this morning we are going to vote on robert kennedy's nomination to serve as our nation's chief health care officer. before we get to mr. kennedy and why i believe he is single orly on -- singularly unfit to serve as hhs secretary, i would like to say this -- the last several days we have witnessed an authoritarian takeover of our federal government by elon musk and donald trump. they have set their sights on a full purge of anyone in government that doesn't bend any and-- bend the knee and follow their orders. they have taken over the treasury department's payment system, and colleagues, that has a direct effect on major programs within our committee's jurisdiction that include social security, medicare, and medicaid. for example, this committee voted for a major reform of pharmacy benefit manager legislation. we passed it 26-0, but trump and musk killed it. think what they could do with abuse of the payment system. now, in my view, much of this is of dubious legality and constitutional authority, and certainly flies in the face of congressional responsibilities. i will wrap up on thi

as a carpenter, i've seen every window problem out there. >> and robert f. kennedy. >> welcome back. you are now watching the senate finance committee meeting, where they will be voting to advance robert f kennedy, jr.. s nomination to be hhs secretary. >> for that to occur, we will proceed with statements. and 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 are prepared for the vote. does that fit with you, senator? yes, sir. 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 in 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. ken

we're going to vote on. >> robert kennedy's. >> nomination to. e as our. >> nation's chief. >> health care officer. before we. >> get to. >> mr. kennedy. and why i believe he is singularly unfit to serve as hhs secretary. i'd like to say this. the last several days, we've witnessed an authoritarian. takeover of our federal government by elon musk and donald trump. they have set their. >> sights on. >> a full purge of anyone in government that doesn't bend the knee and follow their orders. they've taken over the treasury department's payment system and colleagues. that has a direct effect on major programs within our community. committee's jurisdiction. that includes social security, medicare and medicaid. for example, this committee voted for a major reform of pharmacy benefit manager legislation. we passed it 26 to nothing, but trump and musk killed it. think what they could do with abuse of the payment system. now, in my view, much of this is of dubious, dubious legality and constitutional authority and certainly flies in the face of congression

robert kennedy to allowed on health. he things i could think of, grow cloud is not on the list. mr. kennedy is unqualified for the job he seeks. in my live in britain questions, he failed to commit to protecting access to affordable healthcare and failed to commit to protecting people protecting us. the problem the cdc has civil servants and workers protect us from dangers we don't see and you don't get credit. i simply do not trust him to oversee the cdc. he's unqualified and i daresay, everybody knows it. we need a serious person at dhhs, an agency responsible for about half administer kennedy appears more obsessed at chasing is busy. the chasing solutions to lower healthcare costs in georgia and make sure we are protected. last thing we need is dabbling in conspiracy theories at hhs. i cannot vote for nominee will not vote healthcare costs for georgians but his own interests above the health and well-being of others in the health and well-being of our families and people who count on us to think about these rooms of po

this morning we're going to vote on robert kennedy's nomination to serve as our nation's chief healthcare officer. before we get to mr. kennedy, and why i believe he is singularly unfit to serve as hhs secretary, i would like to say this. the last several days we witnessed an authoritarian takeover of our federal government by elon musk and donald trump. they have set their sights on a full purge of anyone in government that doesn't bend the knee and follow their orders. they've taken over the treasury department's payment system and colleagues that has a direct affect on major programs within our committee's jurisdiction that includes social security, medicare, and medicaid. for example, this committee voted for a major reform of pharmacy benefit manager legislation. we passed it 26-0 but trump and musk killed it. think what they could do with abuse of the payment system. now in my view much of this is dubious legality and constitutional authority and flies in the face of congressional responsibilities. i will wrap up on this point by saying i hope our colleagues on the other side of the

will tulsi gabbard and robert f. kennedy jr. sail through as well?rasso is here on the president's cabinet and his agenda, next. ♪ ♪ maria: welcome back. the senate returns to capitol hill tomorrow to continue confirmation hearings for president trump's cabinet nominees including voting for cloture for pam bondi as u.s. attorney general expected sometime in the afternoon, then next friday republican senators are headed to the mar-a-lago, invited by president trump to hash out next steps on executing his bold agenda. joining me now is senate majority if whip, wyoming senator john barrasso. senator, thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you, maria. maria: let's get right to it. you are on the senate finance committee that will vote on robert f. kennedy jr. on tuesday. do you believe kennedy has the votes to get confirmed as hhs secretary? >> we're working very hard to make sure that that happens on tuesday but first, maria, we are just two weeks into the trump administration, and washington does not know what hit it. the president has mo

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also a short time ago robert f. kennedy, jr. moved one step closer to becoming health and human services secretary. the senate finance committee last hour voted along party lines to advance his nomination out of committee and onto the full senate for a vote. and we expect the senate intelligence committee to vote today on tulsi gabbard's nomination for director of one potential hold-out there moderate republican senator susan collins. now she is backing tulsi gabbard. >> i will vote for her. i believe she is committed to strengthening our national security. and i questioned to her extensively about her views on edward snowden and i am now satisfied that she will not seek in any way to have him pardoned. >> harris: you will remember the edward snowden case behind one of the biggest classified document leaks in u.s. history. now senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill with more. a lot of staccato quick movement now. >> absolutely. also doug collins is up for v.a. they'll vote on him today. the finance co

kennedy jr just never made that concession. so there's a lot of politics at play here, chris. robert. bill cassidy is up for reelection in 2026. had he voted no and effectively killed the kennedy nomination, that would have probably bought a tremendous amount of backlash from the maga world and likely led to a primary challenge, he said, that did not involve his decision making process here. he said he felt like he got the assurances he needed, and that's why he voted yes. chris. >> so, congressman, senator cassidy referenced intense conversations with the white house and specifically j.d. vance in coming to his decision. what does it say about the role the trump administration has played in ensuring that republican senators line up behind their nominees? >> without a. >> doubt. >> chris, and you heard. ryan allude to it. republicans worry these days. >> more than anything. >> else about their primaries, and. they know. >> that getting. >> sideways with president trump increases primary risk significantly. we've seen a lot of republicans lose in primaries. because of president trump's

they're making robert kennedy, secretary of health and human services. in my view, colleagues would be a grave threat to the health of the american people. and i urge my colleagues this morning to vote now that spring in rosalind jordan in washington, dc for me on this. so r s k ross has cleared a crucial senate power vote didn't come as a surprise 1st or it did not come as a surprise, even though there was some speculation that at least one republican senator rob bill cassidy of louisiana. who happens to be a medical doctor might have voted against his nomination because of kennedy's longstanding though skepticism about the effectiveness of vaccines and whether they caused autism. multiple health authorities say that vaccines do not cause autism yet. kennedy has a perpetuated this myth. this lie as, as it were, for many years now and has a rather all a popular uh, fan base here in the united states because of his, uh, so called vaccine skepticism. now it is a thought that cassidy, the louisiana center termite and voted to us and his nomination to the fu

they told us to get off the lawn and you know what robert f kennedy junior did?s the first thing i'm going to address when i become secretary of human health services. that is what we need, someone, a politician and elected officials to go for the american people to be the voice and we were there cheering and supporting him because he's taking our issues to the highest level the government and talking about it in a way that we are actually looking at real reform. you saw the red green die band, because the leaders finally get up and put special interests aside and get real reform done in our food system. >> rfk so what you guys were doing and he got on board and then trump saw what rfk was doing and said i want you aboard and if you come aboard, i'm not going to forget you after i'm elected and so far they are fulfilling their dream and goal and it's up to get confirmation across the goal line. you believe he will get confirmed? just your gut and from what people have told you? >> it will be a fundamental life-changing decision for every senator votes no on that

kennedy to achieve president trump's mission of improving the help of all americans. and with that, i yield. >> has finally. >> decided after he said. >> much deliberation. >> to support robert f. kennedy jr. s nomination to run hhs. >> to the senate. for final approval. that approval, despite. >> fierce objections from senate. >> democrats on the. >> finance committee, the. >> republican led committee. >> advanced kennedy's nomination. >> to the floor today on. >> a party. >> line vote. >> democrats on the committee all voting against him, citing their concerns. about rfk. >> jr's vaccine. >> skepticism, skepticism, his activism against. >> it, his complaints, continuing complaints about autism. >> completely disavowed despite all of the scientific. >> evidence, and also. >> that he has no management. >> experience to run the second biggest agency in government. >> second only to the pentagon. republican louisiana. >> senator cassidy, a medical doctor, as you say, at first, said. >> he was struggling with the vote. >> he fell into. line and. >> voted yes. meeting with kennedy. several times, he said. multiple times. >> including again this morning. >> and now to another. >>

for robert kennedy jr.et the same bar that pete hegseth did. >> and mark, what do you make of tulsi ard, but then this morning, senator schmitt saying that, i'm not going to touch that, that's not a real question. yet it was a question that republicans were asking for her. >> a lot of people don't remember who edward snowden is or julian aassange, but a lot of trump supporters believe that he hurt him greatly with the fake russia investigation. but the position, where someone sold american secrets to put americans' in uniform ves in danger is not a traitor goes r beyond the pale when you can't say they were actually traitors. >> national security is dependent on the ability to collect intelligence and safeguard intelligence. and on both of those counts, tulsi's hearing showed that she didn't wholeheartedly believe in either the key ability to collect the intelligence or the need to safeguard it. and i think that should put some real questions in the senators' minds. >> we'll have to see how it all plays out

kids may die but robert kennedy can keep cashing in. >> mr. kennedy: i support vaccines and i support the childhood schedule. the only thing i want is good science and that's it. >> >> senator warren: how about say you won't make money of what you do as secretary of hhs. >> mr. chairman: mr. kennedy has gone through the same office of government ethics process as every single other nominee in the finance committee this year and previous administration. in addition to listing his assets including items that you identified and he signed an ethics letter that's reviewed by the government of ethics. we have a letter from the office of government ethics that he has complied completely with all applicable laws and regulations, governing conflicts of interests. >> senator warren: mr. chairman, have we had a single nominee come through who makes $2.5 million of suing one of the entities that it would be regulating and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future, have we had that before? >> mr. chairman: i have not reviewed that. i know

of confirmation hearings. >> for. >> robert f. kennedy jr. was something that he didn't or wouldn't say, which was that he accepted established science, showing no link between vaccines and autism. this was something that multiple senators pressed. robert f. kennedy jr. on, most notably, senator bill cassidy, who is a physician and is the chair of the senate health committee, which hosted the second day's confirmation hearing. here's an example of one exchange between those two on this topic. >> if you. >> are approved. >> to this decision, to this position, will you say unequivocally, will you will you reassure mothers unequivocally and without qualification, that the measles and hepatitis b vaccines do not cause autism? >> senator. >> i am not going into the agency with any. >> kind of a yes or no question because. so if you're because the data is there and that's kind of a yes or no. and i don't mean to cut you off, but that really is a yes or no. >> if the data is there, i will absolutely do that. >> now there is the data. just because i u

the process moves along on robert kennedy jr. and tulsi democrats. i think last week had hoped that maybe there was a way they could derail these nominations. how does it feel to you this morning? >> yeah. >> it doesn't feel like that's going to happen. i mean, i think we have senator cassidy who could stop rfk coming out of committee, but i think that these will probably make it out of committee. committee, which is really disappointing. i think that both of these nominees are really problematic for very different reasons. they're both woefully unqualified for their jobs, but i think that they will probably get out of committee and probably pass unless we see something else come to light in the public eye. but i just don't know that that's going to happen. >> confirmation is assured at this point. alyssa. >> i think it's very likely all eyes on todd young on the tulsi gabbard confirmation. of course, bill cassidy, a doctor himself with regard to rfk jr.. but there's been tremendous pressure from trumpworld on these republicans to support his nominee

kennedy, robert kennedy jr. has been an advocate for consumers since 1985. after graduating from harvard university, mr. kennedy studied the london school of economics and received his law degree fro the university of virginia law school and a master's degree in environmental law from pace uni he has founded two advocacy groups and has spent the last 4 years working to restore and protect children's health. he was a former independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election and president trump nominated him this year to be in november of 2024 to be the hhs secretary. in announcing his nomination, president trump stated mr. kennedy will restore these agencies to the traditions of gold standard scientific research and beacons of transparency and end the chroni disease epidemic and make america great and healthy again before you give your opening statement mr. kennedy, i have four obligatory question that we -- questions that we ask all nominees before this committee. first, is there anything that you are aware of in your background that might present a conf

kennedy was talking to the country of poland, studies from poland, in fact, he seems to have been referring to one single study by a doctor, poland gregory poland, md. in fact, robertdy jr made a whole anti-vaccine film targeting black people, using that one study from doctor poland. but poor doctor poland for years has been telling anybody who will listen that rfk jr is completely, totally wrong about his work. doctor poland says rfk is wildly misrepresenting his research. doctor poland says, quote, we do not have a study that shows african americans need half the vaccine dose. we do not have a study that shows african american children are being overdosed. and please, for the love of god, stop citing my work in your weird anti-vaccine race science theories. get my name out of your mouth, senator. also, brooks told robert f kennedy jr today that his assertions are dangerous, that she'll be voting against his nomination. but today's third hearing was for the trump cabinet nominee, who's generally seen as having the greatest danger of not being confirmed. the third one was the hearing for former democratic congresswoman tulsi gabbard. he's trump's nominee to be dire

at ro covid day. >> before the break, i told you about robert f kennedy jr.s outbreak. joining me now is anna merlan, senior reporter at mother jones and author of the book republic of lies american conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to power, which anna is a suitable book title for. what's going on? the idea that robert f kennedy jr is sitting before the united states senate millimeters away from being recommended to become the health and human services secretary, is a little hard to imagine, given his own words that have been stated to him this week. >> yeah. it's surprising. >> let's talk about this this situation. i don't know if a lot of people knew about the samoa story, and it may not feel important to a whole lot of people, but it is. it's instructive. right. you had you had the senator cassidy, who's an actual doctor, saying, i know the data. the data exists, the real data about vaccinations and mmr exist. we had senator maggie hassan saying, we want to know about autism. we want to know about what causes autism. and people like rfk who p

host: if not robert kennedy, then for this job is there a high-profile republican that you would like the president to nominate instead? who could do the job? guest: anybody that i say, they will not get the job. bobby gentle, bob redfield who used to run the cdc. those are highly qualified republicans who know health policy. those are people who have good clinical skills or good health policy skills. this is not against people on a partisan basis. we were very supportive of alex azar when he was the secretary of health and human services. this is about getting somebody who can protect the health of the american people. host: referring to the first trump administration alex azar who served as health and human services secretary. when it comes to public health policy, what are you watching during these first few days of the trump administration? guest: the challenge and the tragedy is absolute chaos. it took them a while to name acting directors but some of the most damaging things is they have stopped communication of people in the agency, even routine communications. sharing data. we

now, we know that both robert f. kennedy jr., who is donald trump's nominee to lead the department of health and human services, as well as tulsi gabbard, his pick to be his director of national intelligence. both of them faced very sharp questioning from democrats and republicans alike on capitol hill this week. but according to my conversations with sources familiar with how the president's team is looking at this, they are most concerned. now, i'm told about gabbard confirmation chances, and that comes as she was pressed very hard again by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about whether or not she believed that the acts of edward snowden were traitors to the united states. now, edward snowden is a former national security agency contractor who, back in 2013, had revealed the existence of a bulk collection of american phone records by the nsa before fleeing to russia. now we know that gabbard has said previously that she believed snowden should not face any sort of prosecution back in the united states, but she wasn't v

robert kennedy to "go wild on health". go wild.t i can think of i'd like to see a secretary of health and human services do, go wild is not on the list. reporter: also, the senate intelligence committee votes on tulsi gabbard to be director of national intelligence and todd young will support gabbard and senate votes to confirm pam bondi as attorney general later today. ashley. ashley: see how the math works. chad pergram, thank you so much. appreciate that. bring in caroline cavalerro and caroline, begin right there. what do you like about rfk jr.? >> yeah, thanks for having me, ashley. pretty simple. our children are very sick. our children are very sick and sicker than they've been before. parents in this millennial and now gen z generation coming up are demanding radical transparency. it's very clear to parents with sick children that if we could vaccinate and drug our way out of this problem, we would be, and our children would be healthier. but the reality is that this system has failed results, and it's very clear, it's plai

talk to john barrasso about if he has confidence that in fact he's got the votes to confirm robert f. kennedyo got newly confirmed epa minister lee zeldin and we have breaking news, lee zeldin will travel with the vice president jd vance, tomorrow, to ohio, palestine. it's going to mark the year since that train derailment putting all of those horrible chemicals in the water and the air and we'll talk with tom homan as you know, the deportation plans underway right now in america and we want to find out where we are in terms of that swath that you discussed earlier in venezuela, that rick grinell was able to bring back hostages to america. we've got a big show. a lot of breaking news coming up. jd vance really made a lot of common sense comments about the president's agenda. so i want to really get into what he has to say about executing that agenda. charlie: well, it's a new era, a new era of transparency and we thank you for bringing it to us and we'll be watching, maria bartiromo. maria: thank you. see you in 10 minutes. charlie: communities across the u.s. rallying around prayer after two

tuesday, members of the nate finance committee vote on whether to recommend the nomination of robert f kennedy junior as health and human services secretary. if so, his nomination will go to e senate floor for a vote. we will cover this live. >> alive form involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics, and public policy. from washington to across the country. tuesday morning, or the executive director of the center for immigration studies will talk about the recent deportation actions and broader immigration policy. a bloomberg news reporter will talk about elon musk's role in the government. and a texas congresswoman will talk about her legislative priorities and the democrats approach to the trump administration and the republican congress. join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning.

robert f kennedy's nomination. right?n signals that he votes no on the floor to give his fellow republicans the opportunity to vote yes. but there's. >> no doubt at. >> 10:00, cassidy is the man. >> to watch. and then at 2:00. >> in the senate intelligence committee, we'll. >> be watching todd. >> young of indiana very closely. >> there were. >> a. long list of republican senators that had real concerns about the answers that tulsi gabbard had on a wide range of questions in that. >> intel committee hearing. >> at least a public portion of it that the public was able to see from her position. unwilling to call edward snowden a traitor from her answers to questions about the foreign surveillance program known as section 702 two, the questions about that. mysterious meeting that she had with bashar al assad. >> she didn't. >> really quell a lot. >> of the concerns that the. republicans on this panel had. >> yet many of them are starting to fall in line. >> you saw susan. >> collins. >> yesterday say that she planned to vote

so it's just getting started but you know we've got the treasury nominee, we've got robert kennedy. we're going to take this seriously. much more to come. and has so many key nominees. you're going to be in hearings for while be sent to the treasury know nominee. i mean, this isn't going to be rocket science. i want to know what he's going to do that. bill bradley, one of my long time friends who was on the finance, had a better jump shot than me. the nba all-star. he and i always talk about a tax code that gives everybody in america the chance to get ahead. so far, what we've seen is there going to be a lots of breaks for people at the top. the cabinet is made up of, you know, lots of billionaires. and it looks like they're going to do pretty -- well. they're doing okay when. you talk about hotspur who in the senate right now, do you think is displaying hotspur? well i don't want to single anybody out get a man in trouble but. i mean my friend lisa murkowski was chair of the energy committee with certainly, you know, qualified. i mean, she's, you know, up up against it and she's te

robert f. kennedy jr. just cleared a major hurdle in his path to become health and human services secretary. the senate finance committee advancing his nomination along party lines. and it all came down to gop senator bill cassidy, who ultimately voted yes. i want to go straight to cnn's manu raju on capitol hill. manu, what more are we learning about cassidy's decision to vote yes? >> well, this was a surprise. well, for people on both sides, they really did not know how he would ultimately come down because he had been struggling with this nomination. he said that publicly last week. he had not made a decision on that as of last night. this morning, he indicated in a post on x that he had had a number of conversations all up until this critical vote, and he posted on social media saying that he had intense conversations with bobby kennedy over the weekend, as well as with the white house. he said he'd received some, quote, serious commitments from the administration. he also indicated that he spoke to th

uh, yes, robert f. kennedy. under joe biden, his agencies were ripe with bias.it's time to clean out the rotten smerconish at robert kennedy jr.. under joe biden his age. okay, so this gets to the subject of the purge that i was just discussing with byron donalds. i'm really troubled by it because according to the accounts and cnn was leading with this when i looked earlier today, there's a purge in progress, and the purge is reaching potentially, potentially any fbi agent investigator who played any investigatory role relative to january 6th. that's a horrible outcome, right? that's a horrible outcome because just envision someone who's in the dc or the philly field office, wherever it might be. baltimore. and they're given an assignment to investigate someone who participated in breaching the capitol on that day. and because they carried out that order, which is part of their job, they're now going to be purged from government. and who do you think within the government will ever investigate this administration, if that's the takeaway? were there excesses in p

has advanced robert f. kennedy jr. >> s bid to. >> become the next. secretary of the department of health. >> and. >> human services. >> it comes. >> after republican senator. >> bill. >> cassidy. >> a. >> doctor, signaled he. >> had reservations over kennedy's qualifications, citing his past as a vaccine skeptic. >> but in. >> the. >> end. >> cassidy voted yes after citing the opportunity to work together on other issues. >> kennedy's nomination will now face a full senate vote. joining us now. co-founder of punchbowl news. jake sherman, also an msnbc contributor. >> so, jake. >> good morning. this was well, people were wondering how it was going to turn out. it could have turned out the other way. all on really one vote. >> that's right. i mean. >> listen. >> we have to remember, jose, that when it comes to a president's cabinet. nine and a half times out of ten, the president's party is going to support that nominee. i don't say this as a about trump or about any other. this is a totality that presidents parties tend to support their cabinet nomine

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maria: i think most people want to see a change to our health and i do believe robert f kennedy junior do you think about the committee hearings because what i'm hearing about tosi gabbard they are not there yet they don't have the votes for tulsi gabbard. it looks like kennedy and casper tell get through i'm not sure about tosi gabbard what do you think. >> i think she has more conversations to have into clarify a couple of things. she's very smart i've known her for years and i like her a lot but she wasn't quite as aggressively clear as she could've been in the last hearing. on the other hand robert f kennedy junior has already done the country an enormous service by emphasizing the health aspect rather than the sickness aspect. he wants americans to be healthier and that's the least expensive kind of healthcare, if we keep you healthy you don't need all the expensive procedures. maria: great point. john barrasso told me will probably have five confirmed cabinet members this week including pam bondi, howard lutnick and others, will see about that, always a pleasure good to see you.

this is something -- this is something that concerned me with robert f. kennedy to be the secretary of health and human services. this is something 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, i reviewed and spoke to those who he said i should speak to. the most notable of opponents of mr. kennedy were peed trigsz 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 indication -- education, their training and experience as pediatricians, they are aware of the falling vaccine rates and the hospitalizations and deaths from children from vaccine-preventible diseases. children are contracting diseases that they would not have contracted if the child was vaccinated. others are looking at the need to address chemicals in our food and tha

robert kennedy jr.d hhs and over vaccines and trial lawyers pharmaceutical industry, the origin of life rated kennedy was was a harsh critic of donald trump calling him a terrible president and a threat to democracy calling but kennedy had a change of heart or also early was a job and i don't think there's ever been a doctor running our legal system, but there may soon be a trial lawyer new york healthcare system. he's nominees they faced committee votes, if the committee approves. the full senate votes. >> one person paying close attention is the chair of the house judiciary committee change order for the great state of ohio and welcome and is to see you as always. >> event good to be with you trey gowdy. trey: i thought kash patel did it really good job and how he would change bureau what did you think. >> i thought that he was confident and i thought that it was composed and he did determine his job taking the questions from both sides and you know i know that kash patel, is committed to protecting o

committees voted along party lines to narrowly advance the nominations of tulsi gabbard and robert f. kennedybbard is vying to become the director of national intelligence. kennedy is the pic to feed the department of health and human services. this means that all 100 senators will soon hold final votes. they can only afford to lose support from three republicans if every democrat and every independent senator votes against them. joining us now, capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles, tracking this for us. ryan, let's begin with rfk, kennedy. despite skepticism from republicans, they voted for him. what was their reasoning and doesn't appear he will pass the senate vote? truck i will pass your -- i will answer your second question first. it appears likely that he will have the confirmation. these republican senators really worked to get to a place where they feel comfortable testing a yes vote for robert f. kennedy jr.. the senator from louisiana had real concerns about his stance on vaccines. he spent a lot of time talking to kennedy. he talked to the white house and the vice president. he g

it was robert f. kennedy, jr. o was one of the -- one of several cabinet tics testifying this week. the article says that senate democrats on friday called to slow the confirmation process for robert f. kennedy, jr. who is seeking to become the nation's's top health official after his ethics f -- he said he would amend his ethics form for questions on a potential conflict of interest. it centers on questions about kennedy's financial stake in litigation against the manufacturer of a vaccine that protects against the human papilloma virus, hpv. kennedy played a key role in ongoing litigation. saying that merck -- it can prevent cervical cancer and dismissed the allegation as baseless. kennedy on friday said he was having to modify his ethical disclosures to the senate and divest his financial stake in the case. senators say they had not received kennedy's amended form and asked for additional time to consider his nomination, saying the new statements raised more questions about his potential conflicts of interest. r

i want to play you some comments from trump's pick to health secretary robert f kennedy jr. speaking about the abortion pill during his confirmation hearing this week. take a listen. >> president trump has made. >> it clear to me. >> that one. >> of the things. >> he has not taken a. >> position yet on mifepristone. >> he a. >> detailed position, but. >> he's made it clear to me that he. >> wants me to look. at safety issues. >> and i'll. >> ask nih. >> and fda. >> to do that. >> if this administration moves to limit access to the abortion pill, how can states like yours push back? >> reverend al, we're actually already in litigation, which we brought against the biden administration because the current restrictions on mifepristone are too limiting. this is a pill that's been used for decades. it is proven to be safe. and the extra restrictions currently in place, we believe, are unnecessary. the idea that you would take it off the market is ridiculous. there's no scientific basis for it. two thirds of abortions in colorado rely on this medication. if you want to upend our s

senate committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on whether to advance robert kennedy jr.nation to lead the department of health and human services. now, if confirmed, kennedy would run the department that oversees more than $3 trillion in health care spending, including agencies such as the food and drug administration. during his confirmation hearing last week, kennedy junior faced scrutiny from some senators about his past comments criticizing vaccines. >> a local nonprofit had just weeks to find a new home. this time of year, the princess project silicon valley is normally focused on giving free prom dresses to teenagers in need. instead, they're scrambling to pack up and move. thousands come to the santa clara space every year, but now the nonprofit's building has new owners, and they've been asked to leave. >> this is why we exist is for the students, and so we're not going to let them down in some how, some way i'm going to make this work. we're meeting all our commitments. i'm going to make it work. i don't know where yet, but i'm going to make it work. >> for work

they also signed off on robert f. kennedy jr. to lead health and human services.now go to the full vote in this senate. keep in mind that both of these individuals who are now among the closest advisors and potential cabinet members to president donald trump were democrats, not too long ago. then they became independents and endorsed president trump over the summer. becoming an independent in 2022 enjoying the republican party last year during the election process. it is really astounding to see how this new coalition is coming together support president trump in the cabinet meanwhile senate democrats have put holes on the trump nominees to drag this process out because they are accusing the new administration of a authoritarian moves like shutting down the state department's usaid agency and quote purging the justice department and the fbi. watch this. >> we have a hold on all of them and we will continue that hold. i will put a hold on the department of justice nominees if necessary. >> the last several days we witnessed an authoritarian takeover of our federal

senate committee is scheduled to vote on tuesday on whether to advance robert kennedy jr's nomination department of health and human services. now, if confirmed, kennedy would run the department that oversees more than $3 trillion in health care spending, including agencies such as the food and drug administration. during his confirmation hearing last week, kennedy junior faced scrutiny from some senators about his past comments criticizing vaccines. the new department of efficiency has gained access to sensitive treasury data that does include social security and medicare customer payment systems. this move means the department, led by elon musk, could potentially access taxpayer data later on. doge has been assigned to slash the federal budget, budget and senate finance committee member, oregon senator ron wyden, has expressed concern that the department wanted access to the systems in order to illegally withhold program payments. >> honda is recalling thousands of its pilot and acura vehicles for engine, power and software problems. the national highway traffic safety administratio