leverage his skepticism and relative political independence with the most valid criticisms of the american health care witticism, put into constructive -- health care system, put into constructive reforms. the lack of effort to build consensus about what the country did well during the pandemic and what to avoid next time, missed opportunity for a closure to a difficult era while preparing for the next pandemic. more in the new york times today. that is just one cabinet position. we are asking you, what do you think will be the most important cabinet position and a second trump administration? robin in maryland, good morning, republican. caller: good morning. i cannot decide between department of defense and homeland security. i think both of the choices were excellent. pete hegseth is a true patriot. he loves america. he has two bronze stars. i think he did a great job. i think he will do a great job. and the current head of the dod went awol for five days and lied to his boss about where he was. so i certainly think pete hegseth will be great. kristi noem, i think she is great. head of dhs here

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of american society on the health american citizens could far out last. any term in office sector team so fast. you know, you mentioned met, gets we're also talking about or if you junior, if they went to send an approval. um, will this be a further dismantling of democratic guard rails, in your opinion? well, this is an interesting question because the senate is composed of many loyalties to trumpet has a republican majority, but nonetheless, it is its job to act as a check and a balance on the president. and one of the ways you're that is supposed to do that just by betting his appointment. so the president has the right to pick fully wants to serve inherited cabinet post. what is the sentence job to confirm? we're not confirm those appointments. now, some of these appointments are, are seen is kind of me by some people, but certainly with in kind of the realm of republican or conservative possibility. but others gets me r a k policy gathered. these are people who are not just kind of extreme in their views, but who are incompetent, have no experience i

of american society on the health american citizens could far out last. any term in office sector team so fast. you know, you mentioned met, gets we're also talking about or if you junior, if they went to the senate approval, will this be a further dismantling of democratic guard rails, in your opinion? well, this is an interesting question because the senate is composed of many loyalties to trumpet, has a republican majority, but nonetheless, it is its job to act as a check and a balance on the president. and one of the ways you're that it's supposed to do that just by betting his appointment. so the president has the right to pick only wants to serve inherited cabinet post. what is the sentence job to confirm? we're not confirm those appointments. now, some of these appointments are, are seen is kind of me by some people, but certainly with in kind of the realm of republican or conservative. possibly what others gets me are a k policy gathered. these are people who are not just kind of extreme in their views, but who are incompetent, have no experience

because my belief is it's the american diet causing a lot of these economic issue and the health issue and we could save a lot of money if all americans tomorrow decided to go on a healthy diet we would save a lot of money. we talk about inflation and we look at the cost of inflation in terms of food, most of the inflation is higher in things like fats and processed meats, inflation for fresh produce and unprocessed meats is much lower. we eat so much more than we need to and all of these statistics say 30% of americans are overweight, 42% are obese. tilden born today have a 50% chance of being diabetic. so your book i think is important in talking about that how it could help us from a health care cost perspective, and overall economic perspective what would be the three things you would suggest to robert kennedy to get implemented right away policy wise. host: it is important to note to the public that poor diet now is the leading risk factor for mortality in the united states. it surpassed cigarette smoking and 2019. probably the most important arguably health policy issue that we a

united states, the health secretary has a profound influence on the health insurance of all americans. so you overseas medicare, so this is gonna have a very large effect on the health of the american people. you are a former white house cobit coordinator for the bite administration. i remember seeing you on television a lot during the pandemic. part of the public health campaign to, to make sure people knew what was going on. can you imagine another pandemic happening with both donald trump as president and robert kennedy junior as health secretary? would that be a nightmare scenario in your opinion? it would certainly make things dramatically harder and let's go back to 2020. when we had the pen demik the, the, the silver lining, the one part of the pen, and make that response from donald trump. that worked very well was the development of these vaccines operation work speed, the majority of vaccine, the biotech pfizer vaccine. those were driven by donald trump. i cannot imagine with, with robert kennedy now in the secretary of health seed us doing something like that again. so it w

he is somewhat anti-big pharma and anti-using medications and drugs to sort of fix american health carend chronic disease. that is one of the things that we are seeing now. we do not know what that will look like in terms of policy but it has affected the drugmaker stocks. sonali: let's talk more about the company's. on a closing basis we are seeing pfizer's stock down the most since december. who are the biggest losers in this scenario? madison: one of the big things are vaccines. pfizer, biontech, moderna, the big vaccine makers. rfk has also been critical of ozempic. he has had some tweets about ozempic. that is something we could see down the line. it is interesting, he is also on the flipside of that, there was an op-ed he wrote in the wall street journal that said he is in support of lowering the price of drugs and named ozempic as an example. as we have talked about it is more expensive in the u.s. than other countries. we do not know what will happen yet. he has said he is supportive of lowering drug prices but does not want us to rely on drugs like ozempic. sonali: what are you

we're really focused on silos in the american health care medical and surgical subspecialties. and what happens is we miss the forest for the trees of the root causes of what's making americans sick. and i think what happened on election day this year is that americans came out and said, we want to bend the curve of the chronic disease epidemic that is destroying american potential. and i think rfk represents someone who's willing to take that on >> now, look if he had said, look, i'm going to ban vaccines, i would be very against it. but he said, just the other day, he said no choice. if you want them, you have them. it's not going to be mandated. that's i think, what a lot of people object to do before. i mean, i've said it many times, there are some pathogens that if they were going around, i would fight you for the vaccine. right. and there are others that, you know, i just didn't want like the one we just had but you said so many things there that like, i feel like i've been saying for many years and people kind of look at you like you're crazy because i think they just ar

could be put in charge of health when he is a vaccine denier and caused great harm to the american public. i want to say finally that i'm very concerned that someone that wants to gut the nih, hhs and other services could be put in charge of health of any kind in this country. so i want to thank you, sir, for your service. at the njt ih. and all witnesses here and with that i yield back. >> now recognize mr. cloud from texas for five minutes of questioning. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you all for being here to discuss the lessons learned through the covid pandemic. together you all represent the bulk of the government's response to covid. or you represent the agencies that were the bulk of the response. and the american people are very concerned about the government's response. you know, there was a lot of understanding the first couple weeks this was novel and we had to figure it out, but once the outbreak kept going we saw -- we saw attempts to cover up, we saw blatantly policymaking, and we saw americans getting deceptive advice while their civil liberties were being trampled

we're destroying the doctor-patient relationship and destroying american health care. if you want to save it, we need to embrace health care freedom. in our reconciliation package we must be aggressive and expansive. pull out the bias towards the employer-provided care by making it to where the employers can give employees the same subsidy for the same tax break into a health savings account. an american citizen who doesn't work for a big corporation can put their money for the same tax yeah in the same health savings account and they can take that and go to the market and pay for a doctor or medicine or primary care and get health care. right now the american people aren't getting it. the american people are getting screwed and getting fatter and sicker and unhealthy because of government bureaucracy and government regulation and because we refuse as republicans to deliver what we've been saying for three decades that we'd get government out of the way. it's not about appealing obamacare, it's about appealing the alphabet soup of government regulation that's constraini

going to be running this sprawling massive federal agency that is responsible for the leads of americans health amna: that sprawling agency means he is in charge of medicare, medicaid, the children's health program, overseeing the health care exchanges. >> it is a fascinating pig because it is as you say a celebrated surgeon -- a fascinating pic because it is as you say is limited surgeon. . it is a regulatory agency and insurance provider. he is going to have immense influence over many of the levers of government it comes to providing health care up you he is going to be reporting if both are confirmed to robert f. kennedy, jr. who would be serving as health secretary. it is going to be easy -- to going to be itching to see how they work together. in some senses they are aligned. in others they have not your dog's has been supportive of vaccines against covid, measles, mumps, rubella so whether there are certain issues it turns out he is at odds with the republican mainstream and the trump administration as well as with rfk, that is unknown still. amna: this is an agency that covers more than

health. the more basic ways americans are provided with health care, access medicine and medical care and thesere about as outside the mainstream as you could conceive of for picks to run the health department and centers for medicare and medicaid services. amna: thank you so much. >> thanks. ♪ vanessa: here are the latest headlines. president biden has approved delivery of anti-personal -- to ukraine. the decision reverses the president's own policy. some human rights groups are criticizing it. more than 160 countries have signed a treaty banning the use of landmines, but the u.s. and russia are not signatories. on capitol hill today fema's , administrator said she is pushing for an investigation into political bias in her agency's relief efforts. >> seems to me it is part of a mindset in government. vanessa: in two separate hearings, house members grilled deanne criswell about a fema employee who was fired earlier this month. a text message shows the person directed workers to avoid homes advertising trump while providing hurricane relief in florida. the employee has said she was following fe

and this job, right, this job, the head of health and human services, is supposed to instill trust. you know, for the americanelieve in the health care system. and when you have someone, you know, who himself doesn't trust science or research, building the public's trust around things like the cdc or nih or the fda, the agencies that we most need to protect and regulate, the health care for everyone in this country, is really alarming. you know, we have seen the uptick in misinformation around birth control, around abortion, around, you know, just basic, basic medicines that we use every single day and have proven effective. and so, you know, it is important for us at planned parenthood, as a trusted messenger around sexual and reproductive health care to continue to stand in the breach and correct the misinformation so that patients can get the care that they need. >> so, alexis, we've talked a lot on this show, in the last two days about what these senate confirmation hearings are going to look like, and to role that democratic senators and some republican senators are going to be able to play when it comes

native american health and indian ed program.o hire our youth and -- that come in through programs and now at our organizations. michael is our program cord narrator and are does the community out reach and a lot of set and up bring our community in because he knows everybody and has family in the community. i'm grateful for michael and i want to give gratitude to him as well. [applause] >> i said earlier there has been a lot going on as we got through n an election here. and there has been some feelings of just i'm trying not to be bad because i fl like as native people we have been so resilient through many challenges we had throughout our community. our people survived boarding schools, genocide and we are still here. and it is through this municipality here in san francisco, it is through the support of our city and county partners and our native organizations like it is native american health center. can i have leaders of that center stand if you are here in the room. i love to amrud those leaders doing the work for our clie

when they look at the state of american health, we know that america suffers from larger rates of obesity and overweight, overweight us, then you would see and perhaps other countries that there are diseases associated with that, that they're suffering from. he speaks that, that he speaks very convincingly, but he also in the same breath, he speaks against vaccines and a lot of a stablish medicine that the committee experts say you can't do that, that, that doesn't work. i think what we're seeing is really just kind of he speaks to a crowd who in english has benefit over decades from the advances of vaccines and from from medicine itself. right. we used have a problem with polio in the us. yeah. we just have more problems with measles. we haven't as much since vaccines have been taken out, but because these generations don't have personal experience. they've lost that kind of institutional memory of that. and so a lot of these things maybe haven't been explained effectively and into this gap come someone like a, an artist k junior, who can exploit that at the we only have a couple of seco

native american health and indian ed program.nd now working at our organizations. michael is our program cord narrator and are does the community out reach and a lot of set and up bring our community in because he knows everybody and has family in the community. i'm grateful for michael and i want to give gratitude to him as well. [applause] >> i said earlier, there has been a lot going on as we got through n an election here. and there has been some feelings of just i'm trying not to bead because i feel like as native people we have been so resilient through many challengesroughout. our people survived boarding schools, genocide and we are still here. and it is through this municipality here in san francisco, it is through the support of our city and county partners and our native organizations like it is native american health center. can i have leaders of that center stand if you are here in the room. i love to amrud those leaders doing the work for our clients. i see michelle ma. she is a leader our elder. >> and aroaral be h

the head of a leading american health foundation has said the appointment would pose incredible riskshealth of the united states. the kennedy scion still needs to be confirmed by the senate. bbc verify�*s merlyn thomas looks now at the controversial claims he has made in the past. as donald trump prepares to enter the white house, those he chooses to bring with him will have an impact on millions of americans. robert f kenneder has been nominated as donald trump's health secretary in his second presidential term. this is what trump said about rfkjr in his victory speech. robert f kenneder, he came in. and he's going to help make america healthy again. cheering. rfkjr is an environmental lawyer and part of the kennedy dynasty. he's been a vaccine sceptic for nearly two decades and has shared misinformation on a range of public health issues. now, one of his main false claims, repeated in a 2023 interview with fox news, was that autism comes from vaccines. multiple studies across many countries have concluded there is no link between vaccines and autism. rfkjr has denied on several occa

what that would mean for the american people, insurance companies could go back to a time when they would deny you coverage for health insurance based on pre-existing conditions such as being a survivor of breast cancer, asthma, diabetes. the american people regardless of who they are voting for know the importance of obamacare in terms of expanding coverage to health care, based on the fundamental principle i hold deeply, access to health care should be a right and not just a privilege for those who can afford it. there is still work to do. each day, there are indications we are receiving from my opponent that verify, validate and reinforce the fact that he will not be fighting for women's reproductive rights, he does not prioritize the freedom of women and the intelligence of women to make decisions about their own lives and bodies and health care for all americans is on the line in this election. i will take your questions. >> since the beginning stages of your campaign you describe yourself as an underdog. that language is gone from your speech. has something changed? v.p. harris: no. i am putting it on the field

, the world, and this is a rage, the kids we need to bring donald trump to washington, a fake american health. and for war, i'm joined now by my colleagues, even beardsley from our dw election team, stephen trump nomination of our k junior. not a huge surprise, but could you explain why it is sold, unconventional, when they call in some ways it should be conventional. kennedy is back in a place of high power if he's approved from the nomination. he comes from america's most famous political dynasty, the kennedys. his uncle was president john f kennedy. his father was robert f. kennedy, who was united states senator, he was a us attorney general. he was assassinated when robert f. kennedy junior was 14 years old. he was appall, bear for his father, or k junior, was 9 years old when his uncle was assassinated. so we seen a lot, and there a lot of conspiracy theories floating around both those deaths which he's also paddled in a little bit. he is unconventional because of the belief that he espouses for things like vaccines. and this is a man who actually has a very traditional, a very inspiring

health care costs on their well-being as they retire. let's look a gender and race. incredibly, bipoc americansowler percent report poor quality care within the last year. that is up 11 points from 2022. more than half of bipoc has sought a second opinion after feeling their original provider dismissed their health care concerns. what is incredibly sobering to see is when we ask, how much do you agree the following factors negatively impact the quality of health care you receive? race is a 47 point swing between black-and-white americans. this is the world we live in. plus with gender, you see this, it takes women three point nine years to get a diagnosis for chronic illness. for men it is 2.4 years. a lot of this is perception but perceptions are reality and that is the work we have to do. esther talked about ai, it is really exciting for doctors and for patients. but really, it is about people. look at the data on the right. in a survey, 92% of americans say pas should be allowed to provide quality care to the list extent of their education. 91% believe fully utilizing pas improves patient he

american politics — to top jobs in his administration. among the latest names, is robert f kennedyjunior, for health secretary — a prominent vaccine scepticreat mind" and will make america healthy again. the backlash has been significant — the executive director of the american public health association says, he and his organisation will "absolutely oppose" the president elect�*s appointment, of rfkjr, as health secretary. i'v e i've been talking to a staff writer at the atlantic. he gave me his assessment of donald trump's latest peck. it tells me that the president elect is making spiteful pics at this point. he's ——. br warning the enemies of the existing, not only the existing american government as it's been constituted for decades. also he is trolling. there is just no other way to put this. he is intentionally throwing people out, specifically to generate trauma and controversy and rage because he he thinks if they are angry he's winning. this isn't a tv show any more. this isn't a tv show any more. this isn't a rally. these are peoples lives in the balance. this particular nomination is a direct threat to the health of hundreds of

about a third of american health insurance with medicare, medicaid and the marketplace is. mental health, the agency on aging, agencies on unaccompanied minors, children and families. it is a very broad and very important agency. to have someone coming into a scientific agency that is a vaccine skeptic and may well undo decades of public health work, i think it is terrifying for the american public who rely on h.h.s. from cradle to grave for resources, information, public health, oversight of our food and medicines. that to me is a very frightening aspect for the american public. >> you had encounters with robert f kennedy in the past. what were they like? >> i took some courtesy meetings with him. he went several times to the c.d.c. and the f.d.a. suggesting that their evidence was faulty and that he had evidence of his own, all of which was debunked and refuted about vaccines. he insisted that i fire people. that they were lying to me. that i really wasn't getting the truth. that did not approve in my mind to be at all true. what i am most frightened about is he comes not

obamacare if trump wins" which would have the effect, if they were to win, to put millions of americans off their healthnsurance, throw americans off their health insurance, take us back to that time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions. do you remember what that was? well. we are not going back. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting we are not going back] and we are not going back, because ours is a fight for the future! [cheers and applause] and it is a fight for freedom. like the fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body, and not have her government tell her what to do. [cheers and applause] and we all remember how we got here. when donald trump was president he hand selected three members of the u.s. supreme court with the intention that they would undo the protections of roe v. wade, they did as he intended, and now in america one in three women live in a state with a trump abortion ban. many with no exceptions, even for rape and incest, which is immoral. and he's not done. did anyone hear what he just said yesterday? he said,

we note the profound impact public health emergencies and our ability have on american lives this caness to food and medical products to the value and importance of vaccines come therapeutics and diagnostics to address those public health threats reduce suffering ultimately save lives. the additional authorities and funding requested in the fiscal year 2025 presidents budget are necessary to address future public health threats effectively. specifically for fda are public health preparedness priorities are one, providing greater transparency into supply chain. two, fostering a medical countermeasure development and three, ensuring operational readiness and surger capacity within the agency. so first, supply chain. we need greater transparency into supply chains to ensure access to critical medical products. supply chains are subject to a range of market forces that are well be on fda scope. for example generic drugs particularly sterile injectables are most vulnerable to shortage. we know this. that is due including competition, investment needs and uncertain demand. all dynamics be o

the executive director of the american public health association says he and his organisation will "absolutelyappointment of robert f kenneder as health secretary. let's remind ourselves of some of the other key announcements made in the last few days. marco rubio as secretary of state, the former democrat, tulsi gabbard, for director of national intelligence and matt gaetz as attorney general. several of the posts will require senate approval. let's speak to cbs news correspondent in new york, jarred hill. i guess a lot of controversial appointments but rfk i guess a lot of controversial appointments bsupport get to have enough support to get confirmed? there are a lot of folks who say that they like what he is talking about but is he the right person to run this massive big bureaucratic organisation, that is the department of health and human services. we will have to wait and see. , . services. we will have to wait and see-— services. we will have to wait andsee. , ., ., ., and see. does that go for some ofthe and see. does that go for some of the other— and see. does that go for some of th

georges dog benjamin, executive director of the american public health association, and he said thatnti-vaccine rhetoric and the potential policies he might might prioritize could have very dangerous . ramifications. >> rfk jr. has been on the record of saying there's no safe and effective vaccine. and, because of that, people are not going to take vaccines. even if he was to change his tune and promote vaccines, no one will know what to believe. so rfk is not the person for this job. he doesn't have the medical training, the skill of managing a large organization, and he is not a well-trusted individual. and because of that, we're going to see more people get sick, and i'm really, really concerned that more people will die. laura: dr. benjamin said that a lot of what the federal government does is by influence. it's not necessarily by regulation. when so when health guidances are put out or encouragement of an education of the public to receive vaccines, and so doctors like georges benjamin, as well as pediatrician paul offit, who i spoke to earlier this year, said that there are bi

american politics — to topjobs in his administration. among the latest names, is robert f kennedyjunior, for health secretary — a prominent vaccine scepticat mind" and will make america healthy again. the backlash has been significant — the executive director of the american public health association says, he and his organisation will "absolutely oppose" the president—elect�*s appointment, of rfkjr, as health secretary. rowan bridge reports.

former editorial writer for bloomberg 0pinion robert, what is this going to mean for the health care that americansare that americans receive? well, that is the million _ americans receive? well, that is the million dollar _ americans receive? well, that is the million dollar question | is the million dollar question a lot of people are asking right now. things that have been settled policy going back 50, 60 years on childhood vaccination for example, it potentially could be threatened with robert f kennedyjunior running everything. what has created some certain cultural criticism of robert kennedy junior is that many conservatives, many conservatives, many conservative supporters of president trump are somewhat worried that he was selected because he is very pro abortion as the pro—life movement would put it, they think it sends a bad message in terms of the republican administration that are supposed to be supportive of life. you are getting some criticism from both sides. it is probably of all the appointment so far, it is the second,it appointment so far, it is the second, it is has created the

remember all the americans, all the people working in health will continue to work in health. and we work closely and productively with united states government in response to all sorts of things. including disease outbreaks like mother of a good or a wind in polio, and garza and these things are going to continue. what would have being an anti banks are in a position to power such as the secretary of health and human services? would that make your efforts at the w h o more difficult because the goal of course is to get everyone vaccinated is to stop diseases from spreading wood and r as t junior in power. would that make that effort more difficult? i remember we have a 190 full member states and we say have the governments have different constituents and they come and go because most countries in the world are democracies and governments do change. and we guess a lot of diversity of opinion, but the people who really work in health are strongly technical people who understand the science. so regardless of what comes and goes and governments, the work happens, the community le

the american public health association says it will campaign to gaze his appointment, accusing him of a lack of competence. segers trump has picked up so far. thank gary bozza gestured views and loyalty of the things that matter most. and we're going to turn our country around, we're going to make it so great, so strong, so powerful. we're going to bring it all back. full of tramps, cabinet donations will still be subject to confirmation by the senate. where republicans command a majority of law and translators choice. i'm not joined by my colleagues, steve busy from all us selection teams even. um kennedy uh, junior, has said a quote no vaccine. there is no vaccine that is safe and effective, and trump wants to put them in charge of america's public health. why? i think that's part of the deal. first of all, as far as we know is that when our f k junior pledged his support to trump, he ended his bid as an independent to become president. before that he was trying to become president on the us democratic ticket that didn't work out either. he saw where his chances were going and so he

the american public health association says it will contain the gays, his appointment, accusing him of a lack of competence. with the fingers, trump has picked up so far. thank everybody. so gestured views and loyalty, the things that matter most. and then we're going to turn our country around. we're going to make it shows rates so strong, so powerful. we're going to bring it all back. full of tramps, cabinet donations will still be subject to conformation by the senate where republicans command a majority of all right, here's a reminder of our top story, jimmy chance are luck. sholtes and russian president vladimir putin spoke today on the phone. it's their 1st direct contact in nearly 2 years the to discuss the board and ukraine with schultz demanding that inclusion withdrawal russian forces. this is the w two's. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news. so i hope to see you then the we are all set and we are watching to see all the to bring you the story behind the new, the will on about come by as information for free might say, due to me in the camels have a reput

american politics — to topjobs in his administration. among the latest names, is robert f kennedyjunior, for health secretary — a prominent vaccine scepticiracy theorist. donald trump said — rfkjr has a "great mind" and will make america healthy again. the backlash has been significant — the executive director of the american public health association says, he and his organisation will "absolutely oppose" the president elect�*s appointment, of rfkjr, as health secretary. we were talking about jaw—dropping appointments. and it continues with this pick for health secretary. already so many opposing voices. figs health secretary. already so many opposing voices. as you sa , many opposing voices. as you say. health — many opposing voices. as you say, health experts _ many opposing voices. as you say, health experts are - many opposing voices. as you | say, health experts are coming out, raising real concerns about the appointment of robert f kennedy about the appointment of robert f kenneder to this post. it is a powerful post, he would be in charge of a budget of $700 billion, he would head up agencies such as the food and drug administratio

skepticism and relative political independence for good to turn his most valid criticisms of american healthuctive reforms. bobby's picking off democrats left and right. >> food in america is making us sick. it's driving the highest levels of disease and suffering in our nation's history. and our food system is putting our farmers in economic crisis. i don't care if you're a democrat, republican, or independent, this isn't a partisan fight. it is literally a fight for our lives. >> jesse: michelle obama had let's move, remember. martha stewart had farm to table. all we want is to look hot, skinny, and healthy. and we don't want our kids picked last in gym. this should be a no-brainer. but big food and big pharma are already trying to kill kennedy's nomination. relying on the senators they've greased over the decades to do what they're told and vote "no." we are in for a massive food fight. chief patent officer for the wellness company dr. drew pinsky joins us now. this looks to be something where people are rallying behind. do you see potential for this to be a bipartisan deal to make us hot

the executive director of the american public health association says he and his organisation will "absolutelyppose" donald trump's appointment of robert f kenneder as health secretary. let's remind ourselves of some of the other key announcements made in the last few days. marco rubio as secretary of state. the former democrat tulsi gabbard, for director of national intelligence. and the controversial appointment of matt gaetz as attorney general. several of the posts will require senate approval. our correspondent, rowan bridge, has the latest. america could soon have a vaccine sceptic who repeated covid—19 conspiracy theories running its health department. robert kenneder comes from democratic party royalty. his uncle was presidentjohn f kennedy and his father was attorney general. mr kennedy made his own name as an environmental lawyer and activist, but that's been overshadowed by his controversial views on vaccines. do i want children to get measles? of course i don't. why do you spread this doubt? because... i'm asking you to be responsible and ask the question. the questions have been a

the american public health association says it will contain the gays, his appointment, accusing him of a lack of competence with the fingers, trump has picked up so far. thank you everybody. so gestured views and loyalty of the things that matter most. and we're going to turn our country around, we're going to making so great, so strong, so powerful. we're going to bring it all back. full of trumps cabinet nominations will still be subject to conformation by the santa where republicans command a majority of our if a more now on drums, controversial cabinet picks. i'm joined by the w. special correspondent. i abraham . she's in washington. i a president elect donald trump is wasting no time in putting his cabinets together. he's basically staying true to his campaign promises . so why are we seeing, you know, so much shock and surprise, especially among some republicans and i think it's because earlier this week there were reports that a r f k junior would actually not be considered for a cabinet position. this reportedly came from somewhere pretty high up within the trump transition te