do you think, you know cassidy's loyalties to trump? um, will outweigh his, i mean, clear concerns that he has about rfk jr.. >> no, i don't think for cassidy, trump loyalty is a factor here really at all. um, he is up for reelection this year, so that is something to be considered. and the idea that if he were to oppose trump, that, you know, that would have some political ramifications potentially. but i think for him, it really is, you know, as he made clear in those exchanges about the medical science and whether and he made this clear in his closing argument at the last hearing, was that he wants to make sure that the megaphone that rfk already has as a public figure, somebody who ran for president, is well known and has a big following, but would have even bigger following in this role if confirmed that he's going to use that, you know, an advance science that's been proven. and particularly, you know, you saw the exchanges about autism. i think it was very frustrating for senator cassidy and others that he hasn't looked into thes

chair moran: senator cassidy. sen. cassidy: mr. golnick, maybe three years ago we had testimony that v.a. was giving people ipads and allowing tele-mental health and setting up satellite offices in a rural area in the back of a walmart. we would be as if you are going to a pharmacy but instead you are not going to the psychologist with a stigma, but instead very discreet. reading your testimony i did not see any reference to that. i will start with you. what about this mental health program? are you familiar with it? mr. golnick: i am, senator. i think there are lots of good options getting out there. again, i'm not anti-telehealth. i think veterans should have the opportunity to have the choice between seeing an in person provider versus a telemedicine care. sen. cassidy: i only mention that because the rural aspect of it -- this is obviously a way to -- so someone doesn't have to drive an hour to get in and miss the appointment. i'm a physician. by the way, ms. marg, does anybody else have experience with the telehealth and is it

you had you had the senator cassidy, who's an actual doctor, saying, i know the data.san saying, we want to know about autism. we want to know about what causes autism. and people like rfk who peddle these conspiracy theories literally stand in the way of getting to the bottom of what causes certain certain diseases. what's your take on how this is proceeding so far? >> yeah. >> it's been really. >> interesting because essentially. mr. kennedy is having to recast the statements he's made for friendlier audiences. >> you know. >> in the. >> anti-vaccine world and on. >> podcasts towards. >> a, you know, these. >> senators and assure them that despite his. >> very long. >> track. >> record of. questioning the. >> safety of vaccines, that he's not going to go. >> into hhs. as an. >> anti-vaccine critic. >> intent on dismantling. >> a core piece of the. >> public health system. >> yeah. and as. >> senator hassan pointed out. every time. we go back to the. >> debunked. >> thoroughly debunked link between vaccines and autism, it. >> prevents us. >> from. doing actual. >> res

and it clearly very much bothered cassidy.f someone like him is a chairman of one of the health committees, votes no, that could spell real trouble for him. and i think cassidy right now is trying to weigh his conscience, his training as a doctor and his interest in public health versus his politics, where obviously in louisiana, voting against a trump nominee is not very good. and i have to note that he's up for reelection and will have a primary coming up soon. so that kind of boils down to the politics of a lot of these people are facing. a lot of these are out of the box nominees, but they all have their own politics that's dominated by trump that they have to confront. >> yeah. to your point, confirmation hearings are a little bit like the supreme court, right? you got to listen to the questions that they're asking. that kind of tells you which way they're going to vote. amisha, should democrats be voting for these nominees at all? should they be getting on board and letting the president have his picks, or should they be

. >> reporter: but cassidy's also a doctor.pposition to vaccines. >> aye been struggling with your nomination. >> reporter: maine's susan collins could be a swing vote on tulsi gabbard. >> i have not made a final decision. she responded well to my questions. >> reporter: democrats doubted whether gabbard would protect the nation's secrets after he lauded one of the biggest raiders of american intelligence. >> she couldn't call edward snowden a traitor. what message would that send to allies around the world? >> reporter: kash patel is likely the easiest to confirm if republicans stick together. also up for vote soon, chris wright for secretary of energy and doug collins to run the rah v.a. both should score bipartisan support. griff? griff: chad pergram live on the hill, thank you. >>> well, for more on the confirmation hearing, let's bring in today's political panel. with us now, prospective strategies' ryan taylor and the president of corcoran treat group president, brad howard. brian, brad, thank you very much. let's get to

i mean, let me just play bill cassidy here. he's talking about rfk jr.. >> my concern is that if there's any false note, any undermining of a mama's trust in vaccines, another person will die from a vaccine preventable disease. and that is why i've been struggling with your nomination. >> he's a doctor. so in a way, this makes sense. but a lot of things don't usually make sense in trumpland, which is where we are. >> well, he did a beautiful questioning of rfk jr.. a much better, i thought, than bernie sanders, who got all red in the face and started sort of spittle flying absolutely everywhere. i thought cassidy did a forensic job of taking his arguments apart one by one. we know he's a terrible influence on the science of medicine and of vaccines, and it's extraordinary that he's been nominated. but i think the biggest critic was his cousin, caroline kennedy, who never says anything about being a kennedy, but who released a video on instagram saying that, you know, he had a life of cheating, of lying, of having second chances

. >> i saw it can never doing it from the left and cassidy on the shelf and hopefully they have a goodrsation. this weekend because i love to see him running the committee. appreciate it and you should be congratulated for the work you've done. thanks, much. up next, the son of cuban immigrants as a messes for those on the left losing it on trump crackdown. one nation. don't move. ♪ he will least when there's war and violence and brokenness, you and i as christians are chosen to minister to love. the wars come and the wars go, but something that never changes is hunger. and you help bring the peace, which she can know. i have something to eat today. welcome to fox news live, i am chinle painter in new york. dive teams part of work searching the river following saturday's midair collision in d.c. sixty-seven people were killed in an army helicopter and passenger jet lag. no one survived. the remains of 42 people have been recovered, 38 identified. investigators are looking into the military pilot and air traffic control. three more israeli hostages including an american are reunited wit

listen to senator cassidy's line of questioning which exposed the fact that rfk junior didn't understand basic facts about how the medicaid program works in this country, who's eligible if there are premiums or not, that's fundamental. listen to james lankford who is concerned about the fact that he was pro-life 20 minutes ago before donald trump offered him the opportunity to have a ton of power and you say the senators are bought and paid for by big pharma, show me where bernie sanders a out from big pharma elizabeth warren. >> what has bernie sanders done for my health for my kids? >> moved to vermont and have a conversation with bernie sanders can deliver but don't be dishonest about it. this felt like the first hearing to me where the senators were 99% of them took it seriously and they had real questions but that's because the range of awfulness or insanity on display and rfk junior is so broad. everything from anti- vaccine which loves to deny they had him on tape over and over again on podcast, rafael warnock repeating him and lyme disease is material engineered by a weapon, pest

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. >> i saw it can never doing it from the left and cassidy on the shelf and hopefully they have a goodweekend because i love to see him running the committee. appreciate it and you should be congratulated for the work you've done. thanks, much. up next, the son of cuban immigrants as a messes for those on the left losing it on trump crackdown. one nation. don't move. ♪ doctor box, there were many failed attempts to fix my teeth. i retouched all my wedding photos, and it was even affecting my health. i trusted you because you specialize in dental implants. you created a permanent solution and customized my teeth so it still felt like me. my new teeth have improved my life and changed my future. - thank you. - you're so welcome. get the smile you want from the number one provider of fixed full arch dental implants in the u.s. schedule a free consultation. to my son, i've never been the cool dad. i always wanted to know what he's up to online. but with tiktok's privacy settings being on by default for teens under 16, accounts are set to private. he cannot send or receive dm's, and only hi

. >> i think senator cassidy should have really serious problems.ould tell he was uncomfortable in the way. >> that he was questioning. >> but tulsi gabbard, republicans kept throwing her a lifeline after lifeline to get her to say that edward snowden, in fact, hurt national security, and she refused to do it. she just kind of doubled down. so all of these nominees have got to give these folks some heartburn, whether or not they will be loyal to the to their oath or to the president remains to be seen. >> carlos, are any of them endangering your judgment? >> i do. >> think. >> that tulsi. >> gabbard is probably. >> in greatest. >> danger when you think about the three senators who. >> voted against pete hegseth. >> mcconnell. >> murkowski and collins. >> i really don't see how gabbard gets. >> any of those three. >> and then we have. >> other senators, like james lankford, who has publicly expressed concerns about gabbard. >> so i. >> think she is going. >> to have a tough time getting confirmed. and i don't think the other. >> two. >> patel and. >>

that would have been bill cassidy, susan collins and mitch mcconnell.sa murkowski has been on the fence. other senators have been on. >> the fence. and as. >> you know, you know, the moment you get to 4 or 5 no's, that's going to be the end of your your nomination. and so she was already on the line, already very precarious. and i don't think that performance did her any favors. >> i also want to talk about kash patel. you wrote that the fbi director nominee refused to say if he would target trump's rivals for investigations, and kind of tried to distance himself from his own previous remarks that were captured on video. how do republican senators react to that? and did they seem to feel he was being disingenuous, or are they trying to come up with a way to give him a pass because they want to show support for the president? >> yeah. >> i. >> mean, in. >> the main, they gave kash patel a pass. look, you know, kash was. someone who, you know, worked in the house, worked in the trump. >> administration. >> has a lot of allies on the hill and also in trump

know, the most interesting thing to me about all of this is the possibility that you have senator cassidyor. >> who's a doctor himself, who clearly was. you saw some of the footage there, was getting frustrated. who could end up being the vote that blocks the. >> vote for him? let's not even pretend. let's move on. >> i have. >> hope refill that mug with something because we've got another busy hour of the weekend ahead. we're going to be joined by marc elias, former justice department prosecutors alexis loeb and ashley occurs, and illinois governor j.b. pritzker. that is all right after this on the weekend. >> work, play. >> blink. >> relief. work. >> play. blink. relief. the only 3 in 1 extended relief formula for dry eyes. blink. >> you push it, you try to slide it. you even try to hold them shut. but your doors just won't stay closed no matter what. >> introducing ruby. >> monkey magnets. brand new ultrathin magnetic plates that will keep your doors and drawers shut, and now may be your last chance to get them at a low price. just peel to reveal the. super strong adhesive. place the m

there was a whole different guy, robert cassidy, new york county counterterrorism official, who was supposed to be named acting director. but the wall street journal reported yesterday that the trump administration actually mixed up which guy was which? they meant to name casey to be director and driscoll to be deputy, but they screwed up and accidentally named driscoll the director and casey the deputy. once those two guys realized that they'd been named for the wrong jobs, they just decided it would be easier to switch to switch jobs and switch offices. so that's how we got brian driscoll as the acting director of the fbi tonight. as former trump defense lawyer emil bove at the justice department, possibly on orders from the white house, has demanded a list of every single fbi agent in the entire country who worked on any january 6th case in any capacity at all. and even though that includes the new acting director and the new acting deputy director, who trump himself just ham handedly accidentally appointed. they say the reason they want that list is because they're going to review it for

i think the proposals by senator cassidy and bennett, the americas act, is also a like-minded thing of latin america's that we can join together in sort of u.s.-mexico canada free trade agreement and i believe that a free-trade agreement of the americas that link modernization of all of our fdas in latin america and the caribbean would help along with an aggressive strategy on saying no government backdoors on making the kind of invest boards -- investments the export impact -- making the kind of investments the export impact -- boost exports, lower consumer costs, most importantly protect our national security. thank you. chair cruz: thank you senator cantwell. our first witness is the chairman of the federal maritime commission. he was recently in panama on a fact-finding mission and can speak to concerning abutments i noted in my opening statement. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you two distinguished members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to speak about the critical importance of the panama canal to u.s. trade and global commerce. i bring a unique per