him. and the supreme court is, for now, siding with the challenger here and saying that they will rule in a more fulsome way, perhaps as early as next week or hear the case. but that is is it to be determined? but we know the supreme court has had a vast view of of presidential power, the flexing of the presidential muscle, if you will. so this is only the first word, certainly not the

last word, but it's coming as we are really learning more about what judges are doing. and the trump administration had a slight win earlier today in the case of usaid, as you were saying, the judge there saying that the trump administration can go forward and begin dismantling the usaid. of course, it provides assistance around the world, around the globe. and that had been something that, the workers there had been hoping would be a different direction just a couple of weeks ago, when the judge put a pause on that, it was viewed that the judiciary may be stepping in here, but there are going to be a lot of wins and losses, there is no doubt. but in this case, there have been several judges ruling on behalf of the administration, saying that the workers here have not shown proper harm. so the bottom line on all of this, the supreme court is going to hear a lot of these cases. so this ruling tonight is a temporary a win for the challengers, i guess, if you will. but again, we know the

majority of the supreme court rests on the conservative side. and that's perhaps something to keep in mind going forward, brianna. >> all right. jeff zeleny, thank you. outfront now, democratic congressman eric swalwell, thank you so much for being with us. and i just want to get your reaction. and i notice your hat, the fire fund there. but i just want to get your reaction to the supreme court keeping hampton dellinger in his role for now as special counsel, rather than allowing president trump's firing to go through for now. we should stress. >> the courts are finally catching up to trump's chaos and corruption. and people in my district. at a town hall on tuesday night, they're scared, they're concerned, they're anxious. but we're seeing now that the courts can at least be a speed bump. of course, as jeff mentioned, the supreme court also gave this guy absolute immunity. so we will see what they do. but the courts can be a speed bump to some of this chaos and corruption. also, attorneys

general in every state in america can also be a speed bump in the work that they're doing to hold donald trump accountable, as this affects them. and your top of the hour lead with donald trump changing his position on ukraine. that is because public sentiment. so we are not helpless either. people at home should know that your reaction, your disapproval of donald trump calling vladimir zelenskyy a dictator and siding with putin, that has put trump in a position where he is now changing those words, whether he changes his actions, we don't know. but we're not helpless here. and so it's encouraging to see some progress this week. >> president trump said that doge could save the country $1 trillion. i suspect you probably doubt that. but i do wonder where you see room for cuts. >> i would love if doge could save the country $1 trillion. i hate government waste. in fact, i have. 40% of my constituents were born outside the united

states and they are frustrated with an immigration process that is almost entirely done by paper and pen. so let's digitize that and reduce the staffing needed and expedite the good immigration cases, and get rid of the ones that are not worthy. many people, when they apply to work for the federal government, it takes up to eight hours to fill out their application. that should be done in less than an hour. so there's a lot of efficiencies out there, but i'm worried about doge making us less safe. when you get rid of the bird flu monitors who protect us, you know, against protect the chickens against bird flu and then keep the cost of eggs down. that does not make us economically safe. when you get rid of people at the faa as planes are crashing in america, that makes us less safe. when you get rid of fbi agents who are supposed to watch out for terrorism, that makes us less safe. when you get rid of. protect us from a measles outbreak in texas that makes us less safe. so in california,

when you get rid of firefighters at the forest service, as we have unseasonable winds and the fires that have ravaged across southern california and northern california, that makes us less safe. i'm all for efficiency, but i'm also for protecting the people who count on the government. >> i do want to play more of what one voter said to your republican colleague, congressman rich mccormick, at this town hall, and his response? let's listen. >> liz cheney is rising in the white house, and a man has declared himself our king. so i would like to know whether the people would like to know who you, congressman and your fellow congressman, are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the white house. >> when you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power, i remember having the same discussion with republicans when biden was elected. the

funny thing is, the funny thing is, the funny thing is you're sitting here and a lot of you would probably say those january six's who are yelling just as loud as you, who are upset, just like you. >> but i do wonder what your reaction is, but a noting, as i think we should, that tia mitchell of the ajc pointed this out earlier. he is in, yes, a pretty red district. this place where he was. it's a it's a slight it's a bluer part of it in fulton county. how much stock then should democrats put in something, a scene like that? >> well, they should understand, my colleagues, that people are scared. they're off. they don't want us to be nice. they want us to use the leverage that we have. and also, i reject comparing those peaceful dissenters to the violent rioters on january 6th. but, you know, brianna, they have essentially the trump administration shut down the

government. they're shutting down the government with what they're doing on public safety, what they're doing on fire safety, what they're doing on our health safety, and what they may go after as far as retirement and health care safeties. so as we approach government funding in a couple of weeks, we should not, as democrats, enable the shutting down of services that protect people. they have a one vote majority essentially in the house. they can't lose a single vote to fund this madness. so if they can't put the votes together on their own, we have a lot of leverage to shut down this madness that they are inflicting on the american people ourselves. >> congressman swalwell, thank you so much for being with us tonight. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> and outfront tonight, brian barrett, the executive editor at wired, whose team has been breaking a ton of news about elon musk and doge. and, brian, you just heard us talk about those voters voicing their frustrations with musk. what's your reaction? >> i think it's not surprising. >> i think on the one hand, to

begin with, it's not surprising that a significant number of americans aren't excited about the idea of the world's richest man having free reign to reshape the government however he wants, which is pretty much where we're at. but but i think even if you believed in the doge project going into this, if you thought that it was going to do some good, what we're seeing is not surgical precision strikes to root out corruption and fraud from the government. we are seeing a slash and burn process that is eliminating programs and jobs that are focused on helping american farmers, preventing fraud that affects consumers from from financial corporations and and preventing diseases and curing diseases. we are seeing real impacts. and i think as we see those impacts grow after these changes take place, people are only going to get more upset and it's only going to become more real as it hits home. >> and i also want to get to your new reporting at wired about tom cruise, the top doge staffer at treasury who is also

ceo of a multi-billion dollar software company. it's not unprecedented for a corporate executive to work in the government. there's no evidence he's doing anything improper with these dual roles. but what are you learning about the federal contracts that his company has? >> yeah, i will say so. it is not unprecedented, but the idea of having a keeping your job as ceo and working in government at the same time is surprising. you have to go back pretty far to sort of world war i and world war ii for that to be a more normal kind of thing to happen. we reached out to tom cruise, we reached out to treasury, we reached out to cloud software group, his company. no one got back to us, but what we found was tom cruise. while he is working in the treasury and has access to federal payment systems or oversees a lot of that. his company, meanwhile, has tens of millions of dollars with the federal government, including over $10 million of contracts with the treasury department itself. as you said, there's no indication that there's any self-dealing going on right now. but on the face of it, the level of conflict of interest is something that we haven't seen in a very long time in this country. and i think the fact that it has been

just sort of allowed to go on, no one's raising flags is really concerning, i think speaks to the larger issues. uh doge. representatives going in and trying to transform the government in the sort of startup way, uh, while also potentially benefiting from those changes. >> your reporters also just spoke with the recently fired security lead for va.gov. tell us about his role and also the potential impact of the firing. >> yes, i think there are two things. one, there's the fact of it, the fire in itself. this guy, jonathan kamins, who was working at the va, he was in charge of cybersecurity for va.gov, which is a site where 20 million veterans went to last year alone to work through various benefits, whether it's health benefits, retirement benefits, it's got a lot of personal information in there, a lot of sensitive stuff. and this is the guy in charge of it, and he got fired. now, i think what's important to remember here is and to know is that he was actually had been deployed from a different agency, the

u.s. digital service, which would become the u.s. department of government efficiency. doge took it over. uh, he was fired as part of a culling of that agency. and it seems as though the people who fired him may not have even realized what they were doing. they may not have even known that he was also over here trying to protect veterans online. it's a sort of indiscriminate firings that we've talked about already, where doge is just kind of making these big moves without thinking through the implications and leaving veterans online a little bit less safe. there are still people working on cybersecurity at the va, but when you lose top talent like that with no real justification that we could find, uh, it's alarming and upsetting. >> yeah. they're not seeking out that important information even as they do these firings. it's really a firings. it's really astounding. brian, thank you so much for sharing all the reporting and insights. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> outfront next, trump finally conceding it was russia that started the war in ukraine, while at the same time tonight escalating his war of words with

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>> i've had very good talks with putin and i've had not such good talks with ukraine, and they don't have any cards, but they play it tough. >> trump also today finally admitting it was not ukraine who started russia's war with ukraine. >> russia attacked, but they shouldn't have let them attack. >> nick paton walsh is outfront in kyiv. nick, you have been covering this from the beginning. it has been a head spinning three days amid these mixed messages from the white house. what is ukraine saying about the latest attacks from the president? >> yeah, they've not responded directly. i think this is absolutely a bid by ukraine to calm this all down. but regardless of their bid over the last 24 hours to get back on track with trump's envoy here, keith kellogg talking about their negotiations, zelenskyy is being productive, saying that

they've restored hope in the alliance here, even though so much of this is now focused on whether or not ukraine will sign up to a rare earth and resources deal, that it does appear to be pretty much not in its favor for now, although negotiations continue. we are, of course, still hearing from trump these pretty relentless at this stage, disparaging comments about president zelenskyy himself. that is remarkable, frankly, particularly the statements we've heard about him suggesting that zelenskyy has no cards and that trump is sick of it, and that the meetings that he's been in for three years, he's not managed to achieve anything. so he shouldn't be at them anymore. a consistent suggestion that zelenskyy is somehow the problem when it comes to peace, and that somehow russia, who invaded ukraine, are indeed the ones who would easily stop the war. that runs counter to so much of the assessments of ukraine and its own allies, and indeed the biden administration itself. we're hearing more details, though, about the visit of general keith kellogg, kept pretty much under wraps and away from the media while he was

here. he met with zelenskyy at great length, and it does appear that this whole rare earth minerals situation has overshadowed this visit, as well as the animosity. clearly on the surface now between trump and zelenskyy. but kellogg visited a hospital for the military wounded while he was here. a pool reporting there shows that he visited some wounded soldiers, amputees receiving prosthetics. one of them, according to this pool reporting, asked if it was okay to trust russia in negotiations like this, and kellogg paraphrased here, essentially said, look, wars end through negotiations, so they have to try and give something like this a chance. brianna. >> nick paton walsh in kyiv for us tonight. thank you so much. and outfront now, john bolton, former national security advisor to trump, pardon me. also former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., ambassador bolton, uh, you know why, in your experience, why do you think trump is attacking zelenskyy like this? and what kind of damage could this be

doing? >> well, he's attacking zelenskyy because he doesn't like him, and he hasn't liked him since the famous perfect phone conversation in the summer of 2019 about basically threatening to withhold u.s. security assistance to ukraine unless zelenskyy and his government cooperated in the hunt for hillary clinton's computer server and all the other things in that big bowl of spaghetti that people like rudy giuliani were feeding to trump. on the other hand, trump believes he and vladimir putin are good friends. after all, just a day or two ago, he said that putin he felt putin was sincere about wanting peace. he trusted him, and he thought that if putin didn't want peace, he would tell him, uh, people search for policy reasons on what trump does. there are no policy reasons. trump believes that if he has good relations with a foreign head of state, the united states has good relations with that country. and

conversely, if he doesn't have good relations with a foreign head of state, we're we're in trouble with that country. so it's unfortunately pretty straightforward, pretty simple minded. but that's donald trump. >> and trump says zelenskyy, he has no cards to play. he's not important in peace negotiations that putin wants to negotiate but doesn't have to because if he wanted, he'd get the whole country. we know he tried and wasn't able to, although he's certainly making progress. you have been in this position of working with trump's set of alternative facts and sort of the situation that you just described. so how do these american negotiators manage this and still come up with a workable deal? is it possible? >> well, i think they could. i think there will be a workable deal because trump and putin will agree to it. and the question is then whether they can impose it on zelenskyy. i think the test of those who are

working for trump today when he says something like zelenskyy is a dictator. only 4% of the population of ukraine support him and various other things, he said, which come almost directly from the russian propaganda machine. what are the people around him say? do they try and say, well, actually he has a lot more than 4%, you know, actually the country's at war. that's why they're not holding elections. there are thousands of things they have to correct. are they making the effort and failing, which is possible, or are they just not making the effort and saying, yes, sir, which i fear is more likely the outcome? trump will make up the set of facts that he wants and and expect everybody else to conform to them. >> we heard from national security adviser mike waltz, he said that ukraine will agree to this rare earth minerals deal. he was adamant about it. the white house is pressuring them to sign. the u.s. gets 50% of the revenue for ukraine's natural resources as payback for past military aid. let's listen to part of this.

>> here's the bottom line. president zelenskyy is going to sign that deal, and you will see that in the very short term. and that is good for ukraine. >> do you see ukraine signing that without security guarantees about the future? >> well, they shouldn't sign it, but they may feel so pressured that they have no alternative since we don't know what the deal actually says, it's pretty difficult to comment on it. but one can say, in a normal world, you don't extort your friends. you know, i have i have no objection in principle to seeking some kind of compensation for the united states, for the aid that it's given, although it was given in the biden administration without strings. but leaving that aside, you know, if you go back to what the united states did when saddam hussein invaded kuwait in 1990, we went out to our friends

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>> tonight accused united healthcare ceo luigi mangione entering court with shackles on his hands and feet today and wearing a green sweater and a bulletproof vest. crowds gathering for hours chanting mangione name outside the courtroom today, many also wearing green to show their support. during today's 20 minute hearing, his lawyer, karen friedman agnifilo arguing mangione is not being granted the right to a fair trial, saying that mangione is being treated differently than other defendants. i want to go straight to kara scannell, who is in that courtroom today. kara, you were on the 15th floor with mangione today. what more can you tell us about what happened inside of court? >> well, brianna, as you said, he walked in, flanked by security, wearing a bulletproof vest and and his ankles and wrists both shackled inside. the prosecutor's focused on the evidence that they've recovered and have begun turning over to mangione defense team, including police body cam footage. some of

surveillance videos also say dna evidence and records from a cell phone that they recovered at the crime scene. the new york hilton hotel, where the united healthcare ceo was gunned down. they also said they were turning over some of the materials that they received from the pennsylvania police, who searched mangione when he was arrested at that mcdonald's. and that is where his lawyer started to carve out what some of her legal strategy here might be. she was saying that she thinks that mangione was illegally searched, and that this evidence should not come into trial. the judge saying he's going to set a motion schedule, that they'll be back in court at the end of june, where they can make some of these legal arguments and he might rule. then the whole hearing took just about 20 minutes. but, brianna, the scene here began hours earlier. we talked to some spectators who showed up in support of mangione, some wearing free mangione scarves. some had said they had lined up as early as 5 a.m. to try to get inside that courtroom. only about two dozen

of them actually made it in, but the hallway was lined with supporters. majority of them young and female. and outside there were more supporters. they were chanting free luigi that we could even hear when we were inside that courtroom for just that 20 minute hearing. but as this case is moving forward, there is no trial date yet set. but everyone will be back in this courthouse at the end of june. brianna. >> all right. kara scannell, thank you. and joining us now, cnn legal analyst, criminal defense attorney joey jackson. joey, in all your years as a criminal defense attorney. have you ever seen a spectacle like this crowd, young women cheering, screaming outside of court? even mangione lawyer was cheered as she arrived. >> yes. so, brianna, it's been 25 years, some as a prosecutor, most as a defense attorney, and i have never seen this. i think it really has struck a chord. and because of the whole implication of the health care industry, people's feelings about it, the fact that it's

known for profit, it rejects claims people die. i think people have really gravitated towards that. so it's highly unusual. i think it's unprecedented. luigi, we saw. right. brianna, the actual footage where it appears to be an assassination, that's no matter. he seems to have a lot of support, and that could certainly translate to people being on that jury. and that could certainly translate to getting into a verdict if it goes really that distance, it could resolve itself before that. we don't know. but it could have implications legally to his case. that is people's sympathy towards him. >> mangione, his lawyer, is blasting the nypd, saying it was, quote, shocking to see an hbo documentary about the case that featured new york city mayor eric adams and nypd chief of detectives in full hair and makeup, as she put it, talking about evidence that she didn't yet have. is this a problem for the nypd? >> yeah, it's it's somewhat outrageous. i mean, just from an

objective point of view. think about that, brianna. you have a case that's proceeding. you don't even have all of the discovery. that is the evidence that's possessed by pennsylvania, by new york, by certainly the feds. collectively, you need to evaluate that, and it needs to be turned over. and they're on a documentary speaking about things that his defense attorneys don't even know. talk about being prejudicial. talking about really polluting a jury, talking about having preconceived notions in this country. it's the presumption of innocence. yes. we saw what we saw on videotape. that could be a lot more to it. let's see the defense play out. but that certainly is not a good optic. and it's not good practice. it's not good form for the nypd, the mayor or anyone else to be talking about substantive evidence as the case is proceeding. >> yes. so unusual. joey jackson, thank you so much. >> thanks, brianna. >> and also tonight, a judge has declined to dismiss the criminal case against new york city mayor eric adams. instead, judge dale ho is leaving the charges

intact, and he's appointing an outside attorney to argue against the trump doj decision to drop the charges against adams. outfront now, ryan goodman, just security, coeditor in chief. and, ryan, the judge did not dismiss the charges against adams today, even though he himself said he doesn't have much discretion in the case. does that signal to you that he may not ultimately dismiss it? >> it does signal that to me for a couple of reasons. first, the judge is setting up a process, and that process might kind of reveal information that will be hard to turn away from. if that process reveals an underlying an underlying illicit quid pro quo between the justice department and mayor adams, then i think he can't turn away from that. and then the law does allow the judge to reject the dismissal if it's against the public interest, and that's what might happen. and then the person that he picked as well might mean that this is actually going to be an advocate who will present strong evidence and strong arguments on the other side of the equation.

>> yeah. so this is, uh, the role will be presenting arguments against the doj. this is paul clement. can you tell us a little bit more about him? >> so he is a tried and true conservative lawyer. he was solicitor general of the united states as well as acting attorney general. he has appeared before the supreme court many times. and one thing that's quite elegant about judge ho's ruling is judge ho says, i pick paul clement, and then he gives us a citation. the citation is the u.s. supreme court in 2020, under a very similar circumstance, in which both parties were in the same page. and so he didn't have an adversarial, they didn't have an adversarial hearing. and the supreme court picks paul clement. so he has a direct quote from the supreme court saying, in this kind of situation, we need an adversarial process, and we choose paul clement and judge ho picks paul clement. i think that's a really strong indication that they'll get a formidable argument, and he'll be able to have a fulsome

process, elegant. >> we who doesn't like elegant? and then ryan, at the heart of all of this are these allegations of a quid pro quo that the trump administration would clear adams of criminal charges if the mayor went along with trump's immigration crackdown? are these the arguments that you expect we're going to hear? >> yes, i do, and there was a remarkable moment in the hearing, which i attended earlier this week, in which emil bove, the assistant deputy attorney general, actually says before judge ho that it doesn't even matter if there was a quid pro quo. he says, quote, i don't concede and i don't think it's correct that even if there was a quid pro quo, there would be any issue within this motion, end quote. that's remarkable. he's actually saying even if we did it, you still have to uphold our motion. and i think that's exactly why the judge will, in all likelihood say, i need to go below just the documents you submitted me to me. i need to look at the other documents that are internal doj documents, but they're in the public record. and in fact, one of the questions that he says that

he'll entertain is whether or not he should look at those documents. and i think it would be a very bad decision if the justice department says he should not, because it's just something that is ordinary for a judge to look at. and i think the department of justice actually invites it by saying, oh, you know, just even if it's a quid pro quo, it's fine. i think there are some quid pro quos that might be fine, but not the alleged one. >> that's really interesting. ryan goodman, thank you. >> thank you. >> outfront next, a vaccine safety panel postponing a major meeting with virus experts. and it comes just days after vaccine skeptic rfk jr. became the nation's top health official. plus, is china on the verge of another stunning breakthrough, this time when it comes to treating cancer? >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you? new tomorrow on cnn. >> this is the emirates premium economy seat. economy. perhaps

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at more firings to come at the top levels of the military, he says i have also directed secretary hegseth, that is the new defense secretary, to solicit nominations for five additional high level positions, which will be announced soon. as we reported earlier this week, there are several names amongst the joint chiefs of staff that are on a list circulated to some republican lawmakers that could be fired. it is also worth noting that trump says on social media he will nominate lieutenant general dan razin caine to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs. he is a retired three star, so it's a fairly unprecedented step here to nominate him to be the top u.s. military officer, not only a three star, but also someone who, as of a few months ago was retired. >> yeah. very unusual. oren liebermann, thank you for that report on that breaking news. and this does come, as we're also learning tonight that a key cdc committee that studies vaccines was told to cancel its meeting next week on the agenda. flu, rsv and covid 19 vaccines. this comes just days after

vaccine skeptic rfk jr. was sworn in as hhs secretary. no new date has been set and the postponement is raising major alarms. outfront now, doctor paul offit, he's the director of the vaccine education center at the children's hospital of philadelphia. he's also on the fda's vaccine advisory committee. uh, just tell us, doctor, what are the implications of this meeting being indefinitely postponed? >> well, you worry that it represents something bigger. i mean, in. project 2025, the cdc is targeted basically to eliminate them as a recommending body for vaccines. so now you have an important meeting and it is important, you know, the the they were going to discuss, for example, influenza. this has been a very bad influenza year. we've had 310,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths. that's worse than the 2009 swine flu pandemic. why do we have a bad match between the vaccine and the circulating strains? is it that people

aren't getting vaccinated? what's happening? you know, the physician out in the field isn't going to intuit that. they need to know that from these experts, and it worries me that this is just step one in what will be a series of steps to weaken or arguably eliminate the cdc as a body that recommends vaccines for children. >> i want to play some of what republican senator bill cassidy said during rfk's confirmation hearing that ultimately, he said, convinced him to vote yes. >> if confirmed, he will maintain the centers for disease control and prevention's advisory committee on immunization practices recommendations without changes. >> does it sound to you like rfk jr. plans to make good on what cassidy seems to think was a promise? >> no. and worse, now you're hearing that he is considering either replacing or firing members of the cdc, cdc, acip, advisory committee for immunization practices if they

have perceived conflicts of interest. perceived by whom? by him. you really get the feeling or fear that he's just people who don't go along with his sort of fixed, immutable, science resistant beliefs like vaccines causing autism, something he never backed off of during those committee hearings for his confirmation. >> let's listen now to some of what rfk jr.. has said about vaccines. >> there's no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective. i do believe that autism does come from vaccines. i see somebody on a hiking trail with a carrying a little baby, and i say to them, better not get them vaccinated. >> what worries you most right now in this moment when it comes to the spread of infectious disease and vaccines? >> well, especially measles. i mean, measles is the most contagious infectious disease. and now you're seeing outbreaks in west texas and five other states. it's now spread to new mexico. i mean, this is a man who, when there was an outbreak in samoa that killed 83 people,

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