for oto-department of health and human services to just -- for the department of health and human simplifieso just decide within a closed, walled-off room what's dei and what's not. and i just speculate there's probably going to be a whole bunch more dei research programs in oregon and connecticut than there will be in mississippi or texas. it's just another way to move money away from people who may not line up with your political ideology or your political agenda as a president and hand it to your loyalists and to the people who are with you. and then finally i'll just come back to one of the places that ail started. elong musk and his -- elon musk and his billionaire crowd, they're inside the department of human services right now. right now. an unaccountable billionaire that didn't get elected to anything has access to your most intimate personal information. your medicare records, whether you've seen a doctor, whether you've had a surgery, whether you've had a treatment for mental illness or addiction. elon musk, an unaccounted billionaire, the richest man in the world, he has access to

president, i rise today in strong opposition for president trump's nominee for the department of health and human services, robert f. kennedy jr. the department he has picked to lead is charged with protecting the health of all americans, from safeguarding medicare and nursing home care for seniors, to investigating medical research, to safeguarding the nation's food supply, and supporting public health programs such as lead poisoning prevention and suicide prevention. one of the most important public health inventions over the last century is vaccines, making many deadly and debilitating diseases a thing of the past. the secretary of health and human services has an outside role in making vaccines available to children and adults throughout the and that is something that gives me great pause about mr. kennedy's nomination. for those of us who grew up in the 1950's and 1906's, polio -- 60's, polio was a threat that set fear in literally every home in this country until a doctor invented a vaccine, and it literally saved the lives -- many, many lives of generations of americans. it was approved and it went

gabbard to be director of national intelligence, and then shortly after that we'll have a cloture vote on robert f. kennedy to be secretary of department of health and human services 50e69 of those cases -- in each of those cases, you got democrats, in good standing as recently as a year ago, who have been pushed out, come now they're nominees by president trump for positions within his administration, and you're not going to see a single democrat vote for them. but we will confirm them, and we'll get these people into these positions as soon as possible. and in answer, i think the mandate given by the american people in november, that is they want a different track in this country, a different direction, they have a different set of priorities than is being articulated here in the united states senate. mr. president, we also had recently a vote on laken riley, and that was probably the most glaring example again of democrats' willingness to filibuster something they wanted to get rid of two years ago, they wanted to get rid of the legislative filibuster. we get the majority, first time we put a bill on the floor. what do they do? they filibuster it. so here we ar

and he at most has managed a couple of organizations on their board at their peak with a $30 million budget which is a rounding error in the budget for the department of health and human services. host: critics of rfk junior believe he does not know how medicare and medicaid work. do you share that concern and what do you point to from his testimony? guest: absolutely. he confused medicare with medicaid. medicare is our nations program for seniors, people over the age of 65 and older. medicaid is one of the many programs that we have for people whose incomes are around 138% of the federal poverty level. it does not have premiums. it does not have very many copayments if any. sometimes you have to pay a copayment for medication but it is like one dollar or two dollars. he talks disparagingly about the clinical outcomes from medicaid programs. it turns out if you have medicaid, you get a pretty good coverage, extraordinary benefits and all of the studies show that it improves our health. we have a natural experiment in our country where we have 10 states that have not expanded medicaid and when you compare the health outcomes from those states that have expanded medicaid versus

and publblic health collide. this week on "firing line." - [speaker] mr. kennedy, congratulations on your nomination. - [margaret] the nomination of robert f. kennedy jr. to head the department of health and human services created a firestorm. - buckle up, because vaccines are going to become more expensive and less available. - he's re-litigating and churning settled science. - he has done more than just about anybody to undermine people's trust in vaccines. - news reports have claimed that i am anti-vaccine or anti-industry. i am neither. (protestor shouts) i am pro safety. - where's your heart? (gavel banging) - [margaret] vaccines are not our only public health challenge. bird flu, obesity, opioid addiction. these are just some of the crises facing america and the world. - this is a failure of meritocracy when people can get into positions of very senior leadership that really have the responsibility of our destiny in their job description. - dr. richard carmona, u.s. surgeon general under president george w. bush, is a veteran of the battle between politics and public health. do you think lives are on the line, dr. carmona? - absolutely, lives are on the line. - [margaret] with rfk jr. likely to be

department of health and human services. we are still waiting to get all of our members here, and while we wait for that to occur, we will proceed with statements. i will proceed first, then senator wyden, and then we will rotate from one side to the other until we are at a point where we will prepare for the vote. is that good with you? sen. wyden: yes, sir. chair crapo: mr. kennedy, if confirmed, will have the opportunity to deliver much-needed change to our nation's health care system. he has spent his career fighting to end america's chronic illness epidemic and has been a leading advocate for health care transparency both for patients and for taxpayers. mr. kennedy has also clearly responded to our questions during the rigorous due diligence process and his hearing also and in the course of answering over 900 questions for the record that were asked by members of this committee. in response to members of the committee, mr. kennedy has even amended his ethics agreement, going beyond what is required by the government offi

and drug administration. others fear an environmental risk. mr. kennedy's history of of environmental activism motivates their support. i pointed out that the environmental protection agency monitors this, not the department of health and human services, but they still feel he can make a difference. so as i looked how to resolve this i returned to where i began, would it be possible to have mr. kennedy collaborate in helping public health agencies reearn the trust of the american people? how, regarding vaccines, mr. kennedy has been insistent that he wants good science and ensure safety. but on this topic, the science is good, the science is credible. vaccines save lives, they are safe. they do not cause autism. there are multiple studies that show this. they are a crucial part of our nation's public health spobs. as someone who discussed immu a anizations can -- immu anyonizations, many need to be assured it is safe. robert f. kennedy has issues with reformering nih, it leads back to vaccines. mr. kennedy and the administration reached out seeking to reassure me regarding their commitment to protecting the public health benefit of vaccination. to this end, mr. kennedy and the administration committed that he and i would have an unpr

kennedy jr., who is the new secretary of the department of health and human services. despite decades of anti-science, anti-medicine activism, all of this comes as trump's long promised firings of federal government employees have begun at least dozens so far no longer have jobs. while some employees are being fired, at least 75,000 other employees have accepted trump's deferred resignation or buyout program, which a judge allowed to move forward today after it had previously been paused. other trump agenda items, though, still are caught up in court today. a judge extended the pause on trump's plans to dismantle the usaid agency. we have cnn team coverage of every one of these headlines. let's start with cnn's jeff zeleny at the white house. and, jeff, the president today had a whole lot to say about a whole lot of things. he was asked more questions about these proposed peace talks between russia and ukraine. tell us more about what he's saying today, jake. the reverberations certainly continue for. this reset. >> relationship, if. >> you will. >> between the u.s. >>

of the american accountability foundation, a conservative watchdog group. berkeley loveless is with us, he joins me now, berkeley, that conservative watchdog group we are talking about and the department of health and human servicesded to our request for comment but what more do we know, can you explain more about this website? >> right now it's unclear when this website first a quick appeared, it lists mainly black employees that work within the department of health and human services and after speaking with sources i will say that workers are terrified right now. it was a number of quote offenses that these workers made including working in dei initiatives, donating to democrats and using pronouns in their bios, it also list their personal information such as photos and their salaries. at one point the list had a headline that set -- said quote targets but the language was changed and we blurred out the images of those workers to protect their identities. a person we spoke with said this is clear racism and basically a scare tactic to try to intimidate these people from doing their jobs. right now we have reached out to the group that appears to be doing this. >> beyond this the trump administration has made a

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and controversial views on public health. in his new role, he will run the department of health and human services, overseeing agencies that regulateid — federal insurance programmes that cover about 140 million americans. earlier, the senate voted to confirm mr kennedy largely along party lines. only one republican chose to vote against the confirmation — senator mitch mcconell, a polio survivor whose long been an advocate for vaccines. he addressed those concerns about the stance on vaccines. if people actually hear what i feel about vaccines, which is common sense, vaccines should be tested and safe, everybody should have informed consent. now, during friday night, this band of cloud and patchy rain pushes northwards and eastwards. we may see some snow developing, especially over high ground in northern england and up into scotland. a real mix of temperatures — cold and frosty towards the north and the east, mild in the southwest. but of course, you can check the overnight temperatures for where you are by having a look at the bbc weather app. so into saturday, it looks like we'll see another pulse of cloud and rain pushing in f

of an attorney and has brought many lawsuits on vaccine safety and of the things. i think senator warnock said the president said he would go wild the department of health and human services. i hope he does the hope he finds a way to reduce the cost healthcare. i hope he goes wild and instead of the discussion we've had for the ten years in the senate making medicaid work making people healthier, i hope he figures out how because of this quote is not much of the way, i hope he goes wild on safety so we can improve safety supply and goes wild on the healthcare supply chain and tries to make sure drug prices go down instead of budgeting pharmaceutical companies get everybody in the room and make sure we do this right. bring vaccine to market and therapeutics the market. look at the full supply chain is no health professional, he's the first since have been alive is not been a healthcare professional in a scientific sense but he is in terms of carrying this forward and holding people accountable through the courts. i'm not going to go much longer but i have people from the agriculture industry expressed concerns that are not aware of any credible group who have said we shoul

and abuse. to discuss the impact, i am joined by two of the top watchdogs fired by the president. the former inspector general for the department of health and human servicesd the former inspector general for the department of defense. thank you both for being here with me today. you were both fired on a friday night. and the white house said that it was terminating you and other ig's due to changing priorities. did that language stick out to you? >> it did. it is a great question because, you know, administrations come and go, and they all have their own priorities and that's fine. elections have consequences. ig's are nonpartisan independent watchdogs. whatever the priority is of the administration may be, we do independent oversight to look for waste, fraud and abuse, and to ensure that the programs and operations of the departments we oversee are economical, that they are efficient, that they are effective. so that stuck out from the very beginning. >> your offices are two of the largest across the federal government. but when it comes to health and human services, what are some of the examples of abuse and fraud that you investigated over the last few

of power as the chair. >> of. >> the. >> health committee, that that will. >> give him a level of oversight as to how rfk jr. runs the department of health and human servicesing yes. but at the end of the day, ana, the biggest takeaway from this process. is that donald trump is going to get what donald trump wants from republican senators. and every time one of these controversial nominees has come forward, we see concerns. we see those concerns raised publicly. we see. >> these tough questions. >> in the confirmation hearings. but ultimately, the republicans come around and say, yes, i'm going to support your nominees. mr. president. >> we are seeing senator crapo there. he's the chairman of the senate finance committee speaking. and that was the committee that had to advance the nomination of rfk jr. michael, the washington post is reporting that leaders inside the department of health and human services are already planning meetings with rfk jr. telling the post it's being treated as a done deal. is that what you're hearing, too? >> like ryan said, it looks like. >> rfk jr. >> s nomination. >> is headed. >> for confirmation. >> as he. >> mentioned, a nu

and that should not stand. sen. wyden: fight fraud, not nursing home services. sen. hassan: and i also add, inspector general of the department of health and human services has a long record of going after fraud and wrongdoers and holding them accountable and getting that money back. the trump administration has fired almost all of the inspectors general, the very people who go after fraud, waste, and abuse in our government and have a track record of getting results for air speaking out of both sides of their mouth here --they are speaking out of both sides of their mouth here. sen. baldwin: all right, thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] >> vice president jd vance is scheduled to give remarks on thursday at the conservative political action conference, or cpac. watch live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including charter communic

we also are learning that multiple agencies within the department of health and human services, a number of their probationary employees or employees that have been with the federal government for a year or two, they've now received a letter that looks very similar across those agencies. i want to read to you part of that letter. it says, unfortunately, the agency finds that you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the agency's current needs and your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment at the agency. so what we're seeing here is the trump administration and of course, doj's that department of government agency that's being headed by elon musk. they're really trying their best to cut costs here. and in doing so they're trying to trim down the federal government. of course this is being led. this is being met by a number of criticisms. first is of course, the legal challenges that are playing out in court. but also democrats have been very vocal. so here's hakeem jeffries, who is, of course, the leader of the

temporary restraining doge accessing records of the three agencies, the department of labor, department of health and human servicesnancial protection bureau. judge bates acknowledged privacy concerns but doge likely qualifies as a federal agency and has the authority to access government records. the judge requested plaintiffs file a brief on a potential preliminary injunction by the 18th. elon musk is celebrated that temporary win posting lfg meaning let's go with extra enthusiasm. setback did comeon friday with a judge extending a temporary order that blocks doge from looking at the treasury department. the judge there is reviewing a revised proposal from 14 democratic states attorneys generals, on friday judge said the initial request was too broad noting you are essentially asking me to shut down the government. this hearing is happening right now and some sense we're getting inside the courtroom the judge is expressing skepticism towards the plaintiffs. this hearing is taking place today, a federal holiday when courts would usually be closed. >> i don't believe in coincidences. interesting timing. good to see

of an elder or dependent adult. and more protests across the country over cuts to government spending and the department of government efficiency, federal workers union leaders and democratic lawmakers rallied right outside the department of health and human services in washington, d.c. under elon musk, the department of government efficiency, or doge, has cut thousands of federal jobs through buyouts and layoffs, including scientists working on critical health care research. those protests have also stretched to san francisco, where tonight, federal workers were among those protesting doge related cuts. >> layoffs, cutbacks. they're the worst. >> time to put the people first. >> layoffs, cutbacks. they're the worst. >> a large crowd, including union members, gathered outside a tesla shop right there on van ness avenue. they say the federal layoffs are part of a deliberate strategy to dismantle public services and replace them with for profit corporate control. >> it's not a democrat issue. this is not a republican issue. this is a worker issue. >> you. if you work, if you're retired. >> this is your issue. you need to stand up and fight back like you never have before. >> tonight, the protesters say that these cuts will lead to benefits and servi

robert f. kennedy junior, a vaccine skit taked has been sworn in to lead the federal department of health and human services. the us senate confirmed his appointment with 52 votes to 48. kennedy is an environmental lawyer and the son of the late to send it to robert f. kennedy. nato secretary jo monkwood, has told defense ministers in brussels that ukraine will be involved in peace talks . it follows a phone call between the russian and us president. and at least $28.00 people had been injured off to cost, but into a group of trades union protested the german city of munich officials are treating instance as a suspect to the top. the site, the suspect is a 24 year old of gun asylum seeker, there's all the headlines and he is continues here on out just here. that's of the witness the much money other than of course in the of the something that we should okay. who am i may have of yeah, well the dispatcher, who understood it on up to london does hang out as little fun? no. i know how to order shipping to how much it was based on the fact of a dollar when there's a deed that's out and that's designed for for l

s nomination to lead the department of health and human services. senate intelligence committee advanced former congresswoman tulsi gabbard's nomination to serve as director of national intelligence. our congressional correspondent lisa desjardins is following the cabinet confirmation process and joins us now. lisa, let's start with hhs first, since it is one of the largest federal agencies. what is the committee's vote mean? lisa: unless something changes, rfk junior will become the next hhs secretary. there are enough votes on the floor for him. he is a 71-year-old, of course, who does not have a history or expertise in health care. he spent years researching and writing about health care. he does deserve credit for changing the conversation about processed foods, and that is what we heard during his senate confirmation hearing, but at the same time, there are open doubts about his views and passed statements about vaccines, studies have shown there is no link between autism and vaccines, and that raised real concerns about him. you can hear are ve

. >> john: we talk to the department of health and human services. aid in a statement, the world trade were not affected. patients are being seen by doctors and nurses at clinics. >> right, the clinics are operated, they are contractors of the federal health program. those are operating, but what's going to happen is in the weeks and months ahead, without the adequate program staff those members who are seeking treatment at those clinics, say mount sinai clinic here in new york, they are going to start to get delays because there is not the program staff on the back end to approve and authorize their medical certifications. >> john: last question. bipartisan support for this, were you surprised at this? >> yes, the world trade center health program's congressionally mandated. i think we thought given the sacred mission that we have to provide care and health care to our 9/11 heroes that the program would be insulated from that. i personally, as a 9/11 family member, my brother was killed on 9/11 and spent the last two decades plus working on a range o

senate finance committee for rfk, jr., the president's nominee to run the department of health and human servicesuntil the end. we didn't know how senator cassidy would vote and gave fox news a statement before walking in and he was a yes. so that was 14-13 in the finance committee. so rfk, jr. now advances to consideration on the senate floor and we'll see how that goes. but looks better for him and also for tulsi gabbard who will get a vote this afternoon. >> president trump: every single one of those countries is dying to make a deal. they're ripping us off really badly. and the united states is tired of just being ripped off. >> john: president trumps explaining why he is using tariffs as a deal making tool as canada and mexico quickly cave to border security demands. china allows a 10% tariff on all its imports to take effect. the president is expected to talk with xi jing ping today but that window may have passed today. do you think they can strike a similar deal to the one trump with mexico and canada? >> i would have to believe he can do that. we have about a $250 billion trade deficit t

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and putting anti-semitist faculty on their campus". department of education working with the department of justice and department of health and human servicesvestigations and to combat anti-semitism on these campuses. ash, there's a new sheriff or new administration in town, and we heard this on the campaign trail and know from what we're seeing there's a low toll lance per an -- low tolerance and seeing repercussions with lawsuits like this. ashley: quite right. madison, thank you very much. coming up, thousands of demonstrators protesting trump's immigration policies marching through downtown los angeles for the second day and comes as efforts to secure the southern border are ramping up. in a new agreement, texas national guardsman can now make immigration arrests. we'll have more on that, next. at ameriprise financial, we know our clients are so much more than clients. they're conquerors and champions, parents and caretakers, believers and breadwinners. the goals that matter most to you matter most to us. helping you achieve them is what we do best. with personal financial advice from an advisor you can trust, and goal-based investing i

>> in broad strokes, can you paint the picture of what we expect public health to look like with rfk jr leading the department of health and human services>> i think he has a very big learning curve. this is one of our biggest concerns when he was nominated and as he went through the nomination process. there's going to be a focus on chronic disease, which we wholeheartedly support. our concern comes to some of the other issues when we're talking about vaccines, when we're talking about understanding all of the implications of the of the multi-billion dollar agency that he's overseeing, which takes care of health, the health care of more than half of the country. there are so many questions, and we really hope that he follows the science driven approach to address those questions. >> in regards to that learning curve, i think there was even some mixing up of medicare and medicaid during the confirmation hearings. rfk jr has consistently said in those heated hearings that he would follow the science when it comes to vaccines, as he continues to cite that debunked study. how could kennedy's repeated vaccine skepticism lead to really an ero

and, of course, on pluto tv. >>> robert f. kennedy jr. has been sworn in to led the department of health and human services. the senate confirmed his nomination earlier today 52-48, largely along party lines. former senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was the only republican to vote against president trump's pick over his antivaccine stance. at the white house today he defended his position. >> when people actually hear what i think about vaccines, which is common sense, which is vaccines should be tested, should be safe, everybody should have informed consent, people are reacting because they hear things about me that aren't true. >> president trump stood by his own pick, saying he will let kennedy "go wild on food, health, and medicine." kennedy will also be in charge of the agencies trying to contain the growing bird flu outbreak. today the cdc released a study finding bird flu may be spreading more widely than testing is currently capturing. it found some veterinarians were exposed to bird flu even though they did not treat animals known to be affected. the study was one of two on the bird flu delaye

of making our government stronger and smaller. >> reporter: thousands of workers fired at the department of health and human services, where today, the new secretary, robert f. kennedy jr., addressed those who remain. his team telling them, selfies are welcome. kennedy declaring hhs will now study possible causes of chronic diseases. >> some of the possible factors we will investigate were formerly taboo or insufficiently scrutinized. a childhood vaccine schedule. electromagnetic radiation. glief glyphosate, ultra processed foods. artificial food -- ssris and other psychiatric drugs. pfas. microplastics. nothing is going to be off-limits. >> reporter: but tonight, the head of the fda's food division under kennedy is stepping down. jim jones saying the firings at the agency demonstrate the trump administration's disdain for the very people necessary to implement the department's agenda of improving the health of americans. and he's not the only top level official to leave in protest. the head of the social security administration resigning after elon musk's staff demanded access to an internal data system that includes sensitive

and the effectiveness of immunization. put simply, vaccines save lives. this is the context that informed me when considering rfk as the nominee to be secretary of the department of health and human servicesit was a decision i studied exhaustively. i took very seriously. and as i said i would, i spoke with mr. kennedy not once, but multiple times over the weekend, including this morning. we had in-depth conversations about the medical literature, about the science behind the safety of vaccines. he referred me to studies and to people. i reviewed them and spoke to those whom he mentioned i should speak to. now, the most notable opponents of mr. kennedy were pediatricians on the front lines. of our children's health, who regularly have to combat misinformation, combating vaccine skepticism with correct information, correct information that comes from their education, their training and experience as physicians. they are aware of the falling vaccine rates and the inevitability of increasing hospitalizations and deaths of children from vaccine preventable diseases. they are aware that children are now contracting diseases that they would not have contracted if the child was vaccinated. now, i

s nomination to lead the department of health and human services. another critical vote is just minutes away. tulsi gabbard, trump's pick for director of national intelligence, is also trying to clear a senate committee hurdle. cnn's lauren fox is standing by for us on capitol hill. and lauren, just last week, republican senator bill cassidy, a physician, said that he was struggling with kennedy's nomination over his stance on vaccines. obviously, something changed his mind. >> yeah. i mean, he had a lot of conversations, and he made clear in his statement earlier today, as well as a long speech on the floor of the united states senate, just how he got to. yes, he really credits vice president j.d. vance with helping him get to. yes. he also says he was able to get several promises from the administration. serious commitments. he said, about what exactly was going to transpire at hhs in the months ahead, including getting quarterly hearings if he wanted them from rfk jr.. as the chairman of the health committee. he also said that there were assurance

of whether that will be a binding promise. >> i will be very interested to ask doctor cassidy whether the consultations this weekend prior to the mass firings and layoffs that we saw throughout the department of health and human servicesthat will have a devastating impact on the research enterprise as well as disease prevention and in many aspects of the operation of the department of health and human services. i will be very interested to see whether the consultation occurred and if it didn't. how we are going to assure oversight. already in this administration in the early days one of the things we are seeing is the congressional prerogative authorities are being trampled upon and i believe it's all of our responsibility to make sure that the body and the congress that makes the laws and sets appropriation levels and taxes the budget and if the administration that components those things so far their conduct of the administration has not reflected that check and balance. >>. >> how can congress affect the power and provide a check, as you would like to see. >> it would only take a handful of my republican colleagues to stand up and do that. when we have nominees in front of us who have indicated a willingness to do

. >> president trump's controversial pick to lead the department of health and human services has been confirmed after overcoming initial republican skepticism. ryan nobles is on capitol hill. this happened on a largely party line vote. >> reporter: that is right, lester. the lone gop vote against robert f. kennedy jr. was the former gop leader, mitch mcconnell. kennedy was quickly sworn in. he will preside over a $1.7 trillion budget that oversees important departments like the centers for disease control and the food and drug administration. kennedy says he will focus on c ending the chronic disease epidemic. he faced fierce push back over his criticism of vaccines. kash patel, trump's pick to run the fbi is expected to get a confirmation vote next week and not one republican has come out against him. >> president trump once again wading into the global trade war today.without setting off alarm bells, the ammunition, tariffs. they are not without setting off alarm bells, including in his own party. >> reporter: tonight president trump ordering his administration to investigate imposi

department of health and human services that oversees head start. we asked about the funding delays, including the one day issue experienced here. i have not heard back yet. so even though we are hearing reports of impacts to head start programs in other parts of the country, again, we don't seem to be seeing any of that in the bay area at this point. candice nguyen, nbc bay area we investigate candice. thank you. well, our new team is now officially moving into their new home. today, the golden state valkyries unveiled their new performance center in the former warriors training facility, which is in downtown oakland. yeah, we're getting a sneak peek of that remodel facility. nbc bay area's velena jones joins us now from inside the valkyries new home. the new valkyries performance center will be open all year round, not only for the players, but to also host community events. it's part of a continuation of a legacy of basketball here in the town. the warriors organization says it's critical they continue to invest in. trading out blue and gold for p

in the meantime, robert f kennedy junior has been sworn in to lead the federal department of health and human services out of the us senate confirmed his appointment with 52 to 48 votes, r f k junior. as he's commonly known as an environmental lawyer and a vaccine skeptic, as our plans, a radical transparency and returning gold standard science. and i have to ask the amc these agent and ending the corruption. i mean, the corporate capture of those agencies getting rid of the people on those panels that have conflicts of interest. we can do on the doors and unimportant saw enterprises and the kind of product that is coming out of those agencies today. president trump has promised to be the president for all americans. and he has said to me that he understands that there is no such thing as republic control or democratic children. all of our children need to be protected and whether you're a boost a to rest 8. i'm going to do everything i can to work with you of your democratic republic and restore child's health in this country. ok, let's cross the capitol hill. it's. i'm going to speak to john 100, so

if kennedy junior vaccine skeptic has been sworn in to leads the federal department of health and human services, the us senate confirmed his appointments with 52 to 48 thoughts. kennedy is an environmental lawyer and the son of the lights in as well. but if kennedy, the us president says american and russian officials are expected to meet him, munich on friday, on the sidelines of a security summit. the sit down will come a day off to ignite their defense ministers meeting in brussels. we're your officials, expressed fee is that the us could leave you of sidelines and any piece towards how small bar reports from brussels. a good morning. this was know the outcome. europe and canada, we're hoping for. they had wanted to convince the trump administration to supply bull cash and weapons. so that when keith went to piece talks with bosco, ukraine would have the advantage. but us defense secretary b techs, it came to an a to with a clear message. the us once a d now, but won't commit troops to ukraine and does a want a confrontation with russia. i had the chance to brief allies on president trump's

there robert f. kennedy junior faxing skeptic has been sworn in to lead the federal department of health and human services at the us center, confirmed his appointment in 52 to 48 votes. just one republican mitch mcconnell broke party lines to vote against kennedy kennedy's and environmental lawyer and the son of the late senator robert f. kennedy. john hadn't john henry is joining us not from a capital health. so this is a controversial think, but he has made it through the that's right. he made it through on a strict party line vote. as you mentioned there, uh and mutual caught on was the loan vote against him as you said. but i'm a carpet at a statement explaining why he did that. he said that he did it because he was a polio survivor as a child. and he said, a record of trafficking and dangerous conspiracy theories and a wrote in trust in public health institutions does not entitle district kennedy to lead these important efforts. for him, it was actually a person over that is the 3rd time recently that mcconnell has voted against a trump now many and as you mentioned, it kept, he's not a doctor who wa

april going begins, who works for the department of health and human services, wrestled with that decision. >> i think the last three weeks have been a little bit like, some psychological warfare, just getting tossed back and forth between, do i need to worry about moving, am i going to lose my house, do i need to worry about my job? and what can >> reporter: a federal judge has put it on hold yet again. but april says her decision is made. >> i'm not resigning. >> reporter: why? >> first of all, you're not going to -- you're not going to bully me out of a job. >> reporter: the judge's decision to put the buyout offer on hold, just one in a series of legal setbacks for the new administration. and on x, musk lashing out at the judges. calling a new york judge who blocked his efforts to access treasury data a corrupt judge protecting corruption, adding, he needs to be impeached now. vice president jd vance taking it even further, posting, "if a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate