vaccine on trial mary holland director of the graduate laurean program at the n.y.u. school of law thank you so much for joining us today mary thank you for having me know mary kind of let's get this out the way first you yourself have spoken about the attacks against those who question vaccine safety i want to ask you what is it a bio that. seems safety makes discussing at such a contentious you know insane topic that everyone kind of loses their mind over and . i don't know what makes this so impossible except that you know the consensus is so strong within government and the pharmaceutical industry and the medical community and parents who had to vaccinate their children according to mandate so and then there's other factors you know there's liability protection for the pharmaceutical industry it's a multibillion dollar industry that's grown wildly over the last forty years so there are a lot of there are a lot of factors that make this a very difficult subject for many different constituencies to address. one of the things that stuck out to me about your book was

kane, king, clover chart, markey, mendez, merkley, mary, nelson, peters, reeve, sanders, shots, schumer, shaheen, smith, tester, you‘d all, van hollandconfirmation vote has taken place, we have heard a list of those in the affirmative, those who are voting forjudge kavanaugh to be the next us supreme court judge, kavanaugh to be the next us supreme courtjudge, and kavanaugh to be the next us supreme court judge, and then kavanaugh to be the next us supreme courtjudge, and then we have heard a list in the negative, we are hearing on reuters that the majority have voted in the support of the supreme court nominee, but we will get confirmation of that as soon as we can. barbara, can you explain the process here? what have we been hearing and what might happen next? the vote has finished, it is 50—48. so, judge kavanaugh has been confirmed. the reason it is 48 is because the senator from montana was not able to be present as he had to attend his daughter‘s wedding. the one republican senator who voted no voted present for him. this evened the balance, which is why you have 50-48. this the balance, which is why you have 50—48. this is a m